14 DAY TRIAL // If, for whatever reason, you are looking for an Nvidia based card that supports more than the standard two display outputs, then Galaxy might just have the thing for you as the company is currently developing a GeForce GTX-based graphics solution that will feature no less than six video outputs.
Right now, the prototype that Galaxy has presented to Expreview uses the same printed circuit board as its GeForce GTX 460 WHDI graphics card and the four additional mini-HDMI video outputs are provided via a small daughterboard.
This is connected to another small card, which, in turn, is attached to the main PCB via a mini PCI Express slot.
The rest of the PCB doesn't hold any other surprises as it uses a rather standard 4+2 phase power design, 768MB of memory (the final version will have 1GB) as well as dual 6-pin power connectors.
Unfortunately, we don't know how the card actually manages to split the two display links available in Nvidia's GPU to the six display outputs available, but the feat is possible since Zotac has also showcased a similar solution during CeBIT 2011.
In Zotac's case, the company has found a way in which it forced the video card to render the image at a much higher resolution, than that used by the games run or the Windows 7 desktop, which was then split among the connected displays.
However, this method has a series of drawbacks and it requires special drivers in order to function so it's possible that Galaxy has found a much better way of achieving the same feat.
Together with the four mini-HDMI ports provided by the attached daughterboard, the graphcis card also features a dual-link DVI and a DisplayPort connector.
Since the board presented here is just a prototype, there is a strong chance that the final version will be powered by a GTX 560 Ti or some other, more powerful, GPU. (via VR-Zone)
