Nvidia to launch Quad-SLI on 22 March

[oshua]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/23/nvidia_quad_sli/
Quad SLI will soon be dominating the scene. Get your visa and mastercard ready!http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/GoriLLakoS/7900GTDual.jpg

[vapb400]

that is ridiculously large.

[nn_step]

Lets just Pray to god that it doesn't require Buying Dell

[Sneaky]

its gonna require taking out a second mortgage on your house though...

[Charloz24]

This is getting ridiculous............ I was kinda hammering myself when I bought my X800XT for 450$...just for playing game.

Now it will be over 1000$ :slapass:

[Bar81]

YAWN. Crossfire/SLI is useless for most people and this is pretty much useless for all people besides the benchmark whores.

[Xenogias]

hahahahahahhaha
too right.
bourgeoise geeks take note.

[Kunaak]

crazy...

I wish I had a few of those :)

[physics_geek]

I will pass.
IMHO, this can no longer be called Xtreme. Madness(stupidity) is a more suitable term.

[biohead]

...

they ran out of inspiration.

[DilTech]

This just means that the world records will now literally be untouchable unless you have ENTIRELY too much money in your pocket.

This is one of the reasons I quit benching some time ago...

[Starscream]

meh i wonder why so many people react this way about this.
its not like Nvidia or ATI are forcing you togo SLI/crossfire ot quad SLI.

and yeah stepping up development to make 1 powerfull GPU instead of needing 2 or 4 to get that power does suck but look at it like this:
if they wouldnt go SLI/crossfire then theyd have to step up development wich would make those so powerfull GPUs more expensive.
this way it is ur choice fi u wanna buy 1 good GPU or spend way more on dual or quad.

that and that cooler looks sexeh and i wonder the temps on both GPUs.

btw Dil grats on ur 1000th post

[biohead]

even with 2 cards we're pretty CPU bound. These sort of setups are for native resolutions only, so only for those with a giant LCD screen and a mighty mighty PSU. Those are not gamers. More bragging rights on a LAN? Hey look at my 4 videocards! Two of 'em don't even get used and one is almost choking!

blahh. Hardwareworld to be filled with filthy rich kids just to be part of it. Or something. Yada. U know what I mean.

[Starscream]

even with 2 cards we're pretty CPU bound. These sort of setups are for native resolutions only, so only for those with a giant LCD screen and a mighty mighty PSU. Those are not gamers. More bragging rights on a LAN? Hey look at my 4 videocards! Two of 'em don't even get used and one is almost choking!

blahh. Hardwareworld to be filled with filthy rich kids just to be part of it. Or something. Yada. U know what I mean.

:rolleyes:
k lets go to a lan find a rich guy beat him with a stick then u take 2 and il take the other 2 :D

but yeah benefit from it will b minimal.

[dsecrieru]

Why don't they make dual core GPUs and shrink the board size? Memory would still take some space, but still...

[OmegaMerc]

why is that picture a 3d drawing of the card?

[madman2233]

what a coincident. these'll be a great 18th birthday present for myself.

ha, yeah right; if i start saving now, i'll have just enough money to buy the heatsink, maybe a RAM chip or two.

[IYP]

wow! ive always wanted a video card thats bigger than my motherboard!! YAY!!!

[[XC] Lead Head]

why is that picture a 3d drawing of the card?

Its not a drawing...Its the actual card...


The three inner GPUs are gonna burn up.

I can see this having the highest temperature related failure rate in the history of GPUs

[nn_step]

wow! ive always wanted a video card thats bigger than my motherboard!! YAY!!!
Meh.. I perfer if my graphics cards actually it into my case...

[RTB]

Now's a good time for AMD and Intel to start releasing Quad CPUs... or the power of these cards will be wasted for the most part. I wanna see benchies and actual heat output.

