Dells Quad SLI now with Conroe!!

[maverik-sg1]

[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica]Dell Inc.’s new generation gaming system, which the company unveiled early on Thursday, will sport four GeForce 7900 graphics processors along with dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo-series chip, it was revealed during the E3 exhibition.

Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of x86 microprocessors and the exclusive supplier of central processing units (CPUs) to Dell, has demonstrated Dell’s new XPS-series system at the E3 exhibition in Los Angeles, California. The new Dell XPS Renegade 700 will feature Intel’s Core 2-series processor along with four GeForce 7900 graphics cards in quad SLI configuration.[/FONT]

It is not known if this is based on and Intel or Nvidia chipset motherboard at this time - if it is Intel then it's the first real indicator of SLI being made available to Intel chipsets in teh mainstream rather than via selected few under NDA.

 

[AstralWanderer]

Dell^H^H^H^HAlienware appear to have managed to water-cool Quad-SLI also (see here). Shame about the crummy plastic casing though...

 

[BigAndy]

Dell^H^H^H^HAlienware appear to have managed to water-cool Quad-SLI also (see here[/URL']). Shame about the crummy plastic casing though...

Looks pretty cool :O.

 

[maverik-sg1]

Yeah but thats teh A64/FX version, sorry but bares no relevance on this post - question was how are they (Dell) supplying QuadSLI systems with Conroe CPU's - the reason I ask this is that we all knwo that there are a set of modded drivers that have been made available to a known few but in General Nvidia GPU drivers installed onto an Intel 955 or 975 chipset have the SLI feature locked.

I am not aware of Conroe ready Nvida based motherboards - the question is that is the Dell driver a 1st release of the offical Nvida driver that has the SLI feature unlocked for Intel base motherboards - or do Del have a Nvidia Based motherboard that supports Conroe CPU?

 

[Highland3r]

There are Nvidia based boards on the way for Conroe AFAIK, not sure how willing Nvidia would be to enable SLI on Intel chipsets if they had their own out which supported SLI... It's kinda shooting yourself in the foot a little!

 

[maverik-sg1]

There are Nvidia based boards on the way for Conroe AFAIK, not sure how willing Nvidia would be to enable SLI on Intel chipsets if they had their own out which supported SLI... It's kinda shooting yourself in the foot a little!

I agree, but Nvidia probably had to have some sort of concession to make so that Intel allowed Nvidia a license you make chipsets for Intel CPU's in the first place. I suspect that deal was 12-24month exclusive to Nvidia for SLI/Intel chipsets, but allowing Intel to offer SLI ready chipsets at the end of that period.

The biggest issue Nvidia have with that is that their first Intel based motherboards are GASH But that meant they missed an opportunity to stamp their authority on the Intel market place before Intel had their own Multi GPU solution.

You recall, it was VIA that 1st encroached this license 2-3 yrs ago and is still reeling from the court costs and as such we don't hear much from the anymore (although you can never write them off).

So the question remains unanswered at present - but I think you can all understand where I am coming from on this

Cheers

Mav