Quad PCIe Motherboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 13, 2006 @09:22PM from the imagining-eight-30-inch-widescreen-flatpanels dept.

SlipKid writes "PCI Express Graphics cards have allowed for some new and innovative ways to increase rendering horsepower in Desktops and Workstations. Recent introductions of NVIDIA's SLI and ATI's CrossFire technology have enabled dual PCIe Graphics cards in a load-sharing architecture. Motherboard manufacturers are jumping into the fray now and Gigabyte has released a Quad PCI Express graphics enabled motherboard, capable of running four cards at once. The board is not capable of running Quad SLI, mostly due to lack of NVIDIA driver support currently but it does offer support for eight simultaneous display outputs on four Graphics cards."

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Re:Even if you could do Quad SLI... by Slashcrap · 2006-03-14 03:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

And according to ATI Crossfired Radeon X1900 XTX cards are bottle necked by current CPUs.

Any modern graphics card will be bottlenecked by the CPU if you run it at 640x480. Are they saying that their cards are CPU limited when they run FEAR at 2480x1536 with 16x AA? Because if they are, they are full of shit. In fact I suspect ATI have always been full of shit - because occasionally they squeeze out a little bit and call it a driver.