[SlackerXL]

i don't understand why everybody is being so negative about quad sli...
it might be a bit extreme
but there are indeed people outhere with 30'' monitors and lots of money to spend...
so why not?
32x AA and 2gb video memory would cost much more money
if it was to be featured in a single card...

the only thing i find annoying is the need for a 2x16pci-e slots
and the monster psu needed for it to work...

an external power supply would be better imho

and F.I.Y
they don't heat that much
you're gonna have more alternative choices besides Dell XPS
and there is space for a low profile waterblock in between them

[nn_step]

i don't understand why everybody is being so negative about quad sli...
it might be a bit extreme
but there are indeed people outhere with 30'' monitors and lots of money to spend...
so why not?
32x AA and 2gb video memory would cost much more money
if it was to be featured in a single card...

the only thing i find annoying is the need for a 2x16pci-e slots
and the monster psu needed for it to work...

an external power supply would be better imho

and F.I.Y
they don't heat that much
you're gonna have more alternative choices besides Dell XPS
and there is space for a low profile waterblock in between them
I honestly don't have an issue with that.. my issue is that the cards are Two Freaking Feet long :fact:

[Daveb2012]

This is rediculous. You barley gain any performance now with the top of line the cards when you add a 2nd one due to the CPU as your bottle neck. So why in the hell would you need two more cards? Considering every thing needs to work in harmony to have an effective machine for performance. We are not ready for quad SLI yet. Nvidia needs to wait on AMD and Intel before they do this. I am willing to bet an SLI 7900GTX setup combined with and FX-57 will have almost identical frame rates in most games and a very close 3dmark score. They should focus their energy on making the most powerfull single card they possibly can.

If the whole point of this is "braggring rights at your LAN party, why dont they make a 3x4ft MB with 18 PCI-E slots where you can store extra 7900's.

[n00b 0f l337]

I dont think it'll even be usable for real benching. dual gpu is the max for our cpu's, you might get worse scores with a set of these.

[Turok]

Its not a drawing...Its the actual card...


The three inner GPUs are gonna burn up.

I can see this having the highest temperature related failure rate in the history of GPUs

How does the air get in the other 3 cards behind the first one? :rolleyes:
They look so close together that I dont see how air is going to get in there.
Isnt a single 7900 GTX going to have the same heatsink as the 7800 GTX 512mb?
Not only are the cards so close together, but the heatsink is puny too. :stick:
The only way to cool those g71 chips that close would be watercooling each one of those chips, meaning you'll have to spend more money afther you buy them :stick:

To really use these cards, you'll need:
1) A quad SLI mobo
2) The fastest CPUs you can get
3) A verry large monitor, like the Dell 3007fpw
4) A nice watercooling solution that can pump the water through all 4 cores, or get two separate loops.
5) Some good and verry high Watt PSU like the PC&PC 850W or even 1kW PSUs :P

The total of all that + the 4 cards will probably be around $7000 (USD) :eek:
And you still need the periperials, the HDDs, sound card, ram, a case that can actually hold those cards, etc.

[[XC] Lead Head]

Yup the first 3 cards are nearly cut from air flow, yes the heatsinks are to small, Hey at least it exhausts out the back :\. These cards will burn up. I can see 80*C+ temps with this

each one of the cards has 2 external PSUs, so you havge 4 external PSUs each with there own plug. You'll need 6 plugs to run a complete system with quad SLI minus sound, printer,scanner,etc..

[SlackerXL]

How does the air get in the other 3 cards behind the first one? :rolleyes:
They look so close together that I dont see how air is going to get in there.
Isnt a single 7900 GTX going to have the same heatsink as the 7800 GTX 512mb?
Not only are the cards so close together, but the heatsink is puny too. :stick:
The only way to cool those g71 chips that close would be watercooling each one of those chips, meaning you'll have to spend more money afther you buy them :stick:


There are two double cards...
not four of them
and the lower one in each pair has an inverted fan that sucks air through a hole in the pcb...


