Anybody who can afford this are probably drug dealing

[unreal]

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0509/re...le.asp?id=4417

lol Well to do that you need a lot of cash from somewhere anyhow...

Is it genuine? Apologies if posted elsewhere

[DavidM]

Wow! Dual SLI config?!!!

[unreal]

The pure heat and power consumption alone are probably worrying lol, quite teh excessive... I'm interested in performance though if this is genuine

[Nick F]

I did not think that was possible? Dual Sli?

[DavidM]

Perhaps its 2 x NF4 chipsets?

[Gordy]

I think it is possible using the new 16x sli setups ie 4 per card

[DavidM]

I did read somewhere of a motherboard that used 2 different NF4 chipsets to do this.. I think actually 1 x AMD chipset & 1 x Intel.... but I can't remember which one...

[Trash Man]

Am I the only one who hasnt got correct fonts installed, and would it make a difference as its probably in Japanese anyway.

It's a whole page of ???? for me as well I got jist of it tho

[oralpain]

That's chinese not japanese.

[Tumble]

ROFL.. easier just to say it's all in "Foreign" tbh...

[oralpain]

Well of course, those boxes I saw were obviously Chinese

I saw boxes too. However, I saw several banners that were chinese. I also noticed the .tw country code, wich is taiwan (aka the republic of china). I therefore infered that the languange of the rest of the page was some form of chinese.

Anyway, I don't see any real use for two SLI setups in the same system, but I supposed having piles of PCI-E lanes has it's pros. You could have an SLI set up and then have room for a high-end RAID card or something.

[DavidM]

Traditional Chinese I think.

[shiato storm]

manadrin or tangerine?

[javalord]

Problem with current SLI systems is that few apps actually benefit from it. Seems like marketing hype once again.

[Rave]

There's no technical reason why you couldn't use a huge number of graphics cards in an SLI config. If you can split the screen into two for rendering, then you can split in into four, or eight or whatever. This board was announced some time ago and uses a second chipset to get an extra 16 lanes of PCI-E; presumably in a quad card configuration each card gets 8 lanes. Asus have recently announced an SLI S939 board with two chipsets to give each card in an SLI config a full 16 lanes- although as I understand it the second chipset hangs off the first which presumably results in a latency penalty.

The big problem with the above linked setup as I see it is that their doesn't seem to be a four way SLI bridge connector, and it's most likely that the cards are not designed to use one even if it existed. The cards therefore would seem to be running in bridgeless SLI mode- and from the benchmarks I've seen, bridgeless SLI mode is very inefficient, giving only 15-20% performance increases on 6600 cards (which you would think would require less card-to-card communication than faster cards like the 7800GT.

Edit: I suppose there's no reason why you couldn't bridge the cards in a 2x2 configuration and then use them to run two screens though.

[Stringent]

Thats just overkill IMO.

Although it would be cool. "Oh yeah I just upgraded, Athlon X2 6000 with 4 x Geforce 7800GTX" ...

My other PC is a shuttle ...