Holy Crap *drool*

[rspassey]

I just got an email from NVidia:

The most extreme HD gaming experience is here with Quad NVIDIA® SLI™ technology NVIDIA and Dell unveiled the first-ever Quad-SLI PC at the Consumer Electronics Show 2006. Taking its acclaimed SLI technology to the next level, NVIDIA introduced support for not one, not two, not three, but FOUR GPUs. Delivering the most extreme high definition gaming experience available on the PC, Quad SLI features four of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce® 7800 GTX GPUs with an NVIDIA nForce®4 SLI motherboard. Imagine tearing through today’s most advanced PC games with an unheard of 41 gigapixels per second of raw graphics performance, 5.2 teraflops of compute power, 96 pixel pipes, and an astounding 2 GB of on-board graphics memory. Nothing can stop you when you have this kind of hardware on your side. Now imagine yourself doing all of this at extreme HD resolutions with everything turned on. A Quad-SLI PC lets you run your favorite games at an unbelievably high resolution of 2560x1600 while maintaining silky smooth frame rates. In addition, support for a new 32x antialiasing mode and 16x anisotropic filtering enables stunning visuals.

I don't think there are words to describe it - that is just awesome.

Read more HERE

[flawedreality5]

I can't imagine what 32x antialiasing looks like.

[flattius_maximus]

Sick Sick Sick Sick Sick!

[weremonkey]

Originally Posted by ryan124712 I just got an email from NVidia: I don't think there are words to describe it - that is just awesome. Read more HERE

Thats crazy, SLI hasn't even become the mainstream standard, and now their introducing this? On Zipzoomfly.com, they've already added the dual 7800GTs to their catalog.

[flattius_maximus]

Its technology boys! just when you think you've caught up they put you right back on the bottom again

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by flawedreality5 I can't imagine what 32x antialiasing looks like.

Well, SLI AA 16x doesn't look any better than AA 8xS matched with AF 8x from the tests I have done. So, it all seems a little much for me at the moment.

Originally Posted by weremonkey Thats crazy, SLI hasn't even become the mainstream standard, and now their introducing this? On Zipzoomfly.com, they've already added the dual 7800GTs to their catalog.

I remember a little while ago a post displaying how they tweaked two of these to work in the same way as quad SLI... the results weren't that impressive - however, they had to use experimental drivers and stuff. Additionally, there isn't the SLI bridge connector linking the cards with the ASUS ones. I can't quite remember it, but I remember it actually performing slightly worse in a few challenges vs. dual 7800gtx single core cards.

[FLG]

Quite nice, though look at the price...1000$ for a video card is rediculous imo. I can only imagine how mutch the even higher end cards will be.

[blue60007]

Dang nab! Don't pull out your wallets!

[Hi Ho]

Asus already has dual GPU 7800GTX (will be available soon). That seems like a more practical solution, and you don't need a new motherboard if you already have SLI.

[rspassey]

Technology (from a gamers aspect) is way ahead of its time - you can play almost all games now and probably for the next year or so on high res, and all the eye candy with one 7800gtx, even more FPS with dual 7800gtx.

However, for many in the areas of graphical design, they could greatly profit off of quad GPUs and stuff.

[J_ZeFF]

That is unfreakin believable, i thought my one gpu was good enough. And also congrats ryan you posts have finally caught up with the year. Your post right before this hit 2006.

[pibrahim]

Originally Posted by Hi Ho Asus already has dual GPU 7800GTX (will be available soon). That seems like a more practical solution, and you don't need a new motherboard if you already have SLI.

Really? Have you got a link for the dual GTX or any more info (esp. a release date!)...?

[Hi Ho]

I posted a thread on it a while back. HERE is the article. The card in the article is a pre-production model with beta drivers but it still mangages a good performance boost. The cards use external power bricks for power! I don't know about a release date.

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by Hi Ho I posted a thread on it a while back. HERE is the article. The card in the article is a pre-production model with beta drivers but it still mangages a good performance boost. The cards use external power bricks for power! I don't know about a release date.

Weremonkey posted a link to it a ZZF on his post. I don't know when it was released, but it is out now.
The performance technically should be better, but from some of the results in that Article, it was proven that 4 GPUs weren't any better in some of their tests than 2 GPUs in SLI. I would mostly credit that to poor Beta drivers which didn't fully unlock their potential.

[Hi Ho]

I would mostly credit that to poor Beta drivers which didn't fully unlock their potential.

That is my gues too. I'll bet when they get the drivers right that the performance gains will equal the quad cards.

