Nvidia Announces Quad SLI Technology

[Tyreal]

Personally, i think we still have a long way to go before we will need 1 KW powersupplies. A top of the line system right now will handle fine on a quality 500W powersupply.

Consider this: A guy name Electron chaser on OCF is running a one KW powersupply. He is running the following hardware:
Abit IC7-MAX3
Pentium 4 3.4 @ 3.81 Extreme Edition Gallatin Core
BFG 6800 Ultra 470
1 GB PQI PC4400

Along with a phase change system, a water cooling system and a ton of Delta Fans. So you can see how much power 1 KW actually is.

EDIT: oh yea. Yes there is 2 X 2GB kits.

[gwhea38411]

Quad SLI? How novel. I'll put money that remains a concept and only sells to a limited audience. Very powerful, yes but rather than fit four 4-cylinder engines into a truck to give it the torque/boost to go, why not build one 16-cylinder engine? The technology and architecture just needs to be refined. One engine will surely prove to be more efficient than four independently running engines.

[fps justin]

i agree, but suppose that 16 cylinder engine was not invented until 2 years later. Then some people being impatient may want to buy four 4 cylinder engines.

And that was a stupid question. I see there are 8 gig ram sticks.

EDIT: 2 7900 gt could use the better of 300w, so in the future when more people upgrade, more than 500 W would be advisable, or at least, for now. (unless they find some miricle energy saving core.

EDIT 2: www.thetechzone.com/photo/computers.php?photo=6151 Now THATS what i call one fat ass ram stick.

[Tyreal]

Originally Posted by gwhea38411

Quad SLI? How novel. I'll put money that remains a concept and only sells to a limited audience. Very powerful, yes but rather than fit four 4-cylinder engines into a truck to give it the torque/boost to go, why not build one 16-cylinder engine? The technology and architecture just needs to be refined. One engine will surely prove to be more efficient than four independently running engines.

I actually agree with gwhea. He makes a good point. I would rather see them stick with the standard SLI but refine the cards themselves and make them faster.

[fps justin]

well actually. I find this as a very good option for people. When they refine the cards, then you get use THOSE cards and put them in quad SLI. Having quad doesn't hurt anyone, rather gives a nice little option for all the rich people out there.

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Tyreal

I actually agree with gwhea. He makes a good point. I would rather see them stick with the standard SLI but refine the cards themselves and make them faster.

Yeah, I totally agree too. I would take a single card solution over a multiple card solution anyday.

[Tyreal]

unless they find some miricle energy saving core.

This is what the Venice cores where to the Athlon 64s. They ran like a normal Athlon 64 except they were able to operate at a low voltage. Thats why you get such low temps as 25C or maybe 35C

[fps justin]

or the Toledo cores.

[Tyreal]

The Toledo is an X2 Dual Core. It puts out 110W of power. It is lower than some of the other X2s but it certainly still isn't low.

If anything. The Manchester Cores set the standard for energy efficiency and price/performance ratio. (X2s)