Behold.... the HD6990

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Behold.... the HD6990

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Hey guys...

heres 2 photos of the upcoming HD6990 dual gpu

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look how thick that thing is :shock: :shock: :shock:
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In that first shot it looks like half of a fat PS2. :shock:
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Looks the same size as the GTX280, 8800GTX and almost any other nVidia card I have ever owned. It simply has a duel slot footprint.
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At the rate these cards are growing in size, pretty soon your motherboard will slot into the graphics card :D
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"we put a computer in your computer so you can compute while you compute"

wonder if you'll be able to brown some toast on that thing as well... :/
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RuadRauFlessa wrote:Looks the same size as the GTX280, 8800GTX and almost any other nVidia card I have ever owned. It simply has a duel slot footprint.
true, maybe its the angle the shot was taken but its a looks a little thicker than a standard dual slot gpu, i mean that thing dwarfs my hd5870 :lol:

rustypup wrote:"we put a computer in your computer so you can compute while you compute"

wonder if you'll be able to brown some toast on that thing as well... :/
:lol: well i reckon you could cook an egg on it, dont know about the toast though, but hey at least you could do half a breakfast :lol:

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The top picture is a old PS2 with red lining. The bottom pic is a VHS video type. Case solved.
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StarBound wrote:The top picture is a old PS2 with red lining. The bottom pic is a VHS video type. Case solved.
:lol: :lol: :lol: well thats a really sexy video tape then.... :mrgreen:

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What the Hell is in that thing! Doesn't look good...probably perform better than it looks. Much better than it looks.
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Very nice! The 7 series will then probably be even bigger!
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