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NVIDIA and Dell Display Quad-SLI System
Ryan @ CES writes "Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Dell and NVIDIA announced a new XPS system coming later this year that will sport not one, not two, but FOUR GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPUs running in a quad-SLI configuration. There are two physical graphics cards in the system still, but each has two seperate PCBs with a GPU and 512 MB of memory on each. PC Perspective has some information including pictures of the cards and Dell system as well as specs and details on how NVIDIA handles the new SLI data configurations. No word yet on power consumption and heat levels, of course."
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/195/caseopen_2 .jpg
Lock in!
No one can defeat the quad-laser!
It is over now!
The bullet is enormous, there is no escaping!
Jumping...is useless!
I am totally creeped out by the Nvidia eye logo thing. I would have to get my compy two, just so it had depth perception.
*Lights dim*
*PSU explodes*
*case begins melting*
"Wow! 3FPS faster!"
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"One of the four pointers saying 'come and see', and I saw, and beheld a white
I got one of the first run today.
On the front of the case it has a little sticker that reads, "Windows Vista Ready."
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/195/shipcase_2 .jpg
That isn't the paint job. It's a translucent case!
It may just be powerful enough to draw the desktop in Windows Vista ;-)
The case is actually made of a clear material.
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http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/195/shipcase_
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
Bleeding edge gamer: "Hey, guys? I'm about to start Doom 3! Activate the Quad SLI!"
Gamer's best bud: "Commence primary ignition!"
Dude's buddy flips switches to crank up liquid nitrogen pump and nuclear power-plant tie-in.
Sound of neighboring houses' power being drained: Beeooooooooooo...!
Other buddy looks away from the see-thru case mod, and covers his eyes...
Yeah. Something like that.
Most hair dryers draw 1200 - 1600 watts so you don't have much, if anything, to worry about.
See, that is just the kind of thinking that gets a person into trouble. I thought my systems were OK until my wife went off and bought a 12A vacuum cleaner. Every time she fires the thing up (depending on if the socket shares the circuit) my UPS is screeching at me. She claims it is stock, but would not put it past her to over clock it. That road leads to madness...
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Great, now they can verify that their games run well on what is sure to be a hugely popular configuration.
I don't know, maybe if I get a machine like this I'll switch from vi to EMACS.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
i am waiting for the flames of the case to be real.. that would keep the spirt of the Voodoo5 alive..
nVdia did buy them if you remember.. and i am sure that is where they are getting their SLI tec from
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
Well you can make fun of me, just spent $8.5K on a Dual SLI Rig.
Sorry, has to be said...
No one needs quad sli, and of course - 640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
What you say has been done, and has been already researched in Pixel Planes!
There is only "kill" with ever-increasing levels of assurance.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!