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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."
Ah, but finally a legit use for that 1000 Watt power supply, as long as you include the multi-cpu and raid setup, of course. :)
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
Most hair dryers draw 1200 - 1600 watts so you don't have much, if anything, to worry about.
You among the rest of Slashdot just dont "get it" do you?
PC Gaming today is just like Golf. Most of the high-end shit is for bragging rights...period. Trust me, it's not over. Expect to see rigs going for 8 grand. Sure, it's extreme, but we also have an exreme market too with extreme people will to pay the, ehem...extreme price.
This should be EXPECTED and not questioned. Has anyone learned anything an econ 101? Oh ya, I guess they don't teach that anymore.
Life is not for the lazy.
I agree this is overkill, but I think that it is like those 108" TVs that someone (Samsung?) is showing at CES. It may be a product that is for sale, but they don't expect to actually sell any number of them greater than 5. It is more a PR boast than anything else.
Personally, I can't wait for Mac World SF. Rumor has it Apple will introduce a new version of their pro apps (specifically Final Cut Pro) that can work on ultra-HD content (I think it was 11 megapixels a frame, 4000x2700 or so) and a new monitor designed with a high enough resolution to be able to show it full-frame, unstretched. Now THAT should be cool to see.
But it is CES and products fall into two categories: "wow, that's neat" and "wow, that's neat and who would ever buy that".
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
If you are buying a gaming rig with essentially 4 Geforce 7800 cards with 512 MB of RAM each in it,... I don't think $128 over a year for electricity is really going to put you off.
Is it just me, or are towers and components going the way of athletic shoes in looking absolutely disgusting? Why not go with something really classy, like baby blue with faux wood panels? ;) Every effort the manufacturers make to "improve" the look of a system is another dollar from the pocket of the buyer, and for what? Maybe i just don't get it.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: That averages about 660,000,000 of each kind.
I'd just like to point out that the 5.2 Terraflops of computing power they quote would place it at #70 on the top500 Supercomputer list! While I realize that its by now means a general processor, its still quite amazing that they've reached that kind of computing density, albeit in a well defined and inherantly paralizable problem domain.
It edges out Russia's Joint Supercomputer Center, which uses an MVS-15000BM, eServer BladeCenter JS20 containing 924 IBM PowerPC970 processors at 2.2 GHz for the #70 spot.