Gigabyte Dual GPU: nForce4, Intel, and the 3D1 Single Card SLI Tested
by Derek Wilson on January 6, 2005 4:12 PM EST- Posted in
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The Test
These SLI systems can pull quite a lot of power, so we employed our 520W and 600W OCZ Powerstream PSUs to put voltage to our parts. We needed to use the 66.81 ForceWare drivers for the Intel system in order to get SLI to work.Our single card NVIDIA 6600 GT tests were run on the AMD Athlon 64 platform.
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 Intel Pentium 4 EE 3.4GHz |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2 (AMD) 2x 512MB PC2-4200 (Intel) |
| Hard Drive(s): | Seagate 120GB 7200RPM IDE (8MB Buffer) |
| Motherboard & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | Intel Chipset INF 6.2.1.1001 NVIDIA nForce 6.31 (Beta) |
| Video Card(s): | NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Gigabyte 3D1 SLI |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA ForceWare 71.20 (AMD) NVIDIA ForceWare 66.81 (Intel) |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP2 |
| Motherboards: | Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI Gigabyte GA-8AENXP Dual Graphic |
| Power Supply: | 520W OCZ Powerstream PSU 600W OCZ Powerstream PSU |
The GeForce 6800 Ultra numbers shown in the graphs are included as a reference point from our previous SLI tests, just to show where single card, single GPU performance compares to the 3D1 and SLI solutions. Since the previous tests were performed on an A64 4000+, the numbers are just to be used as a reference rather than a direct comparison.
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reactor - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
so basically it performs the same as sli and for the same price as the sli setup, but only works with gb boards. wouldve like to see some power/cooling comparisons and pics although ive already seen it.in the end id rather get a 6800gt.
mkruer - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
Just wait we will see Dual Core GPU's soon enough.yelo333 - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
#5,#7,#9 - you've hit the nail on the head...Esp. for something like this, we need those pics!
For those who need to slake their thirst for pics, just run a google search for "gigabyte 3d1" - it turns up plenty of other review's w/ pics.
Paratus - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
Speedo - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
yea, not a single pic in the whole review...semo - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
yeah, it's bad enough i can never own onewe want to see some pretty pictures!
miketheidiot - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
I agree with #5wheres the pics?
pio!pio! - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
#4 dual core video cards in SLI on a dual core cpu dual cpu mobo w/ quad power suppliespio!pio! - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
no pics of this card in the article??Gigahertz19 - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
It's only a matter of time until we see dual video cards that each have dual cores in a system...>>Homer Simpson>>ahhhhhgggggaaaahhhhhhhhh Quad GPU's :)