News NVIDIA to launch Quad-SLI in March

He takes those nda's seriously, I would like to see what he has though.

I think quad sli is a bit much, but I would be all for dual core gpu's and then sli it. I think asus came out with a card with 2 gpu's on it, I didnt think it sli'd though, it still looked better than that 4 card setup.

 

Home heating

Thank you for your humourous input; it gave me a laugh. But why not go all the way and connect the whole lot to your home central heating system.

News announcement - New technology. Canadian computer guru has halved his home heating costs. ROLF!!! I leave you to finish this off.

Touchwood

 

Doesn't work that way. Computers make functional, but highly ineffiecient, space heaters. That said, my room is now quite a bit warmer thyan the rest of my house thanks to my dual Opterons and dual 7800GT OCs. Makes for a nice little hand warmer right next to the keyboard.

I say good on Nvidia for taking a step in a new direction. Sure, it may not be the best path to take in the end, but I applaud them for trying somthing new. Perhaps their expiereice with multiple GPUs will pave the way to a more sensible final implementation.

 

The mind boggles at a water cooling setup for this thing. A serious headache for block designers.

 

I wish they'd focus on improving their cards instead. No doubt they are constantly doing that -- we all know that the 7900 and 7600 are just around the corner -- but perhaps those cards could be made even better if the resources spent on quad SLI had been diverted to further R&D.

To put it simply, I find this ridiculous. It seems as if graphics card makers are constantly looking for ways to increase the price ceiling.

 

That is just silly... I mean, seriously, who needs 4 graphics cards?? It would make your monitor explode because of all the graphical power being forced into it.

 

SLI doesn't scale, so what's the point? Maybe two, but ffs eliminate some bottlenecks and just give me one card.

But to spend the dough for four cards when I can NEVER possibly use/have access to (due to the thing's incapability) all that potential.

- serial_

 

It is even more silly when you consider that each new graphic card has roughly twice the capability of its predecessor (really, check it out). So the 4-way SLI of today is the dual SLI of tomorrow --at twice the price.

 

this is rather silly, this remembers me of some pseudo 1337 CS players that brag for playing CS 1.6 at ludicrous high FPS like 150FPS and say that you are a noob for playing it at rock stable 50 fps.

they should work a way to put multiple cores in one processor or multiple processors on a GC instead of clutering a PC with various GCs and making it a calculating toaster.

or a way to make the manufactoring process cheaper .


edit: this quad sli thing is not as useles as i thought, in a normal sli you could only toast one slice of bread, now you can toast 3 slices at once


edit 2:

i think i dont trust this site:

under a picture it reads

as far as my English goes i think that a fan conector is not also called audio connector.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=907

 

Yes, that white connector is a fan connector, but look to the left, at the four unsoldered round pads. That is where the audio connector would go, but it's not attached because this board does not have HDMI.

 

ROFL!

 

At this point in time this is useless, no game out on the market at this point in time needs this amount of power, two 7800Gtxs would almost be significantly wasteful. Wait until Half life Aftermath comes out and then I would consider getting it. After all I've only got a X800 and it performs well in all games I own!

 

2xGTX isn't useless, you don't get double performance, but it helps gains that extra fps at higher resoultions on CRTs, and enables you to have more AA (although it isn't really needed at higher resolutions, 2x or 4x is enough really).

Quad SLI is is useless right now I agree, Aftermath comes out only a month after quad-sli but even then you still probbably wouldn't need it. With a single GTX I can the original game at maximum with the limited 60fps, I'd say aftermath would be the same.

 

Question is, will that still be true in 6 months? A year? Now that the capability exists, I have little doubt that the games will follow. With today's tech, someone has to take the first step, even if it ends up being in the wrong direction.

 

But what developer would spend all the resources needed to take advatage of Quad-SLI for such a small market? I can't see see many CEO saying, "of course... instead of making the 25th instalment of Tomb Raider for the PS2, wich will easily sell several hundreds of thousand copies (at least), let's get our developer team trying to push the graphical engine to a level that, dunno, perhaps 2-3 people in the world are going to notice..."

Those who have Quad-SLI will be able to power their 30'' Dells pretty fine, and perhaps, they'll be able to use the "Ultra" or "MegaUltra" quality setting in Doom 4 one year before everybody else, but I don't see such a niché market setting trends in the entire gaming industry, just like Porsche and Ferrari set few or no trends in the automotive industry.

Today, the 6600GTs and x800GTO are strong sellers and many gamers are perfectly happy with them. In the mainstream market, x1300, x700, 6600LE and even 9800Pro are still more the norm rather than the exception (heck, many peope haven't yet ditched their AGP systems). Even among the "enthusiast" market SLI and Crossfire seem to be pretty exotic...enthusiast doesn't mean rich and I'd say than the mayority of hardcore gamers target the likes of 7800GTs when upgrading. As such, I see this Quad-SLI thing the same way I'd see a Ferrari F430...it can be the most beautiful thing in the world, but it's Toyota and their Prius who says wich cars we will be driving in 10 years...

 

My quad-sli will get better fps than real life

oh and DRX, those are 4 pin leads for and audio connector. look right next to the fan connector, not the actual plug-in for the fan, the 4 leads are on the PCB

 

Hello Everyone,


My first post here.

I am sorry to see so many negative remarks about this type of technology. If you can not afford it, that does not make it useless. If you do not have an application for Quad-SLI, that does not make it useless. Progress is good, it is not for everyone, but it is a step forward.

This technology is not about making world record benchmarking scores or playing games at insane frames per second. It is not to be used with a LCD with a native resolution of 1280x1024.


I am very pleased to see this offering. For myself, I game at 2048x1536 and current offerings can not provide the image quality I desire. Current offerings can not provide greater than 4x anti-aliasing without a severe perfomance hit. This is where Quad-SLI will shine. I am anxiously awaiting running my current titles with 32x anti-aliasing. This is the image quality I am looking for. It can not be provided with two card SLI at the present time. I know, because I have that setup.



Bigz,

I look forward to reading your results once you are able legally to provide them as I will be visiting often.



Remember, The key to happiness is, knowing what makes you happy. So if this technology is not for you, it does not mean it is bad.

Thank you,
Monnie

 

So any chance of seeing pics showing the difference between like 8xAA, 16xAA and 32xAA? Would be interesting to see if there is any difference that makes it useful for me.

 

I wish I could say I have the 800 watt psu that is required to power a high end quad system. Sadly, this is not exactly sold at the nearby Best Buy.