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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.
Is anyone else reminded of the Voodoo 5 with the size of this thing?
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!
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.
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.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
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.
Dell is hoping that having a system this high-powered will drive up the sales for its mainstream models as well.
... and in the DRM, bind them.
The same would go for graphics performance. In theory this should allow a game company to design for the next gen of graphics processors today from a performance perspective, though not from a feature perspective.