To really use these cards, you'll need:
1) A quad SLI mobo
2) The fastest CPUs you can get
3) A verry large monitor, like the Dell 3007fpw
4) A nice watercooling solution that can pump the water through all 4 cores, or get two separate loops.
5) Some good and verry high Watt PSU like the PC&PC 850W or even 1kW PSUs :P

The total of all that + the 4 cards will probably be around $7000 (USD) :eek:
And you still need the periperials, the HDDs, sound card, ram, a case that can actually hold those cards, etc.

i think an FX60 @3.0+ or a Pressler around 5.0ghz would do the trick
and also you don't need a quad sli mobo
you just need a board with 2x16 pci-e slots

[nn_step]

Yup the first 3 cards are nearly cut from air flow, yes the heatsinks are to small, Hey at least it exhausts out the back :\. These cards will burn up. I can see 80*C+ temps with this

each one of the cards has 2 external PSUs, so you havge 4 external PSUs each with there own plug. You'll need 6 plugs to run a complete system with quad SLI minus sound, printer,scanner,etc..
Plus this would effectively make a UPS worthless in about Ten seconds...

[KGB]

Look at those tiny excuses for fans.

[3NZ0]

Good :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: ing god! :eek:

That is madness,

it will overheat,
you would need a dedicated power station going to your house,
nothing can make use of this much graphics power, you would probably need a dedicated cpu for the sli overheads,
it would most probably be slower as well. :stick:

[uOpt]

Single cards with dual GPUs are great news for us with just one grapgics card capable PCIe slot :)

[nn_step]

Single cards with dual GPUs are great news for us with just one grapgics card capable PCIe slot :)
Yeah and fortunately you can already do that.. thanks to ASUS and Gigabyte..
What I actually love is the Fact that SLi is actually supported in FreeBSD and linux

[[XC] Lead Head]

Toms Hardware , more on quad SLI

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/23/nvidia_quad_sli/ (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/23/nvidia_quad_sli/)

Quad SLI will not be availble in retail.
Quad SLI prebuilt systems will START ar $6000

i think an FX60 @3.0+ or a Pressler around 5.0ghz would do the trick
and also you don't need a quad sli mobo
you just need a board with 2x16 pci-e slots

An FX-60 at 3.5 Ghz still doesnt do the trick, its still hugely CPU limited with Dual SLI. and how many prebuilt systems are gonna have an FX-60 over 3Ghz and a 5Ghz Pressler?

[Think]

dumb

[nn_step]

Toms Hardware , more on quad SLI

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/23/nvidia_quad_sli/ (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/23/nvidia_quad_sli/)

Quad SLI will not be availble in retail.
Quad SLI prebuilt systems will START ar $6000



An FX-60 at 3.5 Ghz still doesnt do the trick, its still hugely CPU limited with Dual SLI. and how many prebuilt systems are gonna have an FX-60 over 3Ghz and a 5Ghz Pressler?
If it isn't going retail what good is it? :fact:
That is like saying here have an FX-70 which works only in a Socket K board.. and you can't find any socket K boards..:nono:

[Daveb2012]

not to mention its rediculously long...:stick:

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5992/manmeasuring8kl.jpg

[perkam]

Dave lol at that pic !! :lol:

Perkam

[nn_step]

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5992/manmeasuring8kl.jpg
:rofl: my point exactly...

[Bar81]

not to mention its rediculously long...:stick:

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5992/manmeasuring8kl.jpg

lol, nice.

[perkam]

What's even funnier is that they're launching it on my birthday :p

Is it just me or will installing 3 or 4 hard drives going to be a pain with that in a rig ??

Perkam

[nn_step]

What's even funnier is that they're launching it on my birthday :p

Is it just me or will installing 3 or 4 hard drives going to be a pain with that in a rig ??

Perkam
I think I'm going to need to use my dremel again (Wahoo!) just to fit those cards into my case (old school stacker)...
But I don't have a problem with that http://www.anal0g.org/magic_silver_box/crap/g20/dremel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.jpg

[uOpt]

What's even funnier is that they're launching it on my birthday :p

Is it just me or will installing 3 or 4 hard drives going to be a pain with that in a rig ??

Perkam

I will have fun walking into microcenter demanding a case that has the dimensions for both this card, a 13"x16" mainboard and a 10-disk RAID0.

