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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."
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!
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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I don't know, maybe if I get a machine like this I'll switch from vi to EMACS.
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