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Anyone up for a dual-GPU graphics card?
2004-12-16, 5:05 PM #1
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041216_115811.html


I *sooo* want that thing.
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-12-16, 5:07 PM #2
I could've just bought a Voodoo 5 5000.
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2004-12-16, 5:16 PM #3
Things are starting to get crazy. We have dual-processor motherboards and now we're about to get dual-core processors.

Then we're going to dual video cards again, and now someone introduces a dual-core video card.

I can see it now, dual platform hard drives. Want RAID but don't have the capability? Just get a hard drive that has two sets of platters and two write arms and BAM.

Well, if you can't move forward, move sideways.
<Lyme> I got Fight Club for 6.98 at walmart.
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2004-12-16, 5:33 PM #4
I want two of those card on an SLI. :cool:
2004-12-16, 5:33 PM #5
Quote:
Originally posted by JudgeDredd
Just get a hard drive that has two sets of platters and two write arms and BAM.


Wasn't that the way things were back in the old days? I remember taking apart a computer in the mid 90's... the hard drive had 5 or 6 different platters. The thing was massive.

But really, I guess this is just all preparation for quantum computing. Where each atom is a processor and a storage device.
Stuff
2004-12-16, 5:46 PM #6
Quote:
Originally posted by JudgeDredd
Things are starting to get crazy. We have dual-processor motherboards and now we're about to get dual-core processors.

Then we're going to dual video cards again, and now someone introduces a dual-core video card.

I can see it now, dual platform hard drives. Want RAID but don't have the capability? Just get a hard drive that has two sets of platters and two write arms and BAM.

Well, if you can't move forward, move sideways.


A. Dual Processor systems have been around for a LONG, LONG time.

B. Same with video cards, just not consumer level.

C. Hard drives already have multiple platters, that's how they hold so much.

D. Having 2 drives in one drive and running raid would defeat the purpose. It would still be prone to failing, which would destroy the entire thing, leaving redundancy out as a bonus. Also, since it is only running on one cable, it would be limited by the cable speed also.

Sorry, just had to nit-pick :D
2004-12-16, 5:54 PM #7
He said two sets of platters and two arms. Two hard drives sandwitched together with probably a RAID controller. Although a good idea, it wouldn't be practical. It wouldn't be much cheaper than getting two drives and a RAID controller, and two drives gives you flexibility in what you want to do with them.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2004-12-16, 7:06 PM #8
Wow, now I can run Word in 64bit graphic mode with all the paperclip's animations on!


I'll let you all read my opinion:
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2004-12-16, 7:09 PM #9
Well actually they have many arms to read the many platters :P
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2004-12-16, 7:37 PM #10
...two sets of arms then!
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.
2004-12-16, 10:01 PM #11
Quote:
Originally posted by Emon
...two sets of arms then!


Seriously though, you think they would've got it by now.
<Lyme> I got Fight Club for 6.98 at walmart.
<Black_Bishop> I am Jack's low price guarantee
2004-12-17, 3:53 PM #12
Quote:
Well, if you can't move forward, move sideways.


That's a worthy quote if ever there was one.
I bet you think that's funny, don't you.

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