notoriousformula
09-20-2003, 12:00 PM
Check out this Amazing Multi-monitor video card(Colorgraphic build, powered by ATI)..the 8 Way version(4 M9 chips) supports upto 8 monitors.
Posted by Charlie Demerjian, µ article These cards support 4 or 8 distinct monitors, and can make a video wall out of a single AGP slot. The cards, quite a bit smaller than a Radeon 9800, have a number of M9 mobile chips on them. As in a laptop, the target audience for these chips, they are each capable of driving 2 separate monitors per chip. The four way version has two M9s in it, and the eight way has four chips.
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Another new technology: PCI Express cards
Posted by Charlie Demerjian, µ article
Moving to the other side of the ATI booth, they had all the big toys. The first thing to catch your INQman's gimlet eye was the Half-Life 2 movie that would not loop on their monitor. It was worth the wait for the extremely nice booth staff to re-run it. Like most, Half Life changed the way I look at games, so I was quite mesmerized by the second installment. Wow.
How mesmerized? So much so that I didn't notice the fact that is was running on a closed box, one that contained a new, undisclosed Intel chip, running on a new and undisclosed Intel motherboard, and pushing the data across a PCI-Express bus. I didn't even ask if I could open the box, I knew better.
PCI Express was another topic. There was an ATI card that plugs into one of those elusive slots hidden in the booth.
Now, contrary to what you have heard elsewhere, this was not a super duper next generation chip, R360, R400, or better. This was simply a test chip for debugging the PCI-Express functionality, nothing more. That super chip was in the box running the Half Life 2 demo. If you don't believe me, look at the size of the heatsink and fan, they are way too small to be even a fully clocked 9700/9800 class chip.
While you can't see it in the pics, a peek under the heat sink from the side also made it clear that it was rather small for a next gen part.
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Source: µ (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11660)
Posted by Charlie Demerjian, µ article These cards support 4 or 8 distinct monitors, and can make a video wall out of a single AGP slot. The cards, quite a bit smaller than a Radeon 9800, have a number of M9 mobile chips on them. As in a laptop, the target audience for these chips, they are each capable of driving 2 separate monitors per chip. The four way version has two M9s in it, and the eight way has four chips.
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/atione.jpg
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/atitwo.jpg
Another new technology: PCI Express cards
Posted by Charlie Demerjian, µ article
Moving to the other side of the ATI booth, they had all the big toys. The first thing to catch your INQman's gimlet eye was the Half-Life 2 movie that would not loop on their monitor. It was worth the wait for the extremely nice booth staff to re-run it. Like most, Half Life changed the way I look at games, so I was quite mesmerized by the second installment. Wow.
How mesmerized? So much so that I didn't notice the fact that is was running on a closed box, one that contained a new, undisclosed Intel chip, running on a new and undisclosed Intel motherboard, and pushing the data across a PCI-Express bus. I didn't even ask if I could open the box, I knew better.
PCI Express was another topic. There was an ATI card that plugs into one of those elusive slots hidden in the booth.
Now, contrary to what you have heard elsewhere, this was not a super duper next generation chip, R360, R400, or better. This was simply a test chip for debugging the PCI-Express functionality, nothing more. That super chip was in the box running the Half Life 2 demo. If you don't believe me, look at the size of the heatsink and fan, they are way too small to be even a fully clocked 9700/9800 class chip.
While you can't see it in the pics, a peek under the heat sink from the side also made it clear that it was rather small for a next gen part.
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/atithree.jpg
Source: µ (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11660)