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Nvidia announce QUAD SLi. Quad as in 4 GPU.

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Dell and Nvidia pages:

http://www.dell.com/html/us/products/ces/index.htm

http://www.slizone.com/page/home.html

Imagine tearing through today's most advanced PC games with an unheard of 41 gigapixels per second of raw graphics performance, 5.2 teraflops of compute power, 96 pixel pipes, and an astounding 2 GB of on-board graphics memory. Nothing can stop you when you have this kind of hardware on your side.
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Stats:
Two GPUs on one card
Power of 4 GPUs on a PC
2GB dedicated frame buffer
41 gigapixels per second throughput
5.2 teraflops of computing power
96 pixel pipes
32x antialiasing
2560x1600 Resolution

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES)—LAS VEGAS, NV—JANUARY 05, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) took its acclaimed SLI technology to a new level today by introducing support for the industry's first ever Quad SLI-certified PC. Delivering the most extreme high definition gaming experience available on the PC, Quad SLI features four of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce® 7800 GTX GPUs with an NVIDIA nForce®4 SLI X16 motherboard. This revolutionary technology was introduced today on the forthcoming Dell XPS 600 Renegade, as part of a keynote presentation by Michael Dell at CES in Las Vegas, NV.

John Medica, senior vice president, Product Group at Dell, stated: "Our demonstration of the first Quad SLI PC with NVIDIA is a major technology innovation, that when combined with the Dell XPS 600 Renegade and the new Dell 30-inch flat panel makes true high definition gaming a reality."

NVIDIA Quad SLI technology allows consumers to:

Run today's hottest games at extreme high definition (HD) resolutions-including an unbelievable 2560x1600 -- at silky smooth frame rates


Crank up their image quality with 32x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering


Maximize their shader and texture settings for a truly immersive gaming experience

"Today's demonstration of the new Dell XPS 600 Renegade with our Quad SLI technology takes gaming to new levels," said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "The ability to run today's hottest titles in extreme HD resolutions with all the eye candy turned on is absolutely amazing. Strap yourself in, because you are in for the ride of your life."

In addition, NVIDIA announced that Dell will be shipping the award-winning NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 in the Dell XPS 600 PC.

As part of this technology demonstration, the Dell XPS 600 Renegade Quad SLI PC will be on display in the Dell booth (South Hall # 36521) and NVIDIA booth (South Hall #36200) at CES 2006, January 5-8th, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Afew stats. We love stats.


Dell XPS M170 notebook will have the same features (i dont know how)
 
Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn! Just as I buy a new computer they announce this. Not so much the quad-SLI but the 512MB 7800GTX, I would have wanted that one.

But seriously, I can't imagine how much they are going to charge for this new quad-SLI.
 
They are also adding Blu Ray and Viiv.



Mike - "What we're really talking about here is a system that's 4x faster than anything out there." Now, Mike's bringing up gaming guru and Austin nabe Richard Garriott, to show off the gaming capabilities of the Renegade. He's got some people playing the Auto Assault multiplayer game in realtime, and the movement on the screen is sharp and fluid. Garriott: "NCSoft has always been a 100% Dell shop." Sweet, Mike. 2:56 - "What if you want to take all of that incredible gaming power with you?" Yeah, what, Mike? Well, how about a Delll XPS M170 notebook?

"We've talked a lot about how the PC is a great platform for gaming. But what about the rest of the market?" Inspiron 710m with low-power dual-core processor. It shares its 17-inch display with the M170, and includes the NVIDIA 256 MB GeForce Go 7800 graphics card.

