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World Exclusive: MSI Geminium-Go (MXM SLI Card)

By Vijay Anand - 14 Jan 2006

Results & Final Thoughts

Results

Installation was painless and everything went just as well as enabling SLI on any regular desktop system and graphics card combo. Just as we expected, 3DMark05's shader intensive synthetic tests are an excellent test of any graphics engine and having a second engine made available via SLI, performance increased almost linearly with about 80% improvement.

However in actual gaming tests, utilizing existing game engines, we saw noticed that there were other processing bottlenecks in the system which capped the MSI Geminium-Go with a pair of GeForce GO 6600 MXM graphics modules at only 30% improvement when compared to a single MXM module at work. However it's no fault of the card, but rather the limitation of this low-end GPU design and the game engine's emphasis too.

Well, we've just demonstrated that MXM for the desktop and MXM SLI are totally feasible and they perform just as well as the desktop versions, minus the heat, noise and lofty power requirements. While it has proven to work swell and has many positive attributes, it is unfortunately not the best alternative for the cost conscious folks until this idea progresses mainstream. The industry has hinted of the possibility of developing upgradeable graphics cards just as how one would upgrade their CPU and whether this turns out to be true in the future, the MSI Geminium-Go is definitely the fist to peddle a concept that's somewhere along that line of thought.

MSI Geminium-Go, the world's first MXM SLI card for the desktop (and it works swell too).

Looking forward in the near timeline ahead, since MXM SLI has been successfully demonstrated, MXM CrossFire shouldn't be too difficult to conjure, and it might just be around the corner. So watch out for any such announcements as well as the interesting developments taking place within the PC industry as a whole at the moment.

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