Computex 2007: GeCube change cooler on HD 2600 XT and double it up
Wednesday 06th June 2007, 07:07:00 PM, written by Rys
GeCube are at Computex 2007 this year showing off a couple of
interesting AMD RV630-based graphics board designs, one with a nice
looking cooler and one that pairs two of them on a single board.
We're used to seeing GeCube roll out Gemini designs at trade shows now, and the dual Radeon HD 2600 XT was promised by them back at CeBIT earlier in the year. Two of the 65nm GPUs are paired on a board and then interfaced with the world via a PCI Express switch. You then get Crossfire using one PCI Express x16 slot on your mainboard. It's up and running on their stand although they're not talking about performance as yet.
You can see it's a dual-slot design with another two DVI ports available via the small daughter PCB near the backplane, and the board requires just one 6-pin PCI Express power input to get going.
There's no work on whether it'll hit retail or what driver support is like, although we presume it's working well at this stage. Jeff Fu's packed-fin cooler with central fan looks sweet.
They also have a single chip HD 2600 XT, running at 800MHz with a custom X-Turbo 2 silent fan cooler. Board memory is 512MiB of fast GDDR4 at 1.1GHz (2.2GHz effective), for a peak bandwidth of 35.2GB/sec via the 128-bit external bus.
Called XHD2600XTG4-E3, you get all the goodies expected of RV630 including HDMI support, UVD, Direct3D 10 support, HDCP and Crossfire support.
We're used to seeing GeCube roll out Gemini designs at trade shows now, and the dual Radeon HD 2600 XT was promised by them back at CeBIT earlier in the year. Two of the 65nm GPUs are paired on a board and then interfaced with the world via a PCI Express switch. You then get Crossfire using one PCI Express x16 slot on your mainboard. It's up and running on their stand although they're not talking about performance as yet.
You can see it's a dual-slot design with another two DVI ports available via the small daughter PCB near the backplane, and the board requires just one 6-pin PCI Express power input to get going.
There's no work on whether it'll hit retail or what driver support is like, although we presume it's working well at this stage. Jeff Fu's packed-fin cooler with central fan looks sweet.
They also have a single chip HD 2600 XT, running at 800MHz with a custom X-Turbo 2 silent fan cooler. Board memory is 512MiB of fast GDDR4 at 1.1GHz (2.2GHz effective), for a peak bandwidth of 35.2GB/sec via the 128-bit external bus.
Called XHD2600XTG4-E3, you get all the goodies expected of RV630 including HDMI support, UVD, Direct3D 10 support, HDCP and Crossfire support.
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