Graphic Cards Gigabyte's Second Dual GPU Board

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Gigabyte is planning another entry into the Dual GPU graphics card market after releasing the 3D1 last year.

The new board, which will probably be called the 3D1-XL, will feature dual 6600 GPUs, unlike the 6600GT GPUs in the 3D1. Using the less powerful chips allows the pricing to be cheaper for a high performance card. Performance is expected to be around that of an X850XT. The card will include 256MB GDDR3 memory, TV-out, VGA out and DVI-I out, as well as a HDTV decoder.

Release is unknown, and pricing is expected to be around $400 (USD).

Source http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050318_123913.html
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
400$ is kinda expensive, considering 2 6600s cost around 100$ each
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Yup but they cant be Sli-ed. Also that statement abt this card being as good as the x850 is BS! :tongue: Prolly gives good scores in synthetic benchies but thats about it. ;)
 
True the 6600s cant be SLI-ed. Considering the 6600GTs were interconnected on a single board with the help of the SLI links, its a marvel how they managed to link the 6600s which do not have any SLI links.

But for 400$, you could easily get 2 x 6600GTs as well as spend the extra on an SLI board and get much much better performance!
Putting this at around 200-250$ would've been a great price point for this card :)
 
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