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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."
Maybe if you won the lottery and/or work is (for some odd reason) paying for it. 4 GFX cards that'll run SLI, or whatever SLI for 4 gfx cards is, will probably take up 75% of the total cost of a machine.
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Remember Carmack promising us real-time rendering for full CG movies? Can you imagine a game with the visuals of the Shrek series?
Personally, as an old-skool gamer, I'm hoping that if it ever comes to that, gameplay won't completely be forgotten, as the ratio of gamplay to graphics seems to diminish every day.
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HD video output 1920x1080, do real time rendering of movies, why send a extremely large pre rendered movie when you can send just a couple scene files (though like compiled code vs source code they could end up being larger than the compiled version).
Play game with real HD graphics.
Don't limit the idea to just computer monitors.
TV stations could use it to make real time HD talking heads, your anchor woman is sick, but signed a release to use her features in case she is sick to render her, or have her be in two places at once, or do without anchor people and CG everything.
Is this four GPU's driving a single display? What is this SLI stuff?
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