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Hello all I was surfing around and with great schock I came acros this:

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20051004/

[b]Gigabyte GA-8N SLI QUAD
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/4380/quadpcimobo5fe.th.jpg
a Gigabyte BGA 775 P4 mobo with 4x PCI Express x16 :| Holy Moley!

So here the specs of this baby:

Well what Tom's hardware do was this:

PCI-E x16 slot 1: ASUS GeForce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3
PCI-E x16 slot 2: Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600GT Sli board
PCI-E x16 slot 3: Gigabyte 3D1 Dual GeForce 6600GT Sli board
PCI-E x16 slot 4: ASUS GeForce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3
http://img453.imageshack.us/my.php?image=quadpcimobo5fe.jpg

This all Sli'ed up you have a total of 6 GP's with Ton's of power to give you the wildest ride in your life!!! :spitze: And also 8 to 10 screens are possible also woei!

here 8 TFT connectors are visible

here is where you can choose your screen or use them all at once as one big one:

here a setup of 10 TFT's 8) freaky huh!

Quad SLi holy Crap!

Sad but true it's an Intel board I rather see this setup on an Athlon64FX or X2 system would have done way more impact.

Not quad sli, just two times SLI. The card's don't work in SLI together.

it is Quad SLi I read it in the article ;) if you run a game with this setup it must be shocking only not evey game owould support Quad SLI setup. even Gigabyte calls it Quad SLI ;)

okay in way yes Quad is possible:

SLI With Four GPUs?

"While four SLI-capable graphics cards could not possibly be linked using the SLI bridges, a quad GPU setup can be set up using Gigabyte's own 3D1 graphics cards series. As a matter of fact, the revision 2.0 models come with SLI connectors in addition to running two GPUs per card, making these perfectly suitable for a quad GPU SLI setup."

I wonder if 3dfx would have done this in a better sollution if they were still here , hehe ofcourse there is the Voodoo5 6000 ;) Quad chip SLi on one board ;)

Anyways it must cost a lot of money and Power also you would need 2 Enermax 660Watt PSU's for such a setup.

Actually, you are both partially correct... ::)

After reading the article @Obi_Wan is correct - there is support for QUAD SLI... ;D

But @NitroX is also correct - there is no Quad SLI driver support... :'(

...oh well! :P

yeah exactly though the atricle also mentioned a Rev.20 model of this board, let's hope that true Quad PCIe SLI will be possible, I really ask myself how that would perform

i think than you can play in 2048x1536 with AA and AF enabled ;D

ahuh that's for sure ;) Let's hope that nvidia or Gigabyte come's with a drive for all cards in SLi :P

i have read it in the news, the next nvidia forceware will support 4 GPUs...

but at first only 2times that dual 7800GT card from ASUS

well that is still very impressive 4 G70's in action oh my god. :o :o :o :o that would be equivalent to a dual G80.

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