3:00 Mike's showing quotes from critics giving props to Dell's 24-inch display. "Monitor of the gods" - Computer Games Magazine. And, now, here's the big one: the 30-incher, the UltraSharp 3007WFP. Ultra-sweet. "77% more content area than the 24-inch display. The only thing better than one of these is two of them." Media PCs: "It only gets better with Viiv and Blu-Ray." Nice plug, Mike.
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3:12 - "We've got onr more thing we'd like to show you." It's the XPS Mobile Concept PC, the first notebook with a 20-inch widescreen display. It's got 8 speakers, a subwoofer, a removable keyboard, slot-load DVD drive, a "leather-like" surface. Looks more like a high-end all-in-one desktop than a portable. It's just a concept, though. And, dang, they're actually taking the thing off the stage now, so we can't even check it out! (The hinge that attaches the display to the base becomes a carrying handle. Very slick.)
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Mike declares the Blu Ray/HD DVD war over, with you-know-who as the victor: "I think six months ago there was a format war. We've seen the vast majority of the content guys go to Blu Ray. We think the right step here is an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary step. We really think Blu Ray is the right answer. We've had lots of discussions with all of the relevant folks."
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http://engadget.com/2006/01/05/live-coverage-of-michael-dell/
 
Unbelievable power. Not sure what market demographic they're aiming for; perhaps the "Ultra Rich Dorks Who, Despite Their Money, Can't Get Laid" one?
 
This console gen isnt going too well power wise :P

Another thing is i really feel sorry for ATi :lol :lol
 
Run today's hottest games at extreme high definition (HD) resolutions-including an unbelievable 2560x1600 -- at silky smooth frame rates


Crank up their image quality with 32x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering


Maximize their shader and textures
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Ths is just insane. i thought 1080p was amazing whats going on? :lol 32xAA. 32 bloody two.
 
I mean really, who could make use of this thing. Who can afford it? I mean, I doubt even game developers would want this.
 
Ark-AMN said:
I mean really, who could make use of this thing. Who can afford it? I mean, I doubt even game developers would want this.
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I'm going to put a testicle on ebay for this :)
 
I guess Dell has an exclusive deal with Intel then, because they haven't used AMD CPU's in a long time (at least, I think they used to use them limitedly).
 
Deg said:
This console gen isnt going too well power wise :P

Another thing is i really feel sorry for ATi :lol :lol
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Don't - ATi has been doing this, and in better ways, for years.


single Evans & Sutherland cards with two R200 GPUs (Radeon 8500s)

single Evans & Sutherland cards with two or four R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro)

massive Evans & Sutherland visualization systems (RenderBeast) wih upto 64 ATI GPUs

massive Silicon Graphics Inc. visualization systems (UltimateVision) with upto 32 ATI GPUs


ATI can just as easily do something with 4 GPUs for consumer computers - and do it better than Nvidia.
 
That flame pic would indeed be an accurate representation of the insides of the comp. Imagine the heat from 4 GPUs...
 
choplifter said:
Don't - ATi has been doing this, and in better ways, for years.


single Evans & Sutherland cards with two R200 GPUs (Radeon 8500s)

single Evans & Sutherland cards with two or four R300 (Radeon 9700 Pro)

massive Evans & Sutherland visualization systems (RenderBeast) wih upto 64 ATI GPUs

massive Silicon Graphics Inc. visualization systems (UltimateVision) with upto 32 ATI GPUs


ATI can just as easily do something with 4 GPUs for consumer computers - and do it better than Nvidia.
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Not for actual gaming pc's. Recently they seem to have slid out of the room and took a trip on the way out. :lol
 
Not sure what the point of this is. Nothing out there really pushes my 7800 GT SLI setup, even at 1920x1200. And when a game does come out that can use it, the next generation of cards will be out, and it will be cheaper to get a couple of those than to get this 4 GPU setup.
 
Open Source said:
Not sure what the point of this is. Nothing out there really pushes my 7800 GT SLI setup, even at 1920x1200. And when a game does come out that can use it, the next generation of cards will be out, and it will be cheaper to get a couple of those than to get this 4 GPU setup.
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Yeah true. But its fun to have and you get access to 2560x1600 with 32x AA

For reference how is 32xAA?
 
$3000+ for this vs $299-$~499 for a 360 or ps3 at the most. hmmmm...i wonder which one i'll take. :lol you really think PC games will take advantage of that hardware? waste indeed.
 
