I have a Fortron source bluestorm 500 watt PSU. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104934

Will it be able to handle this graphics card?

I'm rather disappointed that the 'SLI acceleration that is fully transparent to software' that was rumored didn't happen. Would have been really compelling to have an SLI 'single card' that showed up as one uber-GPU to everything in the system this side of the drivers.

Ok so we are almost done with DX 9... and i will repeat where are DX 10 cards...

Tom's shows that the GX2 and X1900XTX are neck and neck in Lost Coast at 1600x1200 (4X/8X) while TR has the GX2 well ahead at the same resolution but 4X/16X. Is this a result of the 16X or am I missing something.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/05/geforce_7950_gx2/page8.html

Why does MSI brag about quad SLI with their cards?

http://www.msicomputer.com/msiforms2/NX7950GX2.asp

Once again I have to laugh at the fools who spent $1000 and more to run SLI when 6 months later or so a better card that is just as fast or faster comes at half the price. I have a SLI based motherboard but would never consider going that route. This product however seems pretty nice for the price. Shopping aound I have found it for a little over $500 bucks. Damn good price. If I gamed as much as I used to, I would pick up one of these puppies. However I don't play many games anymore and my 7800GT is fine when I need to.

*Rick James*

SLI is a hella' of drug.

In all likelihood, the deal with no Quad-SLI is so that Alienware/etc. have a headstart in the market. This would be an incentive to these system builders to use Nvidia cards rather than ATI. And as much as you might think we are Nvidia's 'best customers', we're not. It is the system builders.

for just 629$ on newegg.com, thats an amazing piece of hardware with a combined 1GB Gfx ram and two monstrous GPUs.

Assuming this wouldn't void your contracts with Nvidia, why not ask them or go to another hardware review site to get your hands on another GX2 card and see if you can do quad-SLI yourselves. Write your experiences and see if you can get it to work, what issues you run into (just heating and bios updates, or do the drivers really not support it) and give us the performance numbers. That would be awsome!!!

Seems the Red team also wants people to sell their collective souls to Satan for Multiple card setups. This one for Physics in a crossfire setup with 3 cards methinks.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA3OSwxLCxoZW50aHVz...

Wow, those power numbers are something. Especially considering that it's on the nVidia board that pulls more power.

quad sli here, still sketchy.
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=1927

It's ok, but there's little stopping you from running 2 7900gt's.

The difference at load compared to the 7900gt is 71watts. pretty much the same amount pulled by a 7900gt anyway.

dx10 won't matter with this card
pretty sure i saw it on TR that balmer indicated it could be as far back as feb next year for vista
by which time you'll most likely see the next gen of cards popping up
plus older gen cards will still be compatible with vista
just not on the best setups is all
and i haven't heard of a game coming between now and vista release that will be dx10*
dx10 compatible maybe, but not dx10

*note i don't look much up on games

SLI-like limitations for multi-monitor use that may turn some power users away.

That's pretty much the only detourent I see to an otherwise well done product. This is how SLI should have been packaged from the start.

I'm curious just how well the GPU that's sitting on the inside is being cooled. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of space for it's fan to pull in any good amount of air.

BTW, Am I the only one that can't see how those 2 cards are linked together by looking at the picture provided on page 2?

I had to re-read the bit on multi-display and multi-gpu mode being mutually exclusive. Does this means that, because both outputs come from GPU#1 (from the figure in the article), multi-display actually turns off GPU#2?

Is it generally true in the "traditional" SLI configurations that SLI necessarily means only one display?

Would be nice to see GX2 comapred to pair of 7900GT and 7900GTXs.

Wonder if having two cards on an sli ready mobo using two PCI-E slots and more power amounts to any performanace gains/losses over GX2 config.

Do you have to restart when enabling SLI for the GX2?

If you didn't then Nvidia should think about doing app association stuff so when a game .exe is launched sli is turned on but when the .exe is no longer being run it switches back automatically.

i can see the massive amount of dust caught in the pcb sandwich already....

The GX2 seems like a pretty damn good product, the extra performance (and lower power consumption) certainly is worth the extra €100 over an XTX.

Things that put me off buying one of these cards, though:

- not as good AA and no HDR+AA (compared to ATi, of course)
- as a multi-monitor user, the whole switching SLi on/off thing seems rather bothersome, also, it kills one of multi-mon's greatest feats, being able to keep something else in view during a gaming session
- (to a lesser extend) the physcal arrangement will make watercooling a bitch

Again, a nice product, but probably not for me.

Wow, I never realized about the multi-display thing.

No way I would go SLI just for that. I go from games to dual display desktop several times a day. I would never be willing to manually switch like that. That's ridiculous...

Well, hot darn! That's one sexy card. I was expecting it to suck up more power than the amazon like most real SLI setups..but it's rather...civilized. Although I won't be satisfied until I've seen it compared to SLI and Crossfire setups, I am far more attracted to the idea of this card, rather than a real SLI setup.

Still, no matter how cool it runs, I feel that the cooling arrangements (From the looks of them) lack any real innovation. It's just...same 'ole same 'ole. Kinda sad considering you're shelling out over $600.

Well those are sure some impressive numbers.Is that faster than 2 card SLI or Crossfire?

Thanks for the hard work Scott.
Nice review, but I gotta agree that this is no biggie.

Reminds of the AMD 4x4 announcement.

It’s nice, but nothing evolutionary, since we had dual core, dual Opteron systems for a while.

We have had SLI around for a while now, and two DX9 cards in SLI are still 2 DX9 cards in SLI, just in a single slot.

If I were Nvidia, I would have saved this announcement for my DX10 cards to really make a big splash.

Hmm... I bet that Nvidia forbid TR from expressly saying that the GX2 will work with ATI chipsets.

I see this thing on a shelf next to my voodoo 5500 in two years.

Woohoo
/me starts reading.