DiegoB
19-05-2004, 20:45:10
Notícia retirada do site da Adrenaline:
Uma das empresas mais consagradas quando o assunto é PC's montados especificamente para games e gamers, a Alienware, anunciou que estará lançando em junho a linha Alienware ALX. Nessa linha um dos modelos, esse previsto apenas para o segundo semestre de 2004, virá com uma mainboard baseado no Intel Tumwater X2, sendo que a mesma terá 2 slot PCI Express 16x. Com uma tecnologia desenvolvida pela própria Alienware, será possível juntar o poder de duas placas gráficas através de um software também desenvolvido pela empresa, e de acordo com a mesma, nada parecido com o antigo Sli da 3Dfx, até porque as placas trabalham junto via software e não uma sobreposta na outra como no caso do modo Sli. Abaixo um pouco a respeito pelas palavras da própria Alienware.
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Forget About 3dfx’s SLI
Despite of some earlier assumptions, Alienware’s technology is claimed to be proprietary, patent-pending and has nothing to do with existing techniques, e.g. 3dfx SLI.
“Alienware is using an exclusive software solution as well as a video merger hub. Both solutions are patent pending and were developed in house by Alienware. In addition Alienware has developed a dual PCI-Express graphics slot motherboard (X2). This motherboard is exclusive to Alienware and is also patent pending. To Alienware’s knowledge, no other motherboard currently supports dual PCI-Express graphics slots,” the company’s spokeswoman said.
The dual graphics cards option will not require driver support from the graphics card manufacturers. The system was designed to be stand alone using Alienware’s Video Array (including software and merger hub) and X2 mainboard.
Video Array Technology divides the screen in multiple parts, in contrast to 3dfx’s SLI that required every single line to be rendered by different graphics card. In the case of using two video cards, the screen is divided, vertically, in two parts: one video card renders the upper section, and the second video card renders the lower section.
Video Array uses a ‘Predictive Load Balancing’ technology that evaluates on each frame the processing load for each GPU. Based on this, it ‘predicts’ the load distribution for the next frames, and adjusts the ‘Split Ratio’ accordingly. While the system always starts at a 50% split, as the content of the screen changes, the ratio changes accordingly (75%/25%, 85%/15%, 80%/20%, etc., etc). This logic enables Video Array to maximize the use of the graphics processing power from each card.
Preliminary testing of dual graphics cards shows performance gains of more than 50% compared to single graphics card configuration. The more graphics intense the application, the more performance increase gained.
The X2 mainboards will be based on Intel E7525 (Tumwater) core logic and besides 2 PCI Express x16 slots as well as 2 sockets for CPUs will also support dual-channel DDR2 memory, Serial ATA ports with RAID capability, PCI-X support, Gigabit Ethernet and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.
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Imagina com 2 6800 U, o estrago que não ia fazer hein... junto um bom processador, boa mémoria, qualquer jogo rodaria em very, very....very high..... hehehehee :D
Agora imagina o preço para montar um PC com isso...:eek:
Falow!!!
Uma das empresas mais consagradas quando o assunto é PC's montados especificamente para games e gamers, a Alienware, anunciou que estará lançando em junho a linha Alienware ALX. Nessa linha um dos modelos, esse previsto apenas para o segundo semestre de 2004, virá com uma mainboard baseado no Intel Tumwater X2, sendo que a mesma terá 2 slot PCI Express 16x. Com uma tecnologia desenvolvida pela própria Alienware, será possível juntar o poder de duas placas gráficas através de um software também desenvolvido pela empresa, e de acordo com a mesma, nada parecido com o antigo Sli da 3Dfx, até porque as placas trabalham junto via software e não uma sobreposta na outra como no caso do modo Sli. Abaixo um pouco a respeito pelas palavras da própria Alienware.
----------
Forget About 3dfx’s SLI
Despite of some earlier assumptions, Alienware’s technology is claimed to be proprietary, patent-pending and has nothing to do with existing techniques, e.g. 3dfx SLI.
“Alienware is using an exclusive software solution as well as a video merger hub. Both solutions are patent pending and were developed in house by Alienware. In addition Alienware has developed a dual PCI-Express graphics slot motherboard (X2). This motherboard is exclusive to Alienware and is also patent pending. To Alienware’s knowledge, no other motherboard currently supports dual PCI-Express graphics slots,” the company’s spokeswoman said.
The dual graphics cards option will not require driver support from the graphics card manufacturers. The system was designed to be stand alone using Alienware’s Video Array (including software and merger hub) and X2 mainboard.
Video Array Technology divides the screen in multiple parts, in contrast to 3dfx’s SLI that required every single line to be rendered by different graphics card. In the case of using two video cards, the screen is divided, vertically, in two parts: one video card renders the upper section, and the second video card renders the lower section.
Video Array uses a ‘Predictive Load Balancing’ technology that evaluates on each frame the processing load for each GPU. Based on this, it ‘predicts’ the load distribution for the next frames, and adjusts the ‘Split Ratio’ accordingly. While the system always starts at a 50% split, as the content of the screen changes, the ratio changes accordingly (75%/25%, 85%/15%, 80%/20%, etc., etc). This logic enables Video Array to maximize the use of the graphics processing power from each card.
Preliminary testing of dual graphics cards shows performance gains of more than 50% compared to single graphics card configuration. The more graphics intense the application, the more performance increase gained.
The X2 mainboards will be based on Intel E7525 (Tumwater) core logic and besides 2 PCI Express x16 slots as well as 2 sockets for CPUs will also support dual-channel DDR2 memory, Serial ATA ports with RAID capability, PCI-X support, Gigabit Ethernet and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio.
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Imagina com 2 6800 U, o estrago que não ia fazer hein... junto um bom processador, boa mémoria, qualquer jogo rodaria em very, very....very high..... hehehehee :D
Agora imagina o preço para montar um PC com isso...:eek:
Falow!!!