T_Flight


How many of these dual GPU cards have been utter failures? Answer: ALL of them. By their very nature they are a design flaw. VERY FEW

They are piling 2 gpu's ina  confined area and dumping that heat into a HSF that already isn;t sufficient to cool these cards (thus why so mnay of us run aftermarket water), build themselves of a pre-equipped bottleneck by overload a single 16x slot with 2 GPU's when you can already split that up by using two cards in 2 ports which we already know scales extremely well now with these i7 rigs thanks to the X58 chipset. VALID POINT

To get them to stay within the power spec they automatically have to gimp the two GPU's knowing they will exeed the 300 watt spec if they don't. VALID POINT

We then come to drivers which have always been problematic with these cards, and eventhough NVidia is king when it comes to drivers, they have never been able to get these cards to run right with proper drivers do to the defects and the design flaws from an engineering standpoint. MANY people have never had driver problems (me included)

NVidia already has single GPU solutions that Completely Destroy the Competitions Dual GPU, so why go down that road? It makes no sense. This has been a fad with no real gains in technology that should've faded away a long time ago. Doubling the number of GPU's =/= putting it all on one die. It never will. It's inefficient, is a thermal runaway heater in which these cards already run too damned hot without water (even the HSF idea should've disapeared years ago), and try as they might the software driver dev's cannot fix a engineering design flaw. may be true of competition, but i have vantage scores of a GTX295 beating a single GTX580.

If you need two GPU's, that's what motherboards that support SLI are for, and you buy 2 cards. the 2 card solution or even a single card solution is gonna beat out the dual shoehorned GPU solution every time, because they don't come pre-equipped with those design flaws. a dual gpu card is cheaper than 2 separate cards in sli, thats why people buy them. and again, i have vantage scores of a 295 beating a top end card 2 generations later.

Boogyman93

If it was a GF104 then it would have been a 490 not a 590. It's either 2 GF114's or 2 GF110's.

clo007

Well this is also an eVGA custom card, not an nvidia card, so it could be the eVGA 'I am God' card.

HeavyHemi

Zillerz

This is probably an EVGA-Made GPU

[link=http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?high=&m=783550&mpage=1#783550]http://forums.evga.com...550&mpage=1#783550[/link]

Why are you linking back to a thread that links back to this one?  There are already pictures...all over. Just link the video

http://www.youtube.com/wa...pJEeOM&feature=sub

brcromer

What about two 580's?  I know the power draw from one 580 is a lot but if they shared resources on a dual card maybe it isn't so bad.  After all the 570 is essentially the same card as the 480 but Nvidia tweaked the components to draw less power.  Perhaps something like that happened on the dual card.  Didn't Galaxy have a dual 470 card?  It might happen with a dual 580 card.  I don't know I'm not a computer engineer.