Quad sli review

Gerard · 1 May 2006 at 00:52

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce7900-quad-sli.html

For anyone interested.

benjo · 1 May 2006 at 01:00

Linky no worky?

ihatelag · 1 May 2006 at 01:23

benjo said:
Linky no worky?

Indeed,the page link doesn't work.

Hopefully my system will be a Quad SLi system...slowly but surely

Efour · 1 May 2006 at 05:19

Basically it says "its good, but not that good" buy a crossfire setup instead if you have money to burn

IronFire · 1 May 2006 at 09:20

It's on the front page of /. so that maybe why the link was a little slow

Soul Rider · 1 May 2006 at 10:08

Nvidia are actually shipping those systems??

Half the time the performance isn't even as good as the Crossfired X1900's.

I think they should have waited a little longer to perfect the technology before releasing it. There are going to be a lot of unhappy Nvidia customers when they buy these soon...

spookywillow · 1 May 2006 at 10:09

yeah its a real waste of money tbh, poor suckers who went out and bought one http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/QuadSLI/

chaparral · 1 May 2006 at 10:52

ATI Crossfire needs more PSU power then a nvidia Quad setup :eek:

(So much for all this 900 to 1000watt PSU needed for a Quad setup that i been reading everywhere :confused:

)

Naffa · 1 May 2006 at 11:00

Soul Rider said:
Nvidia are actually shipping those systems??

Half the time the performance isn't even as good as the Crossfired X1900's.

I think they should have waited a little longer to perfect the technology before releasing it. There are going to be a lot of unhappy Nvidia customers when they buy these soon...

Yeah.. It's a shame nvidia are doing something ATI did but this time its worse :confused:

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Psypher5 · 1 May 2006 at 11:08

I heared theres a revision of quadsli soon? Smaller pcb and better performance as they realised it was omghooge and not all that great?

Gerard · 1 May 2006 at 17:06

Still not really sure why theyre labelling the cards as 7900 gtx's, theyre running 150mhz slower so realistically theyre inbetween a 7800gtx and 7900gtx.

Gerard · 1 May 2006 at 17:07

chaparral said:
ATI Crossfire needs more PSU power then a nvidia Quad setup
(So much for all this 900 to 1000watt PSU needed for a Quad setup that i been reading everywhere )

Nvidia themselves stated that one of the reason the cards weren't originally meant not be sold seperatley was power and case space concerns. Just seems it smore case size problems though. :confused:

WatchTower · 2 May 2006 at 03:56

So do you need a new mobo with 4xPCI-express slots :eek:

or is it two with two GPUs on each card?

ihatelag · 2 May 2006 at 07:27

WatchTower said:
So do you need a new mobo with 4xPCI-express slots or is it two with two GPUs on each card?

You need a mobo which has 4 x PCI-E slots. Check my sig for an example mobo. You can find it in the OCUK shop.

no_1_dave · 2 May 2006 at 07:41

2 Normal 7900 GTX cards in SLI beat X1900 XT Crossfile.
So 2 Normal 7900 GTX cards are faster then this too. What a waste of money!

Jokester · 2 May 2006 at 07:47

should have tested at a higher resolution.

Jokester

[ui]ICEMAN · 2 May 2006 at 09:00

ihatelag said:
You need a mobo which has 4 x PCI-E slots. Check my sig for an example mobo. You can find it in the OCUK shop.

Not entirely correct, the motherboards they are using for Quad SLI are 2 slot x16 boards, like the Asus you can buy from this very store. The 7900GX's which they use are 2 PCB's with a GPU on each which are bolted together with only *one* physical PCI-E connector.

Lanz · 2 May 2006 at 09:44

Another review.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_7900_gx2_quad_sli/

kdd · 2 May 2006 at 10:33

Hmm only about 4-5 fps faster than xfire x1900's at uber high res with aa and af, not very impressive tbh. Maybe when they get the drivers working better.

warnea1984 · 2 May 2006 at 12:28

Another excellent review by bit tech on quad SLI, it would seem that there are a few driver issues with this hardware, recommend everyone read this.

Bit tech review