[JamesAvery22]

...

they ran out of inspiration.


Yeah. This is hardly innovation.

Think of it as a motor company being given the challenge to increase the towing capacity of their current truck. Instead of making a completely new truck and making technological advancementes to meet the task, they just bolt two trucks together that share the same steering column. Sure it will get the job done. But it sure is a :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing ugly solution.

[Cooper]

Nvidia to launch Quad-SLI on 22 March

Nvidia is gearing up to launch Quad-SLI, based on the upcoming 7900 GTX graphics chip with 512 MB GDDR3 memory. Users who will be able to buy one of these - as it appears - initially very rare systems will have access to a new graphics performance level that is supported by a whopping 1.3 billion transistors.
We are told that Quad-SLI, which is based on a 2x2 graphics card system, will only be available through the purchase of a new PC and not in the retail market.
Besides a graphic system that will cost more than $2000 by itself, these new machines will also include a more capable power supply with an output of at least 850 watts on the lower end and 1000 watts on the high end. Interestingly, these power supplies are not just expensive at around $400 per unit, they apparently are also nearing the limits of the power capability in some residential buildings, as some users have reported to us.

Looks like we have to get SLI certificates for our homes :D

Source (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/23/nvidia_quad_sli/)

[Delirious]

Yah no crap, that part about the psu's is laughable :D Maybe nvidia will have a crew that comes out to check your house, for the price you pay u think they would.

[Cooper]

Darn . Missed it :D

[flisko]

fx60 cant satisfied 2*7800gtx or x1900xt CF ,this is useless until we get beter procesor

[biohead]

I think I'm going to need to use my dremel again (Wahoo!) just to fit those cards into my case (old school stacker)...
But I don't have a problem with that http://www.anal0g.org/magic_silver_box/crap/g20/dremel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.jpg
NOOB :p: I'd have over 16" space for those things :D

[Delirious]

Nvidia: "hey look at what we did, we combined a geo metro with a 1000 bhp bugatti veyron motor, who wants to drive it first?"

[nn_step]

NOOB :p: I'd have over 16" space for those things :D

what case do you have?...
Because I would love to know what can fit Two of those and a Dual SCSI Raid5 set up with 10 drives...:p:

[biohead]

what case do you have?...
Because I would love to know what can fit Two of those and a Dual SCSI Raid5 set up with 10 drives...:p:
i'm building my own case. almost completely out of.. WOOD :banana: .. Sadly enough i can't take pictures because my parents went skiing and took the camera with them. I can already stuff every bit of hardware in.. 4x hdd, 3x 5¼", 2x 3½" (floppy & fanctrl: vantec nexus 205), mainboard, powersupply, pci(e) cards fit with a bracket on the back. Began on fan holders, also a plexi "sidepanel" - basically just an MDF plate with a big hole and plexi..
etc, etc.. would be more easy to post pics :( It's really really ghetto :D First time Ive actually started to use tools myself, so im not quite the handyman yet, but im making progress.

:woot:

[nn_step]

i'm building my own case. almost completely out of.. WOOD :banana: .. Sadly enough i can't take pictures because my parents went skiing and took the camera with them. I can already stuff every bit of hardware in.. 4x hdd, 3x 5¼", 2x 3½" (floppy & fanctrl: vantec nexus 205), mainboard, powersupply, pci(e) cards fit with a bracket on the back. Began on fan holders, also a plexi "sidepanel" - basically just an MDF plate with a big hole and plexi..
etc, etc.. would be more easy to post pics :( It's really really ghetto :D First time Ive actually started to use tools myself, so im not quite the handyman yet, but im making progress.

:woot:
That's cool man but I like good old fashioned Metal and I lack a metal Tourch...

[biohead]

That's cool man but I like good old fashioned Metal and I lack a metal Tourch...
I'd prefer it too, but thats even harder and more expensive in materials. It's actually for school, but I took the shizzle home and started working on the thing, couldnt do anything at school. A pain to make.. first chassis, so I didnt have a clue where and how to begin. Doing this kinda out of self-interest aswell. Could brag at LANs for being the only one with something original :p:

I will definitely make another case just for fun. Because then, I know what to do and what to keep in mind. Probably a reversed ATX design, or something completely odd.. like a petit house or something.

