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Recently we made mention about Galaxy working on a Dual GPU GTS 250 Video Card, while we made a slight jest at it due to the fact we figured Galaxy was probably only working on it because they where board it seems the model is very real.

While the card may look like a Dual PCB model now if you look carefully the second PCB is nothing more than a card which holds the three fans that the card uses. It also gives us a fair idea that the card going to take up at least three motherboard slots. When installed you can see the three fans run a blue LED setup and looks fairly nice. See images at the bottom of the page.

As for performance we can see that under 3DMark Vantage it manages to perform a little better than the older single GPU GTX 280. We can see that the card is overclocked to 675MHz on the core and the Shader Clock has been bumped to 1696MHz which helps improve performance overall. Having a look at the Xtreme Tuner HD software which is Galaxys own overclocking program we can see that the GU temp is only 45c, no doubt this is just idle though.

Since the GTS 250 is the highest end GPU that NVIDIA partners are currently working with it comes as no surprise that someone is trying to mix it up a bit in an effort to dump some cores.

We still have no information on any release date or retail pricing but as always we’ll keep you up to date if anything changes.

We’re not sure how popular a dual GPU GTS 250 would be but it’s always nice to see companies thinking outside the box.

If you’ve paid any interest to the release of ATIs new DirectX 11 cards or DirectX 11 in general you would’ve heard about Dirt II getting a DX11 face lift for the PC. With the demo just showing up in the past 24 hours and incorporating two tracks and a built in performance benchmark HD 5000 series users really have something to get excited about.

If you’re not a HD 5000 series user though there’s no need to be disappointed, anyone interested in a new rally game to play is going to want to get in on the action you just won’t be able to enjoy it in all its DX 11 glory.

We’ve got even better news though for those HD 5000 users, if you’re wondering how the games going to run on your new DX11 enabled graphics card you can check out our Dirt II DX11 Performance Analysis where I’ve tested the game at the two highest presets at resolutions starting at 1680 x 105 and ending at that glorious 2560 x 1600 one.

Looking at the numbers you’ll probably find yourself with a smile on the dial so let’s not delay any longer, you can check out our performance analysis here and if you want to grab a copy of the 1.31GB demo you can nab that here.