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quad sli again

God, can you imagine the heat 4 7800gtxs would put out? The things take up half the friggin motherboard! And watercooling 4 gpus wouldnt be to cheap either. But then again, if you have 4 7800gtx, you're a filthy rich bastard. ;)

It's a very nice development, nontheless.
 
holy crap where do ppl get these from? with all of thos upsidedown questionmarks?
 
I dont think the four of them are linked. IT said 2 7800GTX 2 7800GT


2張GeForce 7800 GTX及2張GeForce 7800 GT顯示卡組成的4顆GPU平台
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notice that there are 2x gtx and 2x gt. also i thought the gigabyte prefixed amd boards with "g8n" , not intel.

very truly yours,
politenessman
 
also i read last week gigabyte out of mainboard business. i got the gt/free evga mainboard. evga should be out of the mainboard business.

very truly yours,
politenessman
 
http://www.nforcershq.com/article3038.html

(from May 2005)

The board, currently named "GA-8N-SLI Quad", shows four PCI Express slots that can be occupied by SLI-compatible graphics cards. According to sources, Gigabyte found a way to combine two nForce4 SLI chipsets on one platform. Interestingly, the board integrates two different versions of the chipset - the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition (Crush 19) represents the Northbridge, the version for AMD processors is used as Southbridge.

The board will only be able to carry Pentium processors using the socket 775. Sources told us that Gigabyte is currently testing the 4-GPU board and is likely to enable two configurations. First, the GA-8N-SLI Quad will be able to work with two Gigabyte 3D1 dual-GPU cards and make an additional three PCI Express slots available. The second option is to use single-GPU SLI graphics card in each of the four slots. This translates to a support of either two x16 or four x8 PCI Express slots.

Other features of the GA-8N-SLI Quad include four slots for DDR2 memory for a total of 4 GByte memory, four SATA II ports, ten USB 2.0 and three IEE1394a interfaces.
 
yea i know but somewhow the jetway boards work, and the evga do not. check the thread in motherboards, and check out the evga community. also, chance ecs makes boards for jetway.

edit - sorry. gigabyte ok. chaintech out of mainboard business


very truly yours,
politenessman
 
If I were gigabyte I would develop a quad pci-e board for crossfire not SLi, considering that crossfire supports (theoretically) four gpu's with the supertiling rendering method. Perhaps gigabyte will release modified drivers that will do sfr by splitting the frame into 4 sections, or maybe a combination of sfr and afr. Still those both seem like clunky solutions to me.
 
Erasmus354 said:
If I were gigabyte I would develop a quad pci-e board for crossfire not SLi, considering that crossfire supports (theoretically) four gpu's with the supertiling rendering method. Perhaps gigabyte will release modified drivers that will do sfr by splitting the frame into 4 sections, or maybe a combination of sfr and afr. Still those both seem like clunky solutions to me.
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Why do you feel they should just develop for ATI and not nVidia? Why not both? I think it might be a possibility. The only thing that might be holding back development is the lack of Crossfire products availability from ATI.
 
I thought NVIDIA was going to do away with the "SLI Bridge".

If all of the communication and work can be done in software over the PCIe bus, you could then run 4 together :eek:
 
The issue isnt connecting them together, the difficulty is getting the cards working together. As I remember AFR deffinetly cannot be used in more than a 2 card configuration due to latency and synching issues. SFR would be possibile but you can forget about load balancing 4 cards without a significant performance penalty. A tile based system like the Xfire would be much more efficient.
 
For gaming, I can't see how can anyone really make use of 4 x 20 - 30" LCD, not to mention 8.

For 2D or 3D work, it is not necessary for anyone to monitor or really make use of 8 monitors. I mean, there is an upper finite limit of what you really need.

Then there is the issue of heat inside that box and the size of power supply, more like 1000W. I can't imagine the electricity being used daily on a computer like that.

In the end, I believe it is overkill and unnecessary for most people.
 
Happy Hopping said:
For gaming, I can't see how can anyone really make use of 4 x 20 - 30" LCD, not to mention 8.

For 2D or 3D work, it is not necessary for anyone to monitor or really make use of 8 monitors. I mean, there is an upper finite limit of what you really need.

Then there is the issue of heat inside that box and the size of power supply, more like 1000W. I can't imagine the electricity being used daily on a computer like that.

In the end, I believe it is overkill and unnecessary for most people.
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WHAT?!?!?! I can't hear you over my 1000Watt power supply and 4 x 7800GTXs. :D
 
What is overkill? When you have more than you need? In that case, a single 7800GTX is overkill, or any 7800 for that matter. I guess technically it is when you have so much more than you need that the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. In this case, it's how much electricity, heat, and noise can you provide, dissipate, and deal with or cover up. I, for one, am a firm believer in overkill, and if I had the $$, and this quad SLI thing actually turned out to work, I would invest. To hell with heat and electricity and put some sound deadening foam on that beast - behold the ultimate gaming rig!
 
