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| NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible According to Nvidia quadruple SLI is possible. At the moment Gigabite and Asus have announced a graphic card with two 6600GT chips and it will be possible in the future to put two of those cards in SLI ---------> having 4 chips running!! Because of the heat problems, no 6800 chips are used at the moment ......... but who know's in the future. Nvidia: Auch 4fach-SLI möglich - vier Grafikchips im Verbund Zwei Dual-GeForce-6600GT-Grafikkarten lassen sich verbinden Nachdem sowohl Gigabyte als auch ASUS Grafikkarten ankündigten, die zwei per "Scalable Link Interface" (SLI) verbundene GeForce-6600GT-Grafikchips beherbergen, kommt nun der nächste Schritt. Noch mehr Leistung erhält man, wenn die Dual-6600GT-Grafikkarten paarweise im SLI-Betrieb verbunden werden und somit vier Grafikchips im Gespann arbeiten. Nvidia soll gerade die Hardware von ASUS und Gigabyte testen - sobald man hier mit den Zertifizierungstests fertig sei, soll Nvidia zufolge mehr darüber bekannt gegeben werden. Zudem muss noch der SLI-Treiber für den 4fach-Grafikchip-Betrieb erweitert werden. "Dies wird in Zukunft noch kommen", erklärte Nvidia Deutschland gegenüber Golem.de. Ab wann es soweit ist, wurde noch nicht genannt. Auch zur Leistung von 4fach-SLI sowie der benötigen Netzteilleistung konnte Nvidia noch keine Angaben machen, da man das 4fach-SLI noch nicht getestet habe. Für jeden der vier Grafikchips stehen bei einer 4fach-SLI-Lösung vier PCI-Express-Lanes zur Verfügung, was aber jeweils immer noch über der Bandbreite von AGP liegt. Dass ein Hersteller auch zwei leistungsfähigere GeForce-6800er- statt der eher stromsparenden 6600GT-Chips auf einer Grafikkarte bündelt, bezweifelte ein Nvidia-Sprecher gegenüber Golem.de. Der Kühlaufwand, die größere Speichermenge (je 256 MByte statt je 128 MByte pro Grafikchip) und der Strombedarf dürften zu hoch sein. Um mit besseren Kühlsystemen höhere Taktraten erreichen zu können, hat Nvidia kürzlich sein Kühldesignteam verstärkt, dessen neues Kühldesign beim kommenden High-End-Grafikchip-Update zum Einsatz kommen wird. Während Gigabyte seine Dual-6600GT-Grafikkarte GV-3D1 ab Ende Januar 2005 nur im Paket mit einem Gigabyte-Mainboard erhältlich sein soll, ohne dass die mit zwei 6600GT-Chips bestückte Karte nicht läuft, soll ASUS' sehr ähnlich aussehende Konkurrenz-Karte EN6600GT Dual derartige Beschränkungen nicht aufweisen. Noch kann ASUS aber keinen Liefertermin und auch keinen Preis nennen. Einem von Gigabyte zur Verfügung gestellten Produktfoto zufolge fehlen zumindest den ersten 3D1-Karten noch die nötigen SLI-Anschlüsse. Source: Golem.de
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| Re: NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible whats the point of have 4 6600 in sli ? is the same of having 2 6800ultra in sli and the cost is the same. of course if u have 2 6600 in a board , you will have half of the ram of the card. Ex. 256 is 2x128 for each gpu. Just dont see the point for that. http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD05NjM= |
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| Re: NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible Well 512Mb cards are coming and when they can put two 6800Ultra's on one board, you can have 4 6800Ultra's!! Don't know if you want to play Doom3 with 300fps @ 1600x1200, but some people would want to (just to show off at their friends).
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| Re: NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible *update* ASUS has reveiled a dual GeForce 6800Ultra PCI-E GPU, that means 2 6800Ultra GPU's on one card! If they would make it possible to run 2 of those in SLI. At the moment in China you can already take a look at the new monster from ASUS based on dual GeForce 6800Ultra PCIE GPUs. ![]() Although not much is known, you can already imagine the huge PCB dimensions of this novelty (based on the size of a standard DVI connector, the size of the card is to be about 337x172mm, which even exceeds the full-size PCI dimensions). Besides two GeForce 6800 GPUs the card is said to have 512MB GDDR3 memory, 400MHz/1100MHz clock rates, and, naturally, the 6-pin connector for additional power. Since no official release date has been disclosed, we can only hope it won´t take long and, which is also important, that the price of this powerhouse will be at least close to the "nearly affordable". Source: GZeasy
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| Re: NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible I guess that'd require quite a big PSU. I believe modern cards use about 70watts, so 4 cores would require 250~300W. That's quite a lot!
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| Re: NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible Time to invest in that redundant power supply then ![]()
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| Re: NVidia: quadruple SLI is possible Innovatek, Gainward deliver big SLI scores 24500 in 3Dmark03 and 11446 in 3Dmark 05 water-cooled. IN ONE OF THE best designed PCs that we saw at CeBIT was a beast waiting for us to unleash its performance. At Gainward's booth, we had a chance to see an Athlon FX55 in an SLI board, overclocked to 2.7 GHz powered with two Gainward water-cooled Geforce 6800 Ultra cards. We run the two usual suspects, 3Dmark03 and 3Dmark05, and managed to get some impressive scores. Innovatek water kit was cooling both the cards and CPU without any problems. The machine was supplied and assembled by Gainward Nordic and is a shipping unit. We scored 24499 in 3Dmark03 and 11446 in 3Dmark05 and those are the highest scores that I saw in my life delivered by a water cooled PC. I believe that the CPU could be pushed even harder but even clocked at 2.7GHz, it was a breakthrough score. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21902 |
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