Gigabytes 4*SLi card... more info from Tweaktown

[tLove]

Thought you guys might find this article interesting...
http://images.tweaktown.com/imagebank/8nsliquad_monitors01l.jpg

What is possible right now though through the rigorous testing of the software people at Gigabyte is a total of 4 GPU’s in one system. Gigabyte have had their 3D1-68GT (dual GeForce 6800GT on one graphics card) on the market for some time now and with this setup you can run two 3D1’s in SLI which will provide some serious 3D punch. You’ll be able to disable the third and forth PCI Express graphics slots and change the first and second slots to the full speed 16 lanes for maximum performance and given each 3D1 has two GPU’s on board, they’ll need it… or at least want it.

Linky: http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=814

[Sevin7]

its my dream come true, 10 moniters, now i just need 10 eyes

[dicecca112]

that's just wrong. Who would need two let alone 10

[AdvanS13]

wiring nightmare

[mdameron]

^^^ They should re-do it all wireless..... we could call it....
















THE CANCER ROOM! :p

[Silverfoot]

that's just wrong. Who would need two let alone 10

Ten is exessive, for most applications. There are some that come to mind, like security, that it would be pertinant for.

HOWEVER, 2 monitors are Very, Very useful, across several apps. For me, the biggest one is for a cad / video edit enviroment. The other being for Flight sim games. Gives you the more realistic Split window experience.

Carry on.

[JigPu]

Indeed -- after having used dual monitors for 6 months and then being forced back onto one screen due to lack of desk space (:(), I must say that there's nothing quite like having two monitors. Makes multitasking a LOT easier, as well as being fairly nifty durring gaming (can keep various apps on the second monitor that you'd like to keep an eye on)

10 is overkill (except for der-uber flightsim :D), but two is very worthwhile upgrade. Three may be as well, but I haven't the pocketbook to see.

JigPu

[mdameron]

Yes indeed^^^ monitoring temps and all that while gaming would be AWESOME... and i do a ton of multitasking... especially with this new ArcGIS stuff... It's dang near a necessity to have duallies!!!

[hazmatt87]

Crap guys, you dont need another monitor to watch temps while gaming. All you need is an Abit motherboard with the Guru clock. I have one and its great, no software needed to run it either.

[Rogue_weasel]

Ten monitors(or 8, or even 6) is overkill for pretty much anything I can think of save flightsims, since most other games don't support such configurations...

BUT! What if the driver/game support was there to run games on, say, 3-6 monitors? Something like the surround-gaming feature of the Parhelia, but with the ability to add a second row of monitors above it...

Surround gaming got a lot of hype at the time, but the Parhelia just plain sucked. With SLI thrown into the mix, it might be workable this time around...

[AdvanS13]

more info...still, think it's a waste.

linkage http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20051004/index.html

"There is bad news on the drivers front, however. Right now, NVIDIA does not support four GPUs for SLI, as the firm presently does not intend to go in that direction. This leaves Gigabyte pretty much standing in the rain, because what they have devised is more than just something new - it is nothing less than anticipating what we are going to see in the future. Processors are increasingly going dual core, with multi cores to come to further share the workload. And things are not so different in the graphics arena either, where parallelism has been taking place for some time; we presently see increasing numbers of programmable shaders pixel pipelines."

blah :shrug:

[TheGreySpectre]

maybe not 10 but i could use 4+ monitors, 10 would be great

[PhreakinSyco]

more info...still, think it's a waste.

linkage http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20051004/index.html

"There is bad news on the drivers front, however. Right now, NVIDIA does not support four GPUs for SLI, as the firm presently does not intend to go in that direction. This leaves Gigabyte pretty much standing in the rain, because what they have devised is more than just something new - it is nothing less than anticipating what we are going to see in the future. Processors are increasingly going dual core, with multi cores to come to further share the workload. And things are not so different in the graphics arena either, where parallelism has been taking place for some time; we presently see increasing numbers of programmable shaders pixel pipelines." blah :shrug:

Wow this seems like a HUUGE blunder on Nvidias part. Dual Core/Multi Thread is the future of processing, be it on a GPU or a CPU. This is the first step and they pass it by as if its nothing. I hope ATI sees this and cathces on.

[Aslan]

I'm definitely interested to see how this performs, but im a bit leery, as I don't have much faith in Gigabyte to pull this off.

[Stumpjumper5200]

Impressive, now he just needs to get the monitors calibrated :)