With good sources we learn more details about wyczekiwanej, dual graphics card GeForce 9800 GX2. Recall that yesterday NVIDIA once again odsunęła its premiere. The latest deadline debut card is scheduled for the second half of March. Despite everything is already making some details about future competitor Radeon 3870 X2.

Yesterday, for Fudzillą appeared on the network several messages about potential problems with the weight of the card. It turns out that her weight may be a problem for the safety of the remaining components of the computer during its transport – PCI-Express slots. Although the wyrwanymi, połamanymi sockets had already face. Meanwhile, many would point out that the card GF 9800 GX2 may weigh even more than a kilo. That’s too much. Recall that the 8800 GTX Ultra on average weighs around 760 g.

The second case concerns a warm-up and potential “prądożerności a card. Concerns about the power of a single platform built GX2 may be justified if we take into account the design of the card. We were able to determine that the platform podkręcanym processor based on Intel Quad Core QX9650 (1333×12) and pojednyczym GX2 may reach the peak load (eg test 3D Mark’06) even 320-340W, and the temperature above 60 * C. If doliczymy to the power consumption of the standard 24-inch LCD display (1920×1080), to gain time to 440W. In the “Idle” obviously these results will not be so high – an average of 190-200W for the same unit. Recall that the GeForce 8800 GTX Ultra with the same configuration gets to 300W peak. With podpiętym LCD panel does not reach even 400W.