quad fermi? that wouldnt physically fit on a package of any cpu socket, even G34Originally Posted by nnunn
The real problem we-the-army-of-cuda-elves face is cooling 4 dual GPU cards dangling off those slow old PCIe slots.
What we REALLY want Nvidia to do is to get GloFo to write quad-Fermis that drop into spare mobo sockets.
But looks like AMD may do this first... what's an apprentice elf to do
besides it being impossible to pay for, impossible to cool, and starving from memory bandwidth... what would be the point of this? more system bandwidth... but it wouldnt be able to use it since it would be completely starved memory bandwidth wise...
what we need is hyper transport instead of pciE... if qpi would be open then that would work too...
but just out of curiousity... why do you think those gpus are system bandwidth limited exactly?
silverstone had a quad 9800gx2 gpgpu demo at computex and they said it scaled linearly with every card they added... which means pciE bandwidth wasnt an issue at all as adding more cards results in some slots switching from 16x to 8x...
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