It's Official! Quad SLI by Dell and NVIDIA
 

ell have thought up a use for that massive 30 inch TFT of theirs. They've teamed up with NVIDIA at CES to showcase the biggest thing to hit PC graphics since SLI... Quad SLI.

Showcased in Michael Dell's keynote speech today is a Dell XPS 600 Renegade system, under the hood of which roars a pair of dual GPU GeForce 7800 GTX cards - yup, two cards, each with two G70GTX cores. Sat on a motherboard built around the nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset, this is the first ever system to support SLI utilising not two, but four GeForce GPUs.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4296

Dell XPS 600 Renegade PC will be a limited edition computer featuring state-of-the-art components and offering breakthrough performance both overall and in graphics-demanding applications. According to Nvidia, the new Quad SLI technology will allow users to run even the latest and most-demanding games in resolution of up to 2560x1600 at comfortable frame-rates as well as enable 32x full-scene antialiasing.

“The ability to run today's hottest titles in extreme HD resolutions with all the eye candy turned on is absolutely amazing. Strap yourself in, because you are in for the ride of your life,” Mr. Vivoli added.

The Dell XPS 600 Renegade will be available this spring at undisclosed price.

Rumours about 4-way SLI graphics solutions have been floating around for some time now, for instance, recently it was said that Nvidia was aiming to allow such a capability in its ForceWare Release 90 drivers scheduled to arrive in early 2006.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...105153500.html

It's off topic yes koensa. (perhaps you could start your own thread to discuss this?)

But you're right, competition in benching and overclocking now means cash.
No more fun with aircooling :(.

Those 9800 times still were fun to me :)

/still offtopic

I concur. : ( As a student I was able to compete with the top boys with a GF2 GTS / R9500NP / R9800, but now I'm working I can't afford 2* 400$ for two 7800GT's (or even one). : /

MORE INFO ON THE QUAD SYSTEM

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What you are looking at is a picture of a slide of the new flagship video card. I was able to get some quick technical information on the new card and the technology behind it from NVIDIA just a couple hours ago. First, you'll notice there are two physical PCBs on this one, dual slot video card. Each PCB sports a single 7800 GTX 512 GPU and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. The cards are longer to support the added logic involved in these cards and to allow the cooling device to be bigger as well.

There is a new chip on the card that NVIDIA developed that acts as a physical PCI Express bus splitter. It takes the single physical X16 PCIe slot that is fed to the card and splits it into two full X16 PCIe connections; one to each GPU. This logic is then responsible for the merging of the data back into a single X16 PCIe connection when it goes back across the bus. The two PCBs are connected under the SLI bridge connections with a custom interconnect that allows the two GPUs to function in SLI mode.

more pictures and info @ http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=195

do the flames on the DELL case mean that the system will run extremely hot with the Pentium Prescott and 4x7800GTX inside? :p