The Asus Muscle Card:

[scorchio]

Enter Asus with its brand new Extreme GeForce 7800 GT Dual. This monster of a graphics chip sports two 7800 GT chips running in parallel. We'd like to note a few things that are special about this card. First, only 2000 samples of this my-card-is-faster-than-your-card graphics board exist, worldwide. Although the cards lack the usual SLI connectors, two of these monsters can nonetheless be combined via SLI. That means we can now achieve Quad SLI with four GeForce 7800 GT chips and a total of 1 GB of video memory.

The game F.E.A.R. benefited the most from Quad SLI. The two Dual cards reached 92 FPS, while the two 7800 GTs together only managed 47 FPS.

 

[justin]

what about the quad mobo, 4 cards of fun

 

[scorchio]

You cannot run all 4 cards at the same time!You can run them in banks of 2

 

[Mindless-Moron]

then whats the point of it?

 

[scorchio]

Dunno might be better for dual core CPU's but the dual core cards never worked in SLI when they first came out but now they do!

 

[Marvt74]

or do they

Linky

 

[boardy]

Hmmm interesting that, only 3 GPUs are found when run in SLi. I'd be interested to see if this is due to the missing bridge or if it's designed like that.

Could be that 1 of the cores is actually the 2 on the other card but who knows

Nice find, I'll be watching this one carefully.

 

[Master_G]

I love the engineering on these cards, i only go single GPU myself, but i love the fact that someone has actually gone and made this kind of thing.

G

 

[scorchio]

It is rather impressive you would a bloody good power supply for 2 of those babies

 

[nick25]

They draw power from the wall though don't they?

 

[Master_G]

Yeah, they do, check out this from tomshardware, seems to beat 256 GTX's in SLI, would be interesting against 2 512 GTX's though. They certainly suck down the juice, and only 2000 have been made apparently according to the end of the article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/14/sneak_preview_of_the_nvidia_quad_gpu_setup/

G

 

[maverik-sg1]

The dual 7800GT is o'old' news - you can buy them now but they are limited to just 2000 production models - it's possible to get 4 running altogether in a mutli GPU setting what holding them back is the BIOS not the board itself and the Nvidia drivers (although novidia are working ona 4xGPU driver olution for the Quad Royal Mobo).

We have heard that effficiency is reduced - but the scores would still trounce anything out there right now - which is why nvidia are keen to make it work.

The ASUS dual 7800GT are power by a separate external PSU so power draw from thw rest of the system is minimal.

Mav

 

[boardy]

Is there any news on this Quad Royal Mobo? I find anything about it anywhere apart from those pics of it from before. Obviously it must exist but where?