Radeon 9700 pro with 4-gpu's and 1GB RAM

zerodamage · Nov 10, 2003, 11:20 PM

"THE 64,000-BIT QUESTION, at least for now, is who is faster, ATI or Nvidia? Or, rather, let's say their partners who actually sell cards with their chips. In fact, the truth is that neither the Radeon 9800XT nor the Geforce FX 5950 Ultra is the fastest card on market.

A few days ago our friends at Darkcrow sent us the astonishing specification of what we believe could be a faster bit of hardware, based on recently-discovered fifth generation chips. And this is built for one institution that simply doesn’t care about the cost of the solution.

Nah, not Hollywood. We are talking about the military, the US military, of course, which reckons it does need this visualization solution. "

Source: TheInquirer

MSX · Nov 11, 2003, 05:20 AM

Fuck'n slick! Wish I had more money than brains to create such a overkill video solution. Luckily for us the US military does.

Al_Vampyre · Nov 11, 2003, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MSX
Fuck'n slick! Wish I had more money than brains to create such a overkill video solution. Luckily for us the US military does.

I'd still have one! I wonder if they use Omega's drivers??

BWX · Nov 11, 2003, 11:26 AM

lol- it's got ti 4600 coolers.

I bet that could run Call of Duty without stuttering.

Dyre Straits · Nov 11, 2003, 03:23 PM

I followed a few of those links and got to a site called, E&S, that is supposed to be the original source for the news.

On that site are some links to SIM Demos. Here's one that's quite impressive:

http://www.es.com/resources/53a_overview.wmv

And another:

http://www.es.com/video/what-is-d3.wmv

BUT, I can't find anything there about this card.

Also, Inquirer says something about the 'fastest card on the market'. From what I understand, this super duper card actually is not on the market. Or where is the information otherwise? I can't find it.

jjmd · Nov 11, 2003, 03:32 PM

Very Nice.

Only problem is it needs 2 AGP slots side by each to work as its a double stacked card!

Dyre Straits · Nov 11, 2003, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by jjmd
Very Nice. Only problem is it needs 2 AGP slots side by each to work as its a double stacked card!

If I'm seeing it correctly, it uses a PCI slot next to the AGP slot.

~~craig588~~ · Nov 11, 2003, 03:48 PM

I dont think its acctually transferring anything through that slot, its probably just using it for power.

jjmd · Nov 11, 2003, 03:51 PM

You know Dyre i think your right, its using the pci slot good eye.

**MIG-31** · Nov 11, 2003, 04:03 PM

not that difficult to spot as the agp slot is set further back than pci.

but looking at it it looks like it would be a little cramed for space in a normal atx case.

not to mention the cost.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Nov 11, 2003, 05:19 PM

wow

Nov 10, 2003, 11:20 PM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Radeon 9700 pro with 4-gpu's and 1GB RAM "THE 64,000-BIT QUESTION, at least for now, is who is faster, ATI or Nvidia? Or, rather, let's say their partners who actually sell cards with their chips. In fact, the truth is that neither the Radeon 9800XT nor the Geforce FX 5950 Ultra is the fastest card on market. A few days ago our friends at Darkcrow sent us the astonishing specification of what we believe could be a faster bit of hardware, based on recently-discovered fifth generation chips. And this is built for one institution that simply doesn’t care about the cost of the solution. Nah, not Hollywood. We are talking about the military, the US military, of course, which reckons it does need this visualization solution. " Source: TheInquirer

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jjmd DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In Your Mothers Closet... Posts: 1,081 Rep Power: 0	Very Nice. Only problem is it needs 2 AGP slots side by each to work as its a double stacked card! __________________ [COLOR=blue]Win XP Pro all updates.[/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]Asus Crosshair, Amd 64 X2 6000. 4 GB Cosair Dominator,2 MSI 7900gs 512 mg, 2 raptor 150 gig in raid 0. 22inch View Sonic LCD, 2 HP 16x dvd burners, and some other crap. HE HE HE. [/COLOR]

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MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	not that difficult to spot as the agp slot is set further back than pci. but looking at it it looks like it would be a little cramed for space in a normal atx case. not to mention the cost. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

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MSX Burning the frozen... Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,201 Rep Power: 0	Fuck'n slick! Wish I had more money than brains to create such a overkill video solution. Luckily for us the US military does.

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~~craig588~~ Banned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: In clothing Posts: 3,510 Rep Power: 0	I dont think its acctually transferring anything through that slot, its probably just using it for power.

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