Sunday, September 26th 2010
Galaxy Designs Mysterious GeForce GTX 460 2 GB Card with Mini-PCIe Onboard
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 graphics processor (GPU) can be crammed into some very short GPUs, as has been implemented in various designs. Galaxy has taken advantage of this, and designed a GeForce GTX 460 2 GB (256-bit GDDR5) graphics card with nearly the same length as other high-end GeForce 400 series SKUs (ballpark 10-inches), with room towards its connectors for an additional PCI-Express device. Just near PCI-Express x16 interface, there is a mini PCI-Express x1 slot, that technically can take a mini-PCIe SSD or any other PCI-E device. While Galaxy is notorious for coming up with the most wacky yet intriguing designs the most plausible utility we see of this mini-PCIe slot is perhaps an optional addon board with a smaller GPU for processing PhysX, or a mini-PCIe TV tuner (notebook grade). Aside from this, connectors include a DVI, a DisplayPort, a mini-USB (female), a switch, and a 10-pin header right behind it. Galaxy will detail this mysterious card further soon, the company told press that when released, it will be an "unprecedented design".
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43 Comments on Galaxy Designs Mysterious GeForce GTX 460 2 GB Card with Mini-PCIe Onboard
knowing galaxy you will prolly have the option of popping a cover (kinda) then insert some sorta card
i like the idea, especially if they would make a cheap gt240 to add on to the thing
What is this I don't even...
Galaxy is taking too much guys out of the mad houses into their development departments. I bet it will be like that dual GF100 they showed at Computex. Yeah, hell of a great idea (maybe, could had gone with the GF104...:ohwell:), but I'm not seeing it getting ready for production (I think there was a dual GTS 250 too). Maybe it ended up not being cost effective, or effective at all.
Can't blame them for trying and being innovative (and being awesome at it). Maybe this is just ahead of it's time (read: Voodoo 2 SLI).
would be nice to see a list from them of suggested products, or even bundle the card with products that are right for it, like a killer NIC, wifi card, phsyx card, SSD etc.
Nonetheless, intriguing. Keep us posted!
www.guru3d.com/news/computex--galaxy-customizes-everything-with-a-gpu-on-it/
www.hardocp.com/article/2010/06/01/galaxy_streams_desktop_to_your_tv
What exactly is the benefit of having a wireless nic on your gpu?
an iphone/ipad app? what the hell for?