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Four GPU Motherboard

Posted by Zonk on from the real-time-pixar-quality dept.

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."

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  1. Limitations by taskforce · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.

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  2. In other news... by Swamii · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gigabyte has stated they will throw in a free Nuclear Power Plant to help pay for power consumption when you buy one of their 4-card chipsets.

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  3. What's next? by brotherscrim · · Score: 5, Funny

    The new Gillette MACH 6© 6 GPU motherboard, with comfort strip.

  4. Re:Quad Cards? by Thinko · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. Re:Why? by aliquis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, and also, why do you need more than 640kB of ram? really? ;)

    (on topic: there will be released even more advanced games)

  6. 4 GPUs, 4 monitors......... by pg110404 · · Score: 5, Funny

    .....and a hell of a lot of porn. How sweet is that?