9800 GX2 Official!

[Scotty]

I wish, its just so unbelievable...

That card would NOT fit in that case.

edit: more pics

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Card has HDMI on, looks about 1-2 inches longer than a 8800GTX
TBH i think it looks hot on that motherboard, especially in SLi.

[luciusad2004]

Dude... Those cards are so big that THE MOTHERBOARD looks like an add-on. But i guess when a person is going for that much graphical power... the mother board probably is an add on in their mind

But honestly... It covers all of the expansion slots so you couldn't use any other cards and i don't even want to know what kind of a power supply you need to push that.

Edit: I'm full of it... I know i would buy one if i had the money.

[dexaroni]

Damn.. the cooler looks real nice, and only 450 is the expected release price.

I will have to see what else is coming out, I may just wait for the Gforce product line refresh (different naming scheme, but Geforce 10 equivalent) before I buy a new card.

[The boy 4rm oz]

No way in hell lol. There is no way they would make a card that big, it wouldn't fit in any case. Look at it, it's twice as wide as a standard card and looks twice as long, easily 60-70 cm long judging on what I can see there.

The 9800GX2 is only meant to perform 30% better than an 8800ULTRA. I am happy with my 8800GTX and wouldn't get this card because it would mean a case upgrade and another PSU upgrade, my GTX barely fits in my LEXA as is.

[Scotty]

Sooner or later people will have to be buying bigger cases. Im pretty sure ill be safe for a while. Im not going to get one of these, until my GTX stops being able to play games a native res, nice settings and a playable frame rate. (Excluding Crysis)

[The boy 4rm oz]

I am going to get a second GTX a few months after the 9*** series GPUs are released and run it in SLI with my other one, that will cap off my gaming experience for a few years until I have to do another full upgrade. A PhysX card wouldn't go a stray either lol.

[crenn]

Hmmm.... anyone notice the optical out?

[Scotty]

Yea. HDMI and Optical? Odd, very odd.

[crenn]

I'm wondering if this thing has a built in sound card!

[The boy 4rm oz]

The whole sound thing will be the same as the Radeons, on board sound.