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Nvidia Quad SLI 7800 GT Video Card

Discussion in 'Techno-Magic' started by Abdel - Bhaal Spawn, Dec 22, 2005.

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    Remove all ads!
    It was only a matter of time.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/14/sneak_preview_of_the_nvidia_quad_gpu_setup/

    I actually thought about this the other day when I read the forum on dual CPUs. I thought why didn't the graphic card companies start making their GPUs dual. Than it hit me, why not SLI a dual GPU which would give your roughly 4 GPU. To my surprise it only a matter of days.

    It is a pitty thought they don't have the cards working like they should. If they did I imagine they would blow the Nvidia GTX SLi setup out of the water or at least get 5-10 FPS more.
     
    Abdel - Bhaal Spawn, Dec 22, 2005
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    Damn... now I need to upgrade my SLI!
     
    Rastor, Dec 23, 2005
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    Yes, Read this a couple of days back - similar to the Gigabyte GT1 that was based on two 6600gt chips on one card. Its a good solution for extreme performance - if you've got money to burn that is.
    I'd still like to see more performance from SLI given that you normally get only about a 30% increase in framerate for a large outlay.
     
    Tap Dancing Oyster, Dec 23, 2005
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    TDO, it's still a lot better than Crossfire, and it can get up to 80% in some situations.

    The problem with this is that it's just not profitable to bother building things that almost everyone's going to salivate over - and noone's going to be able to afford. Plus, they can be bottlenecked really very badly.
     
    Yirimyah, Dec 27, 2005
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    I think the SLI setup can achieve great results but of course this is all based on other system components such as CPU, RAM, PSU, Motherboard, etc... I believe all of these and a few others actually will either increase or decrease the true performance from a SLI system.
     
    Abdel - Bhaal Spawn, Dec 27, 2005
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    Crossfires still in its infancy - and from what I've heard trying to get a master card, it like finding a piece of rocking horse s**t.
    The problem with multiple cards is with how the drivers are set up and how the games programmers use them. Ie. there are all used slighly differently. Not only that but each GPU has to take on a seperate job rather than truely working together to process a frame. Once the programmers and drivers are set to a more close standard there will be a distinct improvement.

    ATM SLIs not really worth it and crossfire definately isn't worth investing in.
     
    Tap Dancing Oyster, Jan 4, 2006
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