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[First Look] NVIDIA 3-way SLI

Azza

Azza

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[First Look] NVIDIA 3-way SLI


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First Quad SLi then Tri-SLi... I can't see this being more than just a gimmick.

SLi I can appreciate, but when you just chucking three or four graphics cards onto a motherboard you lose the ability to add a sound card, a tv card... or anything else... not to mention the heat those things must generate.

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and who the hell taught that person to install a graphics card? that's a heck of a lean going on in the top picture! I'd like to see them get that into a case...
 
Nice for people with high res monitors, else a clocked gt can reach 12k 3md06 no problem. Also like to see benchmarks 1v2v3 cards.
 
8igdave said:
Looks intresting but the link you gave isn't english? Going to try find it on the english tomshardware
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Yea I know that, its in Chinease.

The article isnt on the UK or US sites...


It seems that you dont have to use the 3-way SLI rigid bridge

This is how it works.

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So this way wouldnt work using 3 soft bridges

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but this way would I think...

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Because my Chinease is very very very limited I dont know what the article exactly says and if it works fine or not but in theory it should.
 
If they are simply using triple buffering style then the 3rd card is only going to be even used 20% of the time roughly... so after overheads, etc. you'd get ~1.8-1.9x increase off 2 of the cards and then a very small boost from the last one.
 
Has anyone actually seen a PSU with enough of the correct power connectors to use tri-SLI or Quad-SLI?

Because i know i've only seen them with a max of 4 connectors for normal SLI.
 
i noticed this a while back when the first pics were out, the GT only has one connector for Sli, meaning you cant "chain" them like you could with 2 ports, and as the picture above requires.
 
Seems to suffer the same problem as quad sli in the bang for buck department. Unless you have a 19x12 or 25x16 res with aa/af maxed out and you're running the most intensive games out there then you aren't going to see much of a gain over standard sli. 25x16 w/aa seems to be the only way to make some use of that last card.
Would be hard to recommend an extra £300/£423 graphics card for the gain you get there, even on the 30".
I guess It could improve over time with newer drivers but unless you have a 30" display and pockets full of cash to burn then it's not worth it. :D
 
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