Four GPU Motherboard

didde writes "The people over at Tom's Hardware are running a story on Gigabytes experiments with quadruple GPU's on one motherboard. Perhaps we'll need something cooler than liquid metal to keep this beast from running hot?" From the article: "About half a year ago, we learned that Gigabyte was working on a graphics card that integrates two GeForce 6600GT graphics chips. While we were impressed with the out-of-the-box approach from Gigabyte, there was of course the question, whether two of those cards could be combined for a total of four graphics chips."

Comments

Limitations

[taskforce]

One of the major limitations of the GB Dual GPU cards is that they only worked on their propreitary motherboards, which is useless for people who use other brands of motherboards; this was supposedly because it was using the SLi in some strange way. (2 SLi links accross the GPUs as opposed to 2 boards)

I would hope that they would be able to get these to run on all SLi boards, I've always thought one of the main strengths of building your own PC was the compatibility between differnet brands of components.

Re:Quad Cards?

[Thinko]

Actually, it's both.. It discusses running in 4- 8x PCI-Express configuration for 4 Single Chip cards, and 2- 16x PCI-Express configuration for 2 Dual-Chip cards.