[MakeYourslf2012]

Originally Posted by ryan124712 I would mostly credit that to poor Beta drivers which didn't fully unlock their potential.

What other specs were they using? I bet the RAM and CPU would reach its limitations WAYYYY before even one of those cards could reach it's full potential.

But I have to admit - those cards look wicked. However, theres other things I could drop $ 1K on right now.

[MaxRat]

ryan....

If you like that Dell look at this Dell

EDIT: could you just imagine cold starting the pc and the lights dim for a breif second....till the cards warm up..

[pibrahim]

Originally Posted by Hi Ho I posted a thread on it a while back. HERE is the article. The card in the article is a pre-production model with beta drivers but it still mangages a good performance boost. The cards use external power bricks for power! I don't know about a release date.

Hi Ho - that link only describes the dual/quad GT solution, not GTX. Are you sure that there's a dual GTX card on the way - I haven't heard any mention of it, only Asus' dual GT...

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by MaxRat ryan.... If you like that Dell look at this Dell

That is so HOT... can't wait for a price on that to see if I could configure one for less. I am not a fan of the prices Dell sticks on their high end systems. I like that SDRAMM and 30" monitor...

[TwoRails]

Man-o-man, that'd be one hot system (in more ways than one) -- As soon as I hit the lotto, I'll buy a couple

[MaxRat]

That was posted at another forum I frequent as much as here...

OC'd to 4.26ghz....and 4 pci slots full of cards...man that thing has to be a tank...I wonder how they handle there support and warranty for those pc's?

[tomster2300]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Man-o-man, that'd be one hot system (in more ways than one) -- As soon as I hit the lotto, I'll buy a couple

Agreed. That's the only way I'd spend that much money on something like that. I hope I end up in a lucrative career so I can splurge on new technology...I wish I could buy today's newest technology. Poor college student...

[Mad-Cow]

wow...although there not much a need for that :P too much heat, games nowadays dont got graphics that good, and you dont need anymore FPS then 60, just because if its above 60 its impossible to see the seperate frames with the human eye.

my x850 Pro is good enuf for me thank yea very much :P

i know someone who put 30k into his god damn computer..scary ass ****..have no idea how he managed to do it..is that even possible lol

[rspassey]

It isn't about raw FPS, it is that with a more powerful system (mainly video cards), you can increase AA and AF to get a sharper image. While bumping up the eye candy, you reduce FPS, and a powerful system will be able to allow all the eyecandy, and keep a safe number of FPS so that it doesn't appear choppy or laggy.

[flawedreality5]

Originally Posted by Mad-Cow i know someone who put 30k into his god damn computer..scary ass ****..have no idea how he managed to do it..is that even possible lol

You can go wild on Alienware's website and get up to about 20 grand for a build. I don't know why you would need such a thing though.

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by flawedreality5 You can go wild on Alienware's website and get up to about 20 grand for a build. I don't know why you would need such a thing though.

Just so you can say that you have a 20k PC when get pwned by a 13 year old kid on a 4 year old Budget Dell PC while playing WoW or GuildWars

[aradon]

prfftt why cant they just advance what they have atm?

X-Fire nearly pwns SLI across the board, so why are they doing this??

Hmmmm.....

EDIT: and alienware is just a bling brand, i could build a system that would pwn theres for FAR less, seriousyl

[MaxRat]

Originally Posted by aradon prfftt why cant they just advance what they have atm? X-Fire nearly pwns SLI across the board, so why are they doing this?? Hmmmm..... EDIT: and alienware is just a bling brand, i could build a system that would pwn theres for FAR less, seriousyl

I don't think an x-fire will even come close to one of those cards let alone two of them.....

Those cards handle 2 pci slots on there own....for a total of 4 full slots being used.....

Now where do I put that dial-up modem....

**note to self** when the pc payment gets as high as the car payment...we should look for a new hobby.....note filed....noted and removed....

[aradon]

max you misunderstand me, this new stuff is simply two extra slots, for two extra cards

X-fire = 2 cards
SLI = 2 cards
Quad-SLI = 4 cards

So it cant be compared to the 2 card SLI, my argument was that current X-Fire beats the crap outta current SLI, so my guess is nVidia have whacked out the Quad-SLI in order to maintain their "crown"

as someone put it

its a show-off feature, treat it as such

But of course u r t3h right, with regards to the car bit *cough*

[glc]

Mad-Cow, watch the language, please. We don't appreciate or allow vulgarities in these forums.

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