Sneak Preview of NVIDIA Quad GPU SLI

Thanks to the PCI Express (PCIe) interface, combining two graphics cards in an SLI configuration is easily achieved. Just plug two identical GeForce 6 or GeForce 7 cards into the motherboard, and connect them with the SLI bridge connector. The two cards will then split the 3D rendering load between them, which can result in a performance improvement of up to 70 percent in everyday life. Now that PCI Express motherboards are available with PCIe x32 - or, more correctly, two x16 slots - there are also some new and intriguing possibilities.



Enter Asus with its brand new Extreme GeForce 7800 GT Dual. This monster of a graphics chip sports two 7800 GT chips running in parallel. We'd like to note a few things that are special about this card. First, only 2000 samples of this my-card-is-faster-than-your-card graphics board exist, worldwide. Second, the THG lab received two of them. Third, although the cards lack the usual SLI connectors, two of these monsters can nonetheless be combined via SLI. That means we can now achieve Quad SLI with four GeForce 7800 GT chips and a total of 1 GB of video memory.

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Holy crap. That would be one unneededly fast GPU. Wish I had a PCIe port myself.

yeah indeed, Im still stuck on AGP myself. Only really worth upgrading when Vista comes out... Mainly because X64 does not exactly work with all software which can be annoying.

Yea my motherboard only has one PCIe slot, though it doesnt support SLi anyways.

DAMN! Than my GPU memory would be equal ro my RAM! I have a question though, I have a dell 8400 with an Nvidia 6800 GT (i thinks its GT), but the dell only has one PCI x 16 slot. I'm guessing that I replace the PCI motherboard with the one they mentioned so that it can support SLI technology (not that I need it, I mean my gfx are awsome now, I;'m talking 2 years down the line where everyone on earth will have 26=56mb, and I'll have twice as much laughing in their faces HA!)

Originally Posted by technolink

DAMN! Than my GPU memory would be equal ro my RAM!

Serouisly man...Memory is not everything >_>

Originally Posted by technolink

I have a question though, I have a dell 8400 with an Nvidia 6800 GT (i thinks its GT), but the dell only has one PCI x 16 slot. I'm guessing that I replace the PCI motherboard with the one they mentioned so that it can support SLI technology (not that I need it, I mean my gfx are awsome now, I;'m talking 2 years down the line where everyone on earth will have 26=56mb, and I'll have twice as much laughing in their faces HA!)

Well I would not get any ideas. I mean SLi is nice but not all of us have the money to buy it. You'd just be better off buying one card good card instead of trying to get two not so expensive cards.

For example...
6800GS = $200 Two of them = $400
7800GT = $300 Two of them = $600

Two 6800GS in SLi can only really equel or slighty better than to one 7800GT...Its only one card save power and its $100 cheaper. So if your board is S939 your sorted for awhile longer.

Wow, thanks V99, I never thought of that. And for me (using high tech CAD and the like), memory is everything since my CAD program takes up almost 512mb just by itself!, so any GPU that can take the load off of it is nice, also I don't have money, so your solutions saves me $100 plus the SLI kit, plus the new motherboard.