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boroboi · 08-04-2009, 22:57

Still, it has no Video out, doesn't have driver support for games, which is why it won't work with games and it won't work in conjunction with any other GPU for games support.

It's a dedicated GPGPU, it sits in your PC useful for Folding and CUDA computing aswell as other GPGPU related tasks.

All the "Supercomputer" board is mainly for enthusiasts who want their own number crunching rigs, it's basically for the more money than sense people. You'll have a super computer in you're own office, practically.

Either way, for gaming it's completely pointless. Vista/W7 has support for a maximum of 4 GPU's for support in SLI, or rather, that limitation is DirectX based.

Of course it will support your gamer's GPU's, but other than those reasons ive stated, any normal gamer has no reason to buy one. I think i read a few months ago it has 7 PCI-e interfaces, which is overkill for anyone who doesn't use this for a folding rig or other GPGPU tasts.

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boroboi Inactive Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Middlesbrough [TS10] Age: 40 Services: TT Fibre Large 78mbit Posts: 967	Re: Which Board Member is going to be first? Still, it has no Video out, doesn't have driver support for games, which is why it won't work with games and it won't work in conjunction with any other GPU for games support. It's a dedicated GPGPU, it sits in your PC useful for Folding and CUDA computing aswell as other GPGPU related tasks. All the "Supercomputer" board is mainly for enthusiasts who want their own number crunching rigs, it's basically for the more money than sense people. You'll have a super computer in you're own office, practically. Either way, for gaming it's completely pointless. Vista/W7 has support for a maximum of 4 GPU's for support in SLI, or rather, that limitation is DirectX based. Of course it will support your gamer's GPU's, but other than those reasons ive stated, any normal gamer has no reason to buy one. I think i read a few months ago it has 7 PCI-e interfaces, which is overkill for anyone who doesn't use this for a folding rig or other GPGPU tasts.