Nvidia Readies New “Ultimate” Technology

Gerard · 1 Oct 2007 at 12:14

Tom|Nbk said:
NVIDIA's new marketing tool, but just as Quad Sli did this will die a firey death.

I remember the dell webcast when this was first shown with huang stating that the load between the gpu's was balanced almost perfectly.

Was just waiting on someone running onto the stage to give him a good slap for stating such obvious bull.

Still its a possibility that when this is shown at one of their shows that someone who was stung by quad sli can rush up and deliver a 50mph slap.

V|per · 1 Oct 2007 at 13:18

Rroff said:
I have a 680i board kicking about with a 8500GT in it... might be interesting to put another 2 in there lol... specially as if they all OC like the first one I got - they do +70% OC on air.

+70% of very inadequate only makes it inadequate though

Joking aside, this woudl only really benefit the record breakers and the poor. Sli'ing 76gt's gave a rather hefty performance boost, same with the 73gt's. And as this isn't going to work on the lower end, what a complete waste of time.

SirPsychoZeo · 1 Oct 2007 at 13:29

Anyone remember the Quad SLi GeForce 7800 GTX that Dell made? It offered about the same performance as a Good Core 2 & 8800 GTX, but for a **** load of money. I wonder how many people actually bought it. Regardless, this latest idea from the financial department at nVidia will be about bragging rights as much as anything. I can't wait to see them create working drivers when they cant get SLi working for everygame.

Nelly · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:08

As long as a single graphics card can play all my games on 24" thats all that matters, hence why I never went for a 27" or 30" TFT as I'll never ever go Sli/Crossfire. This just looks like a total waste of money not to mention electricity.

gareth170 · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:13

the 3 card sli is a waste because its only for the 8800...

but sli and crossfire is good for people who want to spend abit now and abit later...

sli and crossfire isn't just for high end cards... it's great for mid and low end cards also..... it breaks up the cost in to two small paymeants, for people who can't afford a top card or some people don't need/want a top card....

Darkwave · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:36

gareth170 said:
sli and crossfire isn't just for high end cards... it's great for mid and low end cards also..... it breaks up the cost in to two small paymeants

I can do that too, it's called a credit card.

Rroff · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:38

V|per said:
+70% of very inadequate only makes it inadequate though

Joking aside, this woudl only really benefit the record breakers and the poor. Sli'ing 76gt's gave a rather hefty performance boost, same with the 73gt's. And as this isn't going to work on the lower end, what a complete waste of time.

Does a good job as a media PC tho, 8500GT is perfectly adequate for that!

Greebo · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:43

I always thought the 3rd slot was going to be for a physics card yet to be released by Nvidia. I linked to a Nvidia release somewhere on another thread on this forum.

I guess Nvidia has given up on that idea unless they are going to use the 3rd 8800 GTX as a physics card :eek:

Waste of a 8800 GTX if you ask me.

gareth170 · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:46

Ulfhedjinn said:
I can do that too, it's called a credit card.

lucky you...... some people haven't got a credit card or don't wanna use it

u guys are just thinking about high end cards. not everybody needs a high end card... some people may only need a mid or low end card and if they need abit more performance later they can just add a second card...
i bought 1 2600xt for £78 then i waited about 4-6 weeks then i bought the second card for £55, total £133...

can nobody see my point? lol

drunkenmaster · 1 Oct 2007 at 16:51

lol, all top end willy waving as per usual from both companies. we'll see it in a few dell and alienware rigs, and about 8 people worldwide will actually be running dual 30" lcd's and need them, oh wait, no dual screens in games while sli is running

(assuming thats still the case).

i don't think there could be a single game out now or in the next 6 months that would need 2x8800ultra's even up at 30" lcd res.

as someone said buying 3 low end cards one after the other is fairly pointless also. 3x £100 in 3 separate payments is still a lot more than 1x £200 for a faster card in the first place that will probably be as far as the 3 lower cards in sli. buying low end with the intent to pay for additional crap cards at a later date is the biggest waste of money. i would think most people start with that intention then give up and buy a better card in the end anyway thereby wasting even more cash in the long run.

also, does the rd790 support triple or is it quad crossfire, its been in demo's working. not sure if they can do it stable, meh. quad that, sli triple this, its all about the benchmarking and not real game performance.

Darkwave · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:12

gareth170 said:
u guys are just thinking about high end cards. not everybody needs a high end card

But if you don't need a high-end card then why go dual mid-range card? :confused:

Digital Punk · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:22

Ridiculous.

You'd have to be extremely rich and stupid to get it.

I hear Paris Hilton is interested in buying it.
(probably just wants to sit on it though.)

gareth170 · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:28

Ulfhedjinn said:
But if you don't need a high-end card then why go dual mid-range card?

as i said before, people can buy 1 mid or low end card then when they need abit more performance they can just add a second card which the second card would be much cheaper by then...

this is what i had, i bought one which was fine then 4-6 weeks later i needed abit more performance so i bought a second card which was much cheaper, and now i've got enough performance for what i want...

queamin · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:33

LoadsaMoney said:
What an absolute load of ****.

Haha agreed

sanaxe1 · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:35

i want a Sli where i can link up 2 different graphic cards say i have a 8800gtx and its slightly struggling then i just buy a cheap 2nd hand card 8600GT and that gives me the extra boost needed.

helmutcheese · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:45

If you did that now the rig would run with the 256MB of Memory the 8600GT has.

Aurhinius · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:09

they can't even get sli working properly with 2 cards... I don't think a 3rd will make it any better. Plus I imagine as you add more cards the benefit of the additional card will get less....

So 2 cards give you 1.7x performance.. 3 probably will give you 2.3-2.5 at most

Schnippzle · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:21

Now I guess we just have to sit here and wait for the muppets to posts hreads with the title "3 Way SLI, how can I overclock" or "3 Way SLI, worth it?"

mdjmcnally · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:23

Greebo said:
I always thought the 3rd slot was going to be for a physics card yet to be released by Nvidia. I linked to a Nvidia release somewhere on another thread on this forum.

I guess Nvidia has given up on that idea unless they are going to use the 3rd 8800 GTX as a physics card

Waste of a 8800 GTX if you ask me.

Yep thats what originally it seemed to be, 2 Card SLI with the 3rd doing HavokFX Physics. Now that Intel are buying Havok, it should be interesting to see what happens with Havok, however I feel that they would be better allowing to mix and match, so could have say 8800GTX matched with 8600GTS for the Physics.

Smurfy · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:40

Its real easy to **** off, but for me its the logical evolution of SLI.
Thats not to say its not going to be owned by people with money to burn and for bragging rights, but there is to my mind a legitimate market for it.

Running big monitors requires a huge amount of gfx power 2 sli 8800 GTX's has slow down in many of todays games at res's of 2560 x 1600.

Is it worth the money? For the vast majority it wont be.
But after playing on a 30" monitor id pay a fair bit to keep playin on one.