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Today at CES, NVIDIA and Dell surprised the world by introducing a new XPS system that features not two, but FOUR total GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPUs running in a quad-SLI configuration. This is a beast of a platform to say the least. We have some slides presented today as well as specs and pictures of the cards and system being offered by Dell.
There is a new chip on the card that NVIDIA developed that acts as a physical PCI Express bus splitter. It takes the single physical X16 PCIe slot that is fed to the card and splits it into two full X16 PCIe connections; one to each GPU. This logic is then responsible for the merging of the data back into a single X16 PCIe connection when it goes back across the bus. The two PCBs are connected under the SLI bridge connections with a custom interconnect that allows the two GPUs to function in SLI mode.
wow thats amazing and awesome that thing is gona be top-of-the-line and ive been waiting for this to come out and now they relesed the specs thats sweet. wow 4 GeForce 7800 sli's thats insane
Is the performance worth the inevitable price tag though? As it is a top-of-the-line single card mahcine can run most any game full specs with very acceptable frame rates and once you get a certain point the difference becomes hardly noticeable.
well i think ud really have t do mabey a side by side specs comparrison but people will buy things like the 7800 sli's even if they can get a better one or a cheaper one because of greed and to have to next best thing
Predator: If the card doesn't fit because of the chipset cooler, its the motherboard design that is to blame, not the case.
SWE: What do you mean \"modification\"? You can't simply saw off half of the card so it fits, and cross you fingers that it will work :/
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Is the performance worth the inevitable price tag though? As it is a top-of-the-line single card mahcine can run most any game full specs with very acceptable frame rates and once you get a certain point the difference becomes hardly noticeable.
The interesting thing is: if you have this setup, you still won't be restrained by PCI-Express' limits. With all this graphical power, you still won't have filled up all of PCI-E's available space.
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well whatr i meant by modification wasnt cutting it in half do u realy think im that stupid i mean have to buy a new slot but i think we have finished discussing it cause now u know what i mean ,no?
Is the performance worth the inevitable price tag though? As it is a top-of-the-line single card mahcine can run most any game full specs with very acceptable frame rates and once you get a certain point the difference becomes hardly noticeable.
The interesting thing is: if you have this setup, you still won't be restrained by PCI-Express' limits. With all this graphical power, you still won't have filled up all of PCI-E's available space.
Especially now that there is dual x16 SLI available.
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