Quad Sli!!!

[Psykotik]

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OMG OMG OMG. We finally have a system that needs a 1 Kw PSU! Apparently this setup will play EVERYTHING at native res on the new Dell 30" panel. I think I may have to sell my bodily organs in anticipation of an AMD version!

Edit:

http://www.extremeprometeia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4187

 

[maverik-sg1]

Be interesting to see how it performs - if only to see certain high scores tumble in the ORB.

As far as dell (and probs anyone else in teh mainstream market) goes, that is uber extreme - it appears that there are two pcb's pairing 2 cards together then each is sli'd.

This should result in the Quad SLI or the ASUS x32 SLI unit being utilised to run 2x sli as the driver support is now there (it would seem) - the sli bridge will need to be addresed but I a sure thats a walk in the park for the right person.

Of course you are talking about £2000 worth of graphics cards right there - I can't see much change from £6000 for that package.

Mav

 

[scorchio]

Truely awesome piece of kit for sure,nice case too and paint job is a bit special.4 graphics its bad enough trying to buy 2.

It all sounds great imagine when it all goes pair shaped.

 

[boardy]

It's 2 Dual Proc cards. From what we've seen with these before I can't see all 4 being used. Personally I think its hilarious and looks hidious but thats just me.

 

[Psykotik]

Mav:

From what I understand... NVIDIA has developed a new chip that acts as a PCI-Express bus splitter - this turns a single PCI-Express x16 lane into one full PCI-Express x16 connection for each GPU. The ASIC then merges the data back into a single PCI-Express x16 connection when the data heads back to the chipset (across the PCI-Express interface).

Obviously I'm drooling over this, and if I won the lottery tomorrow I'd buy one in a heatbeat but the logical side of me is honestly fed up of the patheticaly poor implementation of SLI let alone Quad SLI.

Why manufacturers can't concentrate on multicore GPUs or standardise an architecture that allows programmers to fully utilise the technology instead of using sloppy coding (BF 2 for example needs gutting and redoing IMO) and awaiting the "next gen" to push it to a higher level. It's starting to piss me off to be honest. Unless something major changes then the PC market is going to go tits up very quickly. 4 cards and a processor which you can use as a panel heater in Siberia for about £4000 or an Xbox 360 for £270?

 

[phil123]

surely this would be limited by cpu or ram for that matter?

 

[K404]

3DMark scores should saturate- as we seem to be seeing with the 512GTXs scoring not as high as expected due to CPU limiting.

 

[Master_G]

No wonder it has the flames on the outside, the heat output of that thing must be mental!!!

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