Quad SLi - Who's gonna go for it?

DanMc07 · 1 Feb 2006 at 15:04

wont these cards be cpu limited.
I know my card is, and I bought all this junk of a comp before I new anything about computers, now I no a bit more and wish I went amd

Getting 80-100 fps in css at 1280x1024 is cpu limitation in my eyes

ajgoodfellow · 1 Feb 2006 at 15:08

Yeah - I get that with a 2Ghz Opteron and an X800Pro (not a patch on the 7800GTX) when maxxed out with 6xAA, 16xAF

HEADRAT · 1 Feb 2006 at 15:45

With the greatest of respect "on your bike"

3K for something that will be top spec for about 3 months (and thats not even a full system), I can think of a million better things to do with 3K to be honest.

HEADRAT

Project-Shadow · 1 Feb 2006 at 15:56

Humm... in theory you'd be able to have 8 monitors running at the same time as well?
[I think 3 is overkill.. but 8 would just be obscene]

HangTime · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:12

Yes, you would be cpu limited in most cases, although perhaps not FEAR at 2048x1536 with AA/AF on max. That game is hideously GPU limited as can be witnessed by the huge gains from running GTX-512s in SLI.

benjo · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:26

benjo1989 said:
Gigabyte 8N SLi Quad Royal nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-053-GI)

Why does it say Socket 939?

Someone else gonna answer me?

peetee · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:29

maybe someone was just dreaming they'd be able to use a decent CPU, instead of an overpriced bottlenecking intel one.

loltim · 1 Feb 2006 at 16:30

Was obviously a typo? Its been changed now.

benjo · 1 Feb 2006 at 18:57

Tim said:
Was obviously a typo? Its been changed now.

Oh lol... i checked yesterday and it was like that for ages... Didn't check back to see if it had been changed

Logsi · 1 Feb 2006 at 19:06

vapor matt said:
dribble dribble how many psu's to run that lot?

OT but is that 4.6Ghz in your sig, that is quite amazing!

DanMc07 · 1 Feb 2006 at 19:59

vapor matt said:
looks a fantastic idea apart from the Nf4 chipset is a pants clocker for the P4 CPU

Yeah I found that out too late which is a shame

chex · 1 Feb 2006 at 20:36

Features four PCI-E X16 slots for ultimate gaming platform (Only 2 Card SLi currently supported)

Asus' and Dell's quad SLi were 2 cards per PCIe slot

sepulchre · 1 Feb 2006 at 22:41

Maybe OCUK should get on of these set-up themselves and show us what it will do

powned · 1 Feb 2006 at 22:44

if i win euromillions this week ill have 2

Legless · 1 Feb 2006 at 23:17

sepulchre said:
Maybe OCUK should get on of these set-up themselves and show us what it will do

Thats a great idea, would love to know how much it scores in 3dmark06 so i can cry about my pc's performance...

Bennah · 1 Feb 2006 at 23:27

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Go onto the OcUK website, motherboards, Intel and into the Gigabyte section. Make sure you press refresh and you will see a very nice Quad SLi socket 775 board there. Now's who is gonna be the first to have a play with that then.

Me thinks of an Intel 955 Extreme Processor overclocked to 4GHz+ with 4 x Overclocked 512MB BFG 7800 GTX would be rather quick.

How about you try it out

Build a rig around 4x 512MB GTX's as a 'display' model at the shop

What setup do you have at home anyways Gibbo, if you dont mind me asking?

jezsoup · 1 Feb 2006 at 23:36

Bennah said:
What setup do you have at home anyways Gibbo, if you dont mind me asking?

Last I heard he was tapping away on a 1.13Ghz P3 with 128Mb ram with a voodoo 3......

Bennah · 1 Feb 2006 at 23:42

Would'nt suprise me, but I just cant believe it tbh. Needs something better to play his games on his 24" LCD

If he aint got a 15" CRT with his 750MHz Duron setup, that is lol.

Who knows, but it would be good to find out...

chex · 2 Feb 2006 at 01:09

<.<

I cant believe theres a whole thread on this

Features four PCI-E X16 slots for ultimate gaming platform (Only 2 Card SLi currently supported)

DanMc07 · 2 Feb 2006 at 07:25

^^ ....

Huh?