Have a look at this monster

[scorchio]

MSI has showcased a pretty interesting product over at CES and it is the world's first upgradeable graphics card that features MXM interface. MSI Geminium-Go! has two MXM connectors on board to support two MXM-III graphics modules. In this case, this card is currently powered by two GeForce Go6600 on SLI mode with a total of 512MB DDR graphics memory onboard and is upgradeable to the newly launched GeForce Go 7 series like the 7800, 7600 and 7400.

Lol its the biggest card in the world!!​

 

[Master_G]

LMAO look at the size of that, i wondered if someone would use the MXM format for this.

At least it shouldnt draw too much power!!

G

 

[Psykotik]

It's only confirming that the have SLI for laptops nailed tbh, I can't see that card being a major breakthrough as you still need HS/F assemblies for each MXM module making it a dual slot card.

 

[maverik-sg1]

I see a PCI-E power connector on the back but is that an AGP card?

Certainly becomes more interesting if it is

Upgradeable graphics though - you'd never have to upgrade your waterblocks again

 

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

oooooo, me likes

1 thing is, How many people will have problems fitting this in their cases, it's certanly big

 

[nick25]

As Mav said - isn't that AGP? Surely something like this would require the extra bandwidth PCIe provides?

 

[SAS91]

check the connector... definatly pci-e

 

[jellybeard999]

the sign behind says PCIE bus ...

 

[SAS91]

lol thanks jelly make us all like idiots!

 

[Psykotik]

MXM is PCI Express native so I thought it was abvious that it was PCI Express. Have to admit I didn't look at the sign though! :$

 

[maverik-sg1]

Firstly yep 'blushes'

2ndly - it would not be too difficult to make that smaller just looking at the component layout that is - low power consumption is something that everyone should (not really is though) be looking at. Dont forget though, low power = lower heat output too = potentially better scope for overclocking

Also given that its for a notebook - it would be fair to assume that they are looking for single slot (or smaller) cooling too - else your portable laptop becomes a shuttle rig with a flip top screen

So upgradeable (and oh so powerful) PCI-E graphics, low power consumption and subsequent lower heat output - certainly hits all the right notes on paper.

 

[stocky]

Hmm, it's spread out like that due to the thousands of tracks to each component from the processors. The way to make it smaller would be to add additional layers into the PCB, but this is expensive, and is sometimes very difficult to implement.

Saying that though, there was those dual Gigabyte graphics cards, one on the bay at the mo, with dual 6600

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gigabyte-GV-3D1-LIMITED-EDITION-GRAPHICS-CARD-SLI_W0QQitemZ6835354606QQcategoryZ90710QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[nick25]

Would it be possible to run two of these in boards that don't require a bridge?

 

[maverik-sg1]

You can run two dual GPU cards but drivers not ready for sli....... apparently - but with the imminent (as in March/April) release of the special four GPU dell unit - it's only a mater of time before that changes.

One point for dual 6600 - it's only nearly as fast as a 6800GT - so 2x6800GT's in sli will be faster than 2x dual 6600's.

I'd be more interested in using two of the ASUS dual 7800GT