Quake3World

It might be just me but I think this is getting out of hand.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20 ... 55843.html

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.

That'll require a serious power supply methinks.

jeeezus... just in case i want to play 4 games at the same time... ?

brisk wrote:That'll require a serious power supply methinks.

Hell yeah, im thinking 2 psu's myself.

You guys think too small.

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.

THE NERDS HAVE GONE CRAZY!!

Yes and one day there'll be games that actually support 4 X SLI, when today most don't even support 2.

Too bad Gigabyte fucking sucks.

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?

Why couldnt the cunts just make it an industry standard?

ToxicBug wrote:Too bad Gigabyte fucking sucks.

:icon6:

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.

Tormentius wrote:

ToxicBug wrote:Too bad Gigabyte fucking sucks.

:icon6:

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.

yep.. they fucking own..

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.

Tormentius wrote:

ToxicBug wrote:Too bad Gigabyte fucking sucks.

:icon6:

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.

so one board ruins an entire brand?

bitWISE wrote:so one board ruins an entire brand?

of course, this is toxic were talking about

bitWISE wrote:so one board ruins an entire brand?

Well, I aint getting anything made by Gigabyte anymore.

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.

ToxicBug wrote:

bitWISE wrote:so one board ruins an entire brand?

Well, I aint getting anything made by Gigabyte anymore.

and its because you are a fucking moron.. but thats ok nobody listens to your opinion anyways..

SOAPboy wrote:

ToxicBug wrote:

bitWISE wrote:so one board ruins an entire brand?

Well, I aint getting anything made by Gigabyte anymore.

and its because you are a fucking moron.. but thats ok nobody listens to your opinion anyways..

You're such an angry person

toxic, capacitors leak all the fuckin time, no matter what they are in/on.. you n00ble.

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.

Again, not necessarily likely, but possible.

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