MSI has displayed something as unusual as an upgradeable graphics card at Computex and the foundation of this card is NVIDIA’s MXM technology (Mobile PCI-Express Module). MXM is intended for portable computers to make it possible to switch and use different graphics circuit with the same motherboard through a specified standard. Similar to how Intel use the Socket 775 interface for all of its newer stationary processors. MXM has hardly been a big hit but MSI seems to have found other interesting areas of use. We have earlier seen a MSI Geminium-Go which was a prototype using two GeForce 6-based MXM circuits on a PCI Express graphics card.
These circuits were connected through SLI and when put next to eachother ther card was almost as long as a Voodoo 5 6000. No doubt just a prototype but now MSI has displayed a similar solution in a more convenient format where it has attached two GeForce 7-based MXM chips on each side of the graphics card in an integrated SLI solution. This card is also called Geminium Go and the question is if this is the card MSI is actually thinking of shipping out.
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