I just saw something amazing.......props to nvidia.....

Ok I am totally amazed; nvidia just released the 1st quaq-sli chipest. Its only gonna be in the new Dell XPS 600 renegade for a while but it can run not 2 but 4 cards in sli, and in the case of the renegade, 4 7800gtx cards.............that is just amazing to me..........

 

It's been on the drawing board for a while, problem is, like multicore CPU's, will games and applications be coded to take advantage of it?

The answer sadly is no, not currently or in the foreseeable future.


If you think that's something, PhysX PPUs are being developed by a company called Ageia that make nVidia and ATI look like 32MB onboard video.

 

IMO, I think it's a little rediculous. I mean, what game is actually going to use all that graphical power?

 

Here it is

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=195

 

What a waste of money and PCI slots.

Someone please tell me what the point is?

 

Unless you have 4 monitors, and are playing FEAR on EACH monitor seperately on all high settings, only THEN could i see this possibly being stressed. Waste of money and PCI slots if you ask me... And wait... are they PCI or AGP or PCIe?

Anyway there is going to be a MAJOR bottleneck somewhere with THAT much power!

 

Wow i dont even know if thats a joke or not, if a single fx-57 proccessor is the only one that does not bottleneck the gtx, what about these cards? and what kind of psu will u need, i agree thats too much

 

If the software doesn't take advantage of the extra GPU's (which it doesn't as I stated), then apart from bragging rights, it's useless.

 

I see "Surround Vision" on the horizon!

 

I see this card being old and broke, slow tech by the time that happens

Leave it to Dell

They did this in the past with another card, that had a ton of vram on it(at the time). I can't remember specifics, but by the time it was useful, it was old and broke

 

You could put 4 6600's but thats kinda pointless too

 

Pop 4 FX5200's om there with 128MB onboard ram... THAT makes sense! but 4 cards THAT powerful.. wow.. Leave it to DELL to invent something useless.

 

yeah that is pretty useless, 2 gigs of ram, 96 freakin pizel pipes. U can run like 4 separate games with that.........or maybe like one game with 4 monitors, surround vision that would be cool. But yeah it would make more sense with like 4 weaker cards. What kinda power supply would u need too? like 2000 watts or sumthin, geez.........

 

they said it has 250000 watt psu but i think they made a mistake, its prolly 2500 watts, i saw the video presentation

 

Anyone else notice how long it is in the pictures?

If I didnt know any better, Id say this is more like trying to see who has the biggest wang, than it is for graphics processing power.

Although, I would love to see what kind of potential it would have. Im actually extremely curious as to what the 3dmark05 scores would be if the rig was completely fitted right.

 

If you read up on the PPU, it runs rings around anything available by nVidia or ATI tenfold.