You thought Quad SLI was impressive,well then look here.

Octo-SLI Ladies and Gentelman



That's 4 x Geforce 7950GX2 , 8 7900 cores, 4GB of graphics memory.

I wounder what Motherboard & PSU that is .

P.S I don't own this system but I wish I did.

I'd guess it's an nForce Pro chipset (2200?), rather than nForce4/5. Wouldn't you need 32 dediced PCIe lanes for that, just on the video?

The PSU says Tagan on it, if that helps. Probably an 800W or thereabouts. The 580W model they have listed is 20A+20A, and I don't think that's enough for such a display of graphics firepower.

Edit:
It looks like they quietly launched a 900W and 1.1KW model.

Edit2:
The blue PCB on the motherboard usually indicates a Gigabyte board.
Edit2.5:
Gigabyte GA-8N SLI Quad Royal. nForce4 SLI Intel Northbridge, with nForce4 SLI AMD "Southbridge"

that image took effin forever to load.. :S

Probably one of the early dell prototypes with 4x cards..

I wish that we know what type of Bench scores were obtained, and the power consumption

Originally Posted by CarterEVIL

I wish that we know what type of Bench scores were obtained, and the power consumption

None, because the current drivers won't work. They barely work on Quad SLI...

Doubt it works though.

http://www.excaliberpc.com/Gigabyte_...id-561958.html
Just over a hundred bucks for the motherboard! Pretty cheap- just wish it wasn't P4-only. No Core2, no AMD, nothing good.

Also makes me wonder if two sets of SLI would work on it. As in, 7900GTX+7900GTX, and then another pair of 7900GTX+7900GTX, separately. Finally a way to run multiple monitors in SLI?

Edit:
The Quad Royal only offers four x8 slots electrically when they are all used, not full x16's. Does the 7950GX2 work in x8 slots, or does the second PCB go unfed?

Originally Posted by J-Mag

None, because the current drivers won't work. They barely work on Quad SLI...

QUAD-SLI works well apprently on a few newer gamesL

F.E.A.R.
HL2 E1
Quake 4
Doom 3

I'm sure there are a few more, but the point is that it does work, just needs to support more games, and hopefully in a month or two it will support most games that can get a boost from it. Oblivion, now if they can get that to work, that would be a big plus.

Pretty impressive.

Originally Posted by heatlesssun

QUAD-SLI works well apprently on a few newer gamesL

F.E.A.R.
HL2 E1
Quake 4
Doom 3

Yes, I am aware. However Nothing works in Octal SLI which is my point. Also I think the description "barely" is appropriate because 4 games is barely anything IMO. Although BF2 supposedly works as well.

Anyway, I don't think Quad-SLI works on Episode 1, just regular HL2.

Ummm, is it me or does that image scream BS....Check out the PCIe slots, you can see two of them, yellow, but not the ones that are on the bridged cards...i.e. two cards are plugged in and two cards are standing upright just because of the bridging connectors?

???

Originally Posted by Weazmeister

Ummm, is it me or does that image scream BS....Check out the PCIe slots, you can see two of them, yellow, but not the ones that are on the bridged cards...i.e. two cards are plugged in and two cards are standing upright just because of the bridging connectors?

???

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/...ard/index.html

I linked the Gigabyte board above.
As for the cards being physically unsupported, check the 7950GX2- that's how it works normally. Only the top card is plugged in, the other one gets all of its info through a bridge.

Originally Posted by lloose

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/...ard/index.html

That's all nice and good, nowever the picture above is NOT that board Check the yellow PCIe slots, as I pointed out earlier vs the "teal" slots on the QuadRoyal.

It's the same board. The yellow in the first picture is not a PCIe slot, it's the SATA connectors- you can't see any of the slots in the super-populated board.

Originally Posted by Weazmeister

That's all nice and good, nowever the picture above is NOT that board Check the yellow PCIe slots, as I pointed out earlier vs the "teal" slots on the QuadRoyal.

Yes it IS that board. The Blue SLI connectors are from gigabyte, the PCB is blue (hint: gigabyte) and thats a stock intel cooler being used, you can see half of it.

And too bad Octal-SLI doesnt work. There are NO drivers for 8 GPU's in SLi and nvidia has no plans of supporting it either. Thats only useful for 16 monitors.

Originally Posted by Dillusion

And too bad Octal-SLI doesnt work. There are NO drivers for 8 GPU's in SLi and nvidia has no plans of supporting it either.

Says who?

Ok, then please show me on this picture where there's a YELLOW connector by the PCIe slot...

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/...ard/index.html

Waiting...(hint: on the Gigabyte board we are talking about it's RED)

Yeah, yeah- I know, my MS Paint skills need work.

But incredibly cool nonetheless.

I was talking to a friend of mine when the 7950s came out about how long it would take someone to do this... I am actually suprised it took so long

I don't know much about the SLI on this board, but I wonder if it could run the cards as a dual SLI setup, that way you could have dual quad SLI... That way you could play games and still be supported by NVIDIA, but at the same time be able to do massive video processing on a quad monitor setup. Can you say "play BF2, FEAR, Q4 and DOOM 3 at once?"