Hrm... a single 7800 GTX has already made 6800 (any variation) in SLI obsolete. And the latter solution is whole lot more expensive as well. No one in his right mind is going to buy a second 6600 card to run both in SLI when a single 6800 card will give better performance and less hassle. And now they expect people to buy 4 $500 videocards? It's a lot more sensible to wait for the next generation of GPUs while lamenting the inability to run your games at the highest settings possible.

A fool and his money are soon parted ^_-
 
Intel S775 + C19 + 4 video cards :rolleyes:

That's smart

I also love how once you have all those cards in there, it's impossible to have anything else in the motherboard :p
 
i dont know if all of you saw this pic but heres another :)



IMHO i think its preety stupid to have 4 GTX's. its not like were playing Doom 10 :rolleyes: :D
 
WTF. This is not oftOCP!

THE [H]arder the [H]ardware the BETTER!

To all who are saying it's overkill, PLEASE DO NOT VISIT THIS FORUM ANYMORE! YOU ARE oftcore!


I WANT 10xSLI BITCHES! WOOOOOOOO! ;)
 
Yeah, 10 dual core 8800 GT's, with 2 GHZ memory and a 512 bit bus with 128 pipelines and 4 GB of QDR 5 memory, and a 1 GHZ core speed.
 
Nice but where would you put your sound card on that board? I mean if you have 4 7800's you surely aren't going to game with onboard sound are you? I could buy a car for the price of the motherboard and the 7800's.
 
Happy Hopping said:
For gaming, I can't see how can anyone really make use of 4 x 20 - 30" LCD, not to mention 8.

For 2D or 3D work, it is not necessary for anyone to monitor or really make use of 8 monitors. I mean, there is an upper finite limit of what you really need.

Then there is the issue of heat inside that box and the size of power supply, more like 1000W. I can't imagine the electricity being used daily on a computer like that.

In the end, I believe it is overkill and unnecessary for most people.
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heh you havent seen some the rich flight sim geeks set ups have you 4 makes a nice cockpit easly 8 would just make it better
 
whoami said:
WTF. This is not oftOCP!

THE [H]arder the [H]ardware the BETTER!

To all who are saying it's overkill, PLEASE DO NOT VISIT THIS FORUM ANYMORE! YOU ARE oftcore!


I WANT 10xSLI BITCHES! WOOOOOOOO! ;)
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Why?

Not only will 4 GTXs cost almost $1500-2000, but this is totally useless. What game cannot run perfectly with ONE GTX at 1600x1200 with full eyecandy?

It looks to me like a lame excuse to buy nVidia.
 
I doubt a single person on these boards will SLi four of them together. Maybe, maybe, some1 will SLi dual core cards just to say they can. But I mean come on. Totally worthless.
 
Mister E said:
I doubt a single person on these boards will SLi four of them together. Maybe, maybe, some1 will SLi dual core cards just to say they can. But I mean come on. Totally worthless.
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might be worthless, but it'd be [H]arder than any machine out there.
 
whoami said:
might be worthless, but it'd be [H]arder than any machine out there.
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Are you suggesting that you would do this to be [H]ard or just for bragging rights?
 
Shameless Liar said:
Are you suggesting that you would do this to be [H]ard or just for bragging rights?
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Both.

You going to go through every thread about their 3dMark being low or couldn't reach a certain score and talk them down about bragging too?

Cause this is what you're obviously trying to attempt with me.

I must be in the wrong forum, this is [H]ardForums right? Kind of thought I was logged on oftPunanny.com

Why are the quad-GTX getting some of you ladies all flamed up? Either you are ati f*.anboys or just don't like nvidia's SLI capabilities :)
 
illgiveumorality said:
I don't care about SLi, I want all my power on ONE card that DOESN'T raise my electrical bill and blow my fuses
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OK....Hate california if you lived here, socal power outages go out all the time in summer due to "AC abuse". Heh.

I doubt 4xGTX will blow out a fuse, and if it did, take pics :eek: :p
 
Shameless Liar said:
Why?

Not only will 4 GTXs cost almost $1500-2000, but this is totally useless. What game cannot run perfectly with ONE GTX at 1600x1200 with full eyecandy?

It looks to me like a lame excuse to buy nVidia.
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F.E.A.R.

Astaroth
 
I thought that with two sets of SLI videocards you'd only be able to power two seperate monitors, not all 4 running a single monitor. Given the manner in which SLI works, wouldn't they have to recode how the computer handles what part of the screen each card renders? That's why I assume this is only useable if you're running 2 monitors and want SLI powering each one indivudually.
 
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