[nn_step]

well if you are still building it.. Now would be the time to make it reverse atx and drop a degree or two.. maybe make it a double push. pull set up...

[Xenogias]

lian li v2000 would do it, no sweat. probably room for water-cooling afterwards.

[biohead]

well if you are still building it.. Now would be the time to make it reverse atx and drop a degree or two.. maybe make it a double push. pull set up...
impossible. Frames and holes are already built, it just needs alot of finishing which is a PITA to do coz it takes long and I get bored very quickly.

[Turok]

What's the pont of making these cards so long?
You could do the same thing with 4x regular 7900 GTX and replace the double slot heatsink with waterblocks so it fits. THe only problem would probably be connecting the bridges, because card #1 goes to card #3, and card #2 goes to card #4.
With the size that a single pair of those cards, you could also make a dual GPU solution for one board. I dont see the point of such a large card :stick:

[BSill]

its all going to be for benchmarking purposes, ridiculously pointless

while your at it you can probly start saving money on your heating/gas bill now that this thing is in the house, you mgiht even have to run the airconditioner in through those winter months

[BSill]

good luck trying to waterblock that setup

[Kunaak]

Threads Merged to keep the info nice and easy to find.

[metro.cl]

Word says nvidia will launch this kind of system.

Good things:

1.3billion transistors (so 7900gtx has 325million transistors)
1kw psu for the systems
not only dell will have this systems.

Link: Hardspell (http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&u=http://www.hardspell.com/news/showcont.asp%3Fnews_id%3D22379&prev=/language_tools)


P.D good thing is that there are more transistors that in the 7800gtx (304M vs 325) so there is something else in 7900gtx

[perkam]

Yay...i'm gonna save on the heating bill....but its not gonna matter cos of the electric bill....:)

Perkam

[physics_geek]

Will there be (HDR+AA) in G71? Since, there are some extra transistors.

[BSill]

can we stop opening new threads on this topic. This has been the third new thread opened. Review the new posts before you create a topic please. Thanks :)

[RiceLover]

Yay...i'm gonna save on the heating bill....but its not gonna matter cos of the electric bill....:)

Perkam
Lol yeah that would solve my heating bill problems.

[cyron1]

nvidia has gona crazy...

[mikeguava]

Quad finally getting launched - how silly. Would be nice if all the benchers would boycott this madness

[metro.cl]

can we stop opening new threads on this topic. This has been the third new thread opened. Review the new posts before you create a topic please. Thanks :)


sorry mate didnt see the other one, please close this

[biohead]

Quad finally getting launched - how silly. Would be nice if all the benchers would boycott this madness
it will probably boycut itself because it isn't going to be any faster than two cards.

[metro.cl]

an fx-60 on stock speeds will be enough to run this vgas if you up the resolution imagine 1920xXXX or even more then the cpu stops been the bottleneck, you are thinking on 1024 or 1280 but the one who buys this wont be playing at those res.

i still think this is crazy and those vgas look fake to me they are way to long

[perkam]

--Threads Merged--

...yet again....wow, you guys really like this stuff :p

Perkam

[RTB]

Everytime this thread gets merged with another, it makes less sense than before. Kinda like NVidia's marketing strategy.

[BSill]

Everytime this thread gets merged with another, it makes less sense than before. Kinda like NVidia's marketing strategy.

:ROTF: that was a good one :)

but on a serious note, what visually noticable perform gain are you going to experience with this type of setup. Also would like to know if nvidia will release some sort of credit card considering this will probly cost almost as much as some systems lol

[M.Beier]

I dont mind the concept, but this is simply WASTE..

Guys, how the F*** can one get those suckers watercooled, or get an evap in???

Even it the head had 1mm thick walls, 10mm ID wouldnt be possible, now THAT SUCKS....

- With SLI / CF, you can still cool them..