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finally making dual GPU cards..

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actually, IIRC you cant SLI with 4gpus because the dual GPU card is actually using the SLI architecture, just consolodating it all onto one PCB instead of having it spread across two.
 
Zerileous said:
actually, IIRC you cant SLI with 4gpus because the dual GPU card is actually using the SLI architecture, just consolodating it all onto one PCB instead of having it spread across two.
SLI can handle up to 16 GPUs <taken from old nV spec but forgot location>
 
gl finding a psu that could run 8x 2xGPU cards....
lets see... can i say worlds most expensive and useless computer?
unless your gonna be running a resolution of 7000x7000 with doom3, hl2, UT, farcry, and some other stuff split screen, i dont think this would be neccessary lol
 
DarkDraco said:
gl finding a psu that could run 8x 2xGPU cards....
lets see... can i say worlds most expensive and useless computer?
unless your gonna be running a resolution of 7000x7000 with doom3, hl2, UT, farcry, and some other stuff split screen, i dont think this would be neccessary lol
Its purpose would be for places like Pixar and the Military. It really wasnt intended for home office use lol
 
TheGreySpectre said:
hasnt 2 gpus been done before, i thought the voodoo 5 had 2 gpus
You are correct, the Voodoo 5 5000 had 2GPUS (and the Voodoo 5 6000 which never saw the market had 4).

Actually there have been dual gpu 9700s and other newer cards, but they were meant for professional rendering and too expensive for most any gamer.
 
i could swear the review i read had some reason it cannot be done. Perhapse it or I am wrong. Could it be because either the cards are not multi-board SLI enabled? I also seem to recall that it came with a specific mobo and it was the only one that could run it, this might be it. IDK.
 
The power requirment would be cheap compared to other limiting factors. You would need some serious proccessing power to take advantage of anything like that. 6800 U's in SLI are starved for CPU power as it is except at the highest resolutions, AA, and AF settings.
 
man look at the size (height wise) of the dual 6800U card! that wouldn't fit in some cases!
It looks cool, but I don't think the avg mainstream OCforum guy is going to have dual core for a couple years cuz of price. But none the less the trend for CPU's and GPU's is going to more CPU/GPU's since clock speeds are starting to break Moores law.
Also power isn't that big of a deal, just throw in another PSU and have it dedicated to the GPU....we're hardcore we can do that :p....now the money part *Scratch head*
 
Now they just need to make dually 939 systems compatible with dual core.

Imagine:
4 socket 939 cores @ 3ghz each
4 GPUs in SLI

You could burn a DVD, Render 2 things at once, and still play hl2 at 1600x1200, max settings with power to spare.

:drool::drool::drool::drool:
 
That is sure impressive but at teh same time, not so much. I read the article a while back where gigabyte released their dual gpu 6600GT. might have been here i saw that actully, but you cant run sli with it because the sli briges for the chips are already bridged. so in effect, you get sli with the two gpus, but they share the memory bus and pci express bus.
I think the benches were pretty favorable, the 2x6600GT performed roughly as well as two real 6600GT's and perhaps costs a little less.
its a neat idea, but those looking for an upgrade path would be totally screwed.
 
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