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NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-to-do-with-a-second-mortgage dept.

Spinnerbait writes "Today, NVIDIA will be releasing their Forceware v91.37 drivers and with them will be officially endorsing Do-It-Yourself Quad-SLI. HotHardware has put together an article detailing the steps necessary to assemble and configure a high-end Quad-SLI rig, and they give some thoughts regarding XHD Gaming and its associated costs. Those of you that are hell-bent on gaming ultra-high resolutions (1920X1200 or 2560X1600 for example), along with the highest available image quality, might want to give one of these setups a look." Before making a purchase I would recommend building that water-cooled credit card first.

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  1. Re:I'd stab someone by brunokummel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That depends on what you consider investment
    you could get some money out of it renting it for parties perhaps, opening a LAN-House, or even better you could build a hyper-resolution arcade with it and resell it with profit!

    It all depends on how much you see opportunity where others see entertainment....

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  2. Other markets by everphilski · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... like people doing scene generation, rendering, etc. Small biz and hobbyist type work.

  3. Re:Doing It All by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who owns the 3dfx code?

  4. Tangental? OT? by Morosoph · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Hang on, this is certainly on-topic, or else the topic is absurdly narrow.

    nVidia are promoting a DIY hardware hack, billed in those terms. Hacking is what we, as geeks, most want to do, or else know that others are doing so that we can extend a devices functionality, reliability, or freedom of use. The immediately larger context is that this is Slashdot; this is what the site's about.

    Aside from that, you gave no compelling reason for Nvidia to do as you wish.
    Now that is (marginally) flamebait. Producing free software isn't sufficient reason?

    I'd say it's because it was a negative comment
    Here we agree, political correctness is beginning to be applied to corporations; this goes beyond the standard of hurting someone's feelings...
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  5. Re:Latency: Serious Gamer Issue with AFR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Is it possible to drive a wall of four or even eight displays from a quad SLI rig using SFR?

    We tried this for movie playback using four Nvidia boards in a Mac G5 without SLI and the performance for any window that spanned video cards was horrible. If we split playback into four stripes, using software called Jitter, we could get ~15fps for full res 7600x2400 (it was a wall of 8 1900x1200 LCD displays). We were clearly CPU bound and on a faster computer believe we would have been able to get watchable performance.

    It would be nice to be ablle to do this without resorting to the Jitter-split step; that way we could use any app to drive the wall.