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Shorter design of Quad SLI cards on their way |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 14 April 2006 |
Believe it or not, NVIDIA partners have managed to get and sell a few Quad SLI cards already. These cards will be known as long Quad SLI cards and they will certainly not fit in most retail end-user cases. The cards went to the system integrators who built them in their machines. Don't get over-excited as we are speaking here about a few dozen cards per partner. NVIDIA just told its partners that another, shorter version of the card is coming by the end of the month and that there will be substantially more of these type than the first long Quad SLI ones. At this time NVIDIA struggles to ship any high end chips and cards.
 Shorter design of Quad SLI cards on their way
The retail only cards are branded as GeForce 7950 GX2. We remember that NVIDIA used this 50 suffix with its GeForce FX chips and had cards such as GeForce FX5950 and FX5750 but this suffix actually meant that the card is bridged to PCI Express, as the cards without suffix, GeForce FX5900 was AGP only. The cards should be priced at €800 to €900 a piece and we don't think there will be too many of them. The price is high but it is not that bad, compared, say, with the price of a single chip GeForce 7900 GTX that can easily go over €600.
So Quad SLI, a silly concept but certainly the fastest graphics delivery mechanism around, is about to become a reality. At least NVIDIA is making sure that any customer interested in the GX2 video card will be able to use it in their system by making sure the size of these cards will be reduced.
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