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
I would find a use for it, for people with mATX or mITX (like me), not having to have a USB adapter is a big bonus.Edit: Whoops, never mind. Not what I thought it was.
I could be wrong, seems like that's what the article was talking about.
www.hardocp.com/article/2010/06/01/galaxy_streams_desktop_to_your_tv
Well, it's nice that you're coming up with new innovative stuff.
And this?Will need to keep running into another room to pause the video, or deal with menu-selection. Oh man, that menu will be a nightmare. Player in one room, infra remote in same room, TV in another... can't see what you're doing...
Aside from all of that, since when is having fewer cables a bad thing?
This because the innovations of galaxy are a bit of too imaginative
making them not functional or not that great
Think about it:
They have already made physx chips inside the pcb of the card.
The only thing that makes me think to be putted inside that x1 is a sound card
This because instead of being used by a south bridge, which is slow,
it will pass from the x1 to x16 and than to northbridge, making less usage from southbridge
This idea is really stupid because the people who made mobos why didn't they connect
the sound card to the northbridge, but putted it in southbridge?
ABSOLUTELY STUPID GALAXY!!!! BRAVO!!!
Any of your innovations did make it to the market??? (except the removable fan of graphic card)
useful things? HDTV tuner/capture card would be nice.
I don't know if you are aware, but some people actually buy discrete sound cards for better audio quality (for numerous reasons), instead of relying on the onboard that might not be so good. So with this idea, those users could add the card onto the GPU slot and be able to save another slot (and space) for another card, possibly a GPU for SLI (marketing trick).
Useless comment is useless.
After reading it i want to comment smth
I mentioned the sound card because it is the most "HEAVY" thing that slot would add
and it can make more space for the bridge. This is an idea, just like galaxy with the slot
Not only people buy it for better audio quality, but i know that they don't want it integrated
because it will make the bridge "heavier" and after reading a lot of reviews about sound cards
it turned up that the card itself used cpu if it was integrated. So putting it in that slot
would make no use at all for the cpu, more space and it can be utilized like a gpu+spu (my idea)
to make programs of music which virtualize the beeps of sounds into heavy graphical virtualizations (like winamp, but much more complex) and don't tell me what i said is not a unique idea!
I wouldn't see it as the device that would be the most heavy (assuming you're talking about bandwidth), but one of the heavier ones. Considering what you've said (the GPU+SPU in one slot), that would be a nice feature. But by music programs turning sound bits into visualizations is what most (if not all) media players do and, if you want something more advanced, try AudioSurf.
See our press release here:
www.galaxytech.com/en/newsview.aspx?id=671
I can assure you you will see reviews on this soon (one for Techpowerup may be? I need to contact our Europe representatives...)
And for the Dual Fermi and PhysX stuffs, I could not comment much on why we cancelled our product, all I can say is our design is ready, our PCB is ready, even our cooling solution is ready. However "someone" is stopping us from making it to the market.....