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Zelda_fan
06-23-05, 03:47 PM
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20050622142400.html

ASUS is workin of a dual GPU board. Me thinks SLi two of them for unstoppable power :D
Zelda_fan
06-23-05, 03:49 PM
pics here


edit-- oops no pics actually :(
superklye
06-23-05, 04:00 PM
nVIDIA said somewhere that support for more than two GPUs in SLi is not possible.
FraGTastiK
06-23-05, 04:23 PM
Ding Ding!

MSI Dual 6800 Ultra with SLI support.

"The board, currently named "GA-8N-SLI Quad", shows four PCI Express slots that can be occupied by SLI-compatible graphics cards. According to sources, Gigabyte found a way to combine two nForce4 SLI chipsets on one platform. Interestingly"(Asus is on it too)
Banko
06-23-05, 04:27 PM
Ding Ding!

MSI Dual 6800 Ultra with SLI support.

"The board, currently named "GA-8N-SLI Quad", shows four PCI Express slots that can be occupied by SLI-compatible graphics cards. According to sources, Gigabyte found a way to combine two nForce4 SLI chipsets on one platform. Interestingly"(Asus is on it too)
I just want to see someone stick 4 7800's in there!

:drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling:
retsam
06-23-05, 06:57 PM
nVIDIA said somewhere that support for more than two GPUs in SLi is not possible. i remember them saying something to the oposite... i think the problem was with the bridge...
einstein_314
06-23-05, 07:05 PM
Ding Ding!

MSI Dual 6800 Ultra with SLI support.

"The board, currently named "GA-8N-SLI Quad", shows four PCI Express slots that can be occupied by SLI-compatible graphics cards. According to sources, Gigabyte found a way to combine two nForce4 SLI chipsets on one platform. Interestingly"(Asus is on it too)

Yeah, I remember reading that a while ago, they used the AMD nForce 4 and the intel one or something like that. That would be pretty sweet. But a bit on the pricey side.
Ruined
06-23-05, 07:28 PM
nVIDIA said somewhere that support for more than two GPUs in SLi is not possible.

Not exactly. You can't have dual GPUs on a single board and then SLI two of those two get four GPUs - this ASUS card will not be able to be used in SLI though it will require an SLI motherboard to function properly as it is essentially SLI on one board.

You can, however, get four single GPU cards and put them on a four GPU motherboard like the upcoming Gigabyte Quad SLI board and SLI them with a quad bridge.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050526_155843.html

Note that as dual-SLI reduces PCI-E speed to 8x per card, quad-SLI reduces it to 4x per card using current mobo chipsets.
FraGTastiK
06-23-05, 07:42 PM
Not exactly. You can't have dual GPUs on a single board and then SLI two of those two get four GPUs

not on the ASUS card but the Dual 6800 ultra MSI is capable of doing it,going sli on two dual gpu cards.should need the dual nforce4 mobo too.
Banko
06-24-05, 12:05 AM
Not exactly. You can't have dual GPUs on a single board and then SLI two of those two get four GPUs - this ASUS card will not be able to be used in SLI though it will require an SLI motherboard to function properly as it is essentially SLI on one board.

You can, however, get four single GPU cards and put them on a four GPU motherboard like the upcoming Gigabyte Quad SLI board and SLI them with a quad bridge.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050526_155843.html

Note that as dual-SLI reduces PCI-E speed to 8x per card, quad-SLI reduces it to 4x per card using current mobo chipsets.
I think due to the fact that they have two nforce4 chipsets they would all be operating at 8x, no?