The First Single-PCB GTX295 From Inno3D Unearthed

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: jaredpace
Here is Saaya from XS's "confidential" photo of a single PCB GT300 GX2 Prototye (It's not real ;p). He is poking fun at how absurd the PCB layout is on the Nvidia cards compared to the organized streamlined 4870x2 and 4890 reference PCB's:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6229/dualgt300.jpg

mounting holes all over the board
a mounting hole on the Pcie slot, and one on the sli goldfinger
a smileyface of mounting holes to the right of the 2nd gpu
GDDR3 ram all over the place
DVI on the top of the card, and rear
PCI-E power connectors on the bottom of the card
GPUs mis-matched and not aligned ....

heheh

I fail to see how http://www.techpowerup.com/rev...70_X2/images/front.jpg is more "clean and streamlined" than http://en.expreview.com/img/20...5/12/GTX295_card_3.jpg

Sorry, but this sounds like like stupid troll BS to me.

Bingo.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: jaredpace
Here is Saaya from XS's "confidential" photo of a single PCB GT300 GX2 Prototye (It's not real ;p). He is poking fun at how absurd the PCB layout is on the Nvidia cards compared to the organized streamlined 4870x2 and 4890 reference PCB's:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6229/dualgt300.jpg

mounting holes all over the board
a mounting hole on the Pcie slot, and one on the sli goldfinger
a smileyface of mounting holes to the right of the 2nd gpu
GDDR3 ram all over the place
DVI on the top of the card, and rear
PCI-E power connectors on the bottom of the card
GPUs mis-matched and not aligned ....

heheh

I fail to see how http://www.techpowerup.com/rev...70_X2/images/front.jpg is more "clean and streamlined" than http://en.expreview.com/img/20...5/12/GTX295_card_3.jpg

Sorry, but this sounds like like stupid troll BS to me.

The single pcb 295 has the 2nd gpu under the 8pin power connector, it has more to do with enthusiast cooling pots, fitting the mounting holes with aftermarket cooling, stuffs like that. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: jaredpace

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: jaredpace
Here is Saaya from XS's "confidential" photo of a single PCB GT300 GX2 Prototye (It's not real ;p). He is poking fun at how absurd the PCB layout is on the Nvidia cards compared to the organized streamlined 4870x2 and 4890 reference PCB's:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6229/dualgt300.jpg

mounting holes all over the board
a mounting hole on the Pcie slot, and one on the sli goldfinger
a smileyface of mounting holes to the right of the 2nd gpu
GDDR3 ram all over the place
DVI on the top of the card, and rear
PCI-E power connectors on the bottom of the card
GPUs mis-matched and not aligned ....

heheh

I fail to see how http://www.techpowerup.com/rev...70_X2/images/front.jpg is more "clean and streamlined" than http://en.expreview.com/img/20...5/12/GTX295_card_3.jpg

Sorry, but this sounds like like stupid troll BS to me.

The single pcb 295 has the 2nd gpu under the 8pin power connector, it has more to do with enthusiast cooling pots, fitting the mounting holes with aftermarket cooling, stuffs like that. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

Ok, I can see it from that perspective. Looks like aftermarket cooling would require investment into a cooler designed specifically for the card (sounds pricey) or just mounting water blocks via two mounting holes instead of four.