Dual Fermi

Supra said:
That might be the destruction of ATI
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Hahahaha!!!!!!!!! It looks to be a monster card, but a 5970 will still hang with it. It may not even get released. Nvidia didn't even design this...galaxy did. Even if this dual 470 comes out, ATI can drop prices on the 5970 and the whole lineup. The reason why they STILL haven't dropped prices on the 5000 series is because sales are doing well. When they start to decline, I think ATI will cut the prices and make their lineup look better.

I don't really care for one side or the other, I just want the prices to come down.
 
I just don't want to think of the power requirements and the heat that bastard would produce. I won't touch any of the current Fermi cards because they're way too fucking hot and require too much power. Did you see the estimated power draw of 430 watts? Even the 5970 is under 300 watts. That's just insanely inefficient.
 
Most test show the 480 at around 93c (199f) under load @ around 70f ambient. That's not too good.
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Personally, I think that's atrocious. I don't want to do liquid cooling just to keep my GPU at a reasonable temperature. Shit, I've seen reviews of the 480 with liquid cooling running at 53c idle and 61c under load. WTF? Even with the stock cooler on my 5870 it was 30C idle and 48C under load. The performance is at least comparable in most cases to a 480, so why would I want something that runs at close to 20c hotter with liquid cooling. Bah, that just makes no sense to me.

If Nvidia can up the performance gap by more than 10% from the 5870 and make it cooler and less of a power hog I'd gladly get the next card, but not the current version of Fermis. They can suck my hairy asshole for all I care.
 
Im running a Ultra 1200w so I could run 2 of these if I wanted too.
 
Umm you have to also consider Supra, you have to power you CPU, Mobo, HDDs, DVD drives, Fans, any lights, and anything else you might have runing (USB ports for example). Also your 1200w PSU cannot supply a full 1200 watt load, it would either not reach 1200 watts or it would die quickly as PSUs are not meant to run at max load for any extended period of time, just during startup. A car amp is a perfect example. I have a 1000w amp but if I even run 700watts for too long it will overheat and turn off. I can run about 450w across in bridge mode fine constantly.
 
It is a prototype, and just a PCB. I highly doubt anything but a tri-slot cooler would be able to cope with cooling it down, unless it's downclocked or something.

It will never materialize most likely, and if it does, I'd highly recommend liquid on it and nothing else if anyone even considers that monstrosity.

I personally greatly dislike SLI-type arrangements and would rather have the top-of-the-line GPU than two mid-grade SLI'd GPUs. With the new almost 2x improved framerate scaling across the board though, it's starting to look a lot more attractive.
 
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