Chicago (IL) - If even two graphics cards in your PC are not enough, what about four? SLI typically is limited to two cards within one system, but sources told Tom's Hardware Guide that Gigabyte will soon offer a "Quad" motherboard with slots for up to four Nvidia-based SLI cards.
We're only just around the corner from having 19" LCDs suitable for gaming running at 1600x1200. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to play games such as Doom3 or HL2 at 1600x1200 with a stable 60fps with max texture and detail settings?
Well... sure seems nice to me, my next mobo is having SLI.
ATI will showcase its own multi-GPU solution "Crossfire" at this year's Computex. The company did not release any detailed information about the technology but sources said users will be able to combine Crossfire-enabled cards with any other graphics card. Also, ATI's approach appears not to be limited to just two GPU - or four such as in this case. Crossfire may be able to support up to 32 graphic chips, sources said.
For the cost of the full setup you could buy, what, two xbox2s and two PS3s? Or just wait for the next generation of graphics cards which will support more features rather than blowing money purely for resolution.
dzjepp wrote:ATI will showcase its own multi-GPU solution "Crossfire" at this year's Computex. The company did not release any detailed information about the technology but sources said users will be able to combine Crossfire-enabled cards with any other graphics card. Also, ATI's approach appears not to be limited to just two GPU - or four such as in this case. Crossfire may be able to support up to 32 graphic chips, sources said.
lol wtf?
Fucking hell you could heat your entire home with a setup like that.
Have you always talked out of your ass about things you have no clue about or is it a talent you're just working really hard on perfecting?
Gigabyte is a major player in the motherboard market and has an excellent track record.
My, high end at the time, GA-7VAXP motherboard's capacitors leaked resulting in the CPU overheating and showing temps of 78C, and unstable operation. I got an Asus A7N8X mobo instead and my temps are now 37C idle/50C load.
I bought an A7N8X-X to replace my Epox 8RDA+ which blew up (the capacitor blew up), and it sucks in comparrison. I couldn't be bothered spending lots on a new motherboard so bought that as it was cheap. I just built a friend an XP64 system with a Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI motherboard, and to be frank, it fucking rocks.
dzjepp wrote:ATI will showcase its own multi-GPU solution "Crossfire" at this year's Computex. The company did not release any detailed information about the technology but sources said users will be able to combine Crossfire-enabled cards with any other graphics card. Also, ATI's approach appears not to be limited to just two GPU - or four such as in this case. Crossfire may be able to support up to 32 graphic chips, sources said.
lol wtf?
First, that's just what the technology supports. There may never be 32 graphics chips running on this technology.
Second, it's graphics chips, not cards. In 2-3 generations, the die shrinks might allow there to be 4 GPU processors on a single card. If you had 4 of those in "SLI", that'd be 16GPUs chips. Or if they go multi-core like CPUs, you could have 2 quad-core GPUs on one card. Four of those in "SLI" would actually be 32 GPUs. In just 4 cards.
with the interduction and Use of cell proc's i would thing that it would chance things up a little..
To think, Getting a quad Cell GPU clocked at ~500mhz/pop, then being able to Tell it what Cell you want to do what. this would be a Very interesting concept. Though, i feel that Shotgunning Videocards ( Errr, SLI ) is pointless..
back in the voodoo 2 days it was a blast, me and two other bud's put 3 Voodoo 2 SLI's Chained to a Voodoo 2 Banchee AGP
