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Obi-Wan_Kenobi
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Holy Moley Quad SLI :|
21.10.05 at 14:53:15
 
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
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a Gigabyte BGA 775 P4 mobo with 4x PCI Express x16 :| Holy Moley!


So here the specs of this baby:
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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
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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
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here is where you can choose your screen or use them all at once as one big one:
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here a setup of 10 TFT's 8) freaky huh!
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Quad SLi holy Crap!
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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.
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Re: Holy Moley Quad SLI :|
Reply #1 - 21.10.05 at 15:19:20
 
Not quad sli, just two times SLI. The card's don't work in SLI together.
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Reply #2 - 21.10.05 at 15:22:36
 
it is Quad SLi I read it in the article Wink 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 Wink

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 Wink Quad chip SLi on one board Wink

Anyways it must cost a lot of money and Power also you would need 2 Enermax 660Watt PSU's for such a setup.
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Re: Holy Moley Quad SLI :|
Reply #3 - 21.10.05 at 17:12:28
 
Actually, you are both partially correct... Roll Eyes

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

But @NitroX is also correct - there is no Quad SLI driver support... Cry

...oh well! Tongue
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Reply #4 - 21.10.05 at 17:17:03
 
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
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Reply #5 - 21.10.05 at 20:00:44
 
i think than you can play in 2048x1536 with AA and AF enabled  Grin
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Reply #6 - 21.10.05 at 20:13:15
 
ahuh that's for sure Wink Let's hope that nvidia or Gigabyte come's with a drive for all cards in SLi Tongue
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Reply #7 - 21.10.05 at 20:28:18
 
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
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Reply #8 - 21.10.05 at 22:08:42
 
well that is still very impressive 4 G70's in action oh my god. Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked that would be equivalent to a dual G80.
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