X-bit labs

Started by: zenex | Date 03/26/08

Comments: 3 | Last Comment:  03/26/08

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1. Definitely, we live weird times. We don't want mutants with 3 GPUs, but flawless drivers and software optimization.

2. It could be valuable as a GPGPU add-in unit for HPC computing purposes.

3. Very interesting! It like Asus getting ready for the R700 and NV100 gpus! Both companies have not shared how they going to link all small gpus together either onboard ring bus, HT 3.0 bridges, or Quick Path bridges.

Personally I believe with the speeds of PCI-E 2.0 soon PCI-E 3.0 the graphics card should be removed from the PC all together. Could have a external pci-e 2.0 backplane that has slots for MXM models. The card will combine all the data and send it back over a 16x Pci-E 2.0 cable to a card to a PCI-E external card. Would be less heat in case and motherboards can become smaller. When needs jsut to do browsing you can turn off the modules so one card is on, when gaming turn on the amount of graphic models you want/need at the time, would be better then having 4 cards always on runnign in the pc. I'm not 100% sure if pci-e external is hot-swapable.

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