Deg said:
Yeah true. But its fun to have and you get access to 2560x1600 with 32x AA

For reference how is 32xAA?
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This crashes all my games because it's just a half-assed counter to ATI's special little Crossfire AA thing. Can't imagine the 32xAA is much different. You can do 2560x1600 with 6800 series and up (dual-link DVI port), but I do not know how many games support this (probably EQ2, which I have played at 3840x1200).
 
Open Source said:
This crashes all my games because it's just a half-assed counter to ATI's special little Crossfire AA thing. Can't imagine the 32xAA is much different. You can do 2560x1600 with 6800 series and up (dual-link DVI port), but I do not know how many games support this (probably EQ2, which I have played at 3840x1200).
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I think you;re mixed up. Crossfire was the counter. Resolutions in games can be changed manually as i already do via setting file edit or command line.
 
hukasmokincaterpillar said:
I stop noticing jaggies @ 4x AA, let alone 32x. This thing is morbid. :lol
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Thats what i am thinking. 350 fps gaming? :lol

Also included will be a Western Digital Raptor 150GB, 10,000RPM SATA drive.
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Nice. For a preconfigured pc this is great.
 
What a fucking waste. Then again, back in the early-90's, $3000 would probably still only boat you a midrange rig. My, how times have changed. PEACE.
 
Deg said:
I think you;re mixed up. Crossfire was the counter. Resolutions in games can be changed manually as i already do via setting file edit or command line.
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Crossfire was the counter to SLI. SLI AA was the counter to Crossfire Super AA. Not all games can be tricked into running in other resolutions.
 
Dell XPS Mobile Concept machine... That thing is anything but mobile! 20.1" display + a detachable keyboard. That's just nuts. I wonder how much it weighs and what it has under the hood.

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m0dus said:
fixed?

isn't the biggest bottleneck in the Pc architecture the CPU? This seems like a far more expensive, far less efficient means increasing system power.
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harddrive is gonna be your big latency bandit.

and you can get asus dual core vid cards right now, somehow its news when dell does it BAH.
 
HD speeds only matter when you're loading the levels, as long as you have enough RAM to keep from thrashing / accessing a swap file. PC3200 is cheap now, you have no excuse to be under a gig at this point.

CPU's are a factor but the difference between a 4200+ and 4800+ is not massive. When games start being coded in multiple threads the gaps between chips will close further. Everyone is moving to dual-core anyways, so it's inevitable.

And to everyone whining about the price - expensive tech today, cheap tech 9 months down the line. Welcome to the wonderful world of PC hardware.
 
blackadde said:
HD speeds only matter when you're loading the levels, as long as you have enough RAM to keep from thrashing / accessing a swap file. PC3200 is cheap now, you have no excuse to be under a gig at this point.

CPU's are a factor but the difference between a 4200+ and 4800+ is not massive. When games start being coded in multiple threads the gaps between chips will close further. Everyone is moving to dual-core anyways, so it's inevitable.

And to everyone whining about the price - expensive tech today, cheap tech 9 months down the line. Welcome to the wonderful world of PC hardware.
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...that does not change the fact that the harddrive is the only component on the MB that responds in MS compared to NS for the rest of the system. And with that much outright video ram i dont know if even system ram would be a factor unless they were using that turbo cache function that lets vid cards use system ram instead of loading from the hdd.
 
at least its 2 cards with 2 gpus each...at first I was thinking they meant 4 cards ffs.
I pretty much think sli is silly as it is, this is more like silly squared. how big does the power supply have to be? 500w? 600w? more?
 
Lakedaimon said:
at least its 2 cards with 2 gpus each...at first I was thinking they meant 4 cards ffs.
I pretty much think sli is silly as it is, this is more like silly squared. how big does the power supply have to be? 500w? 600w? more?
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Mr. Fusion
 
DonasaurusRex said:
...that does not change the fact that the harddrive is the only component on the MB that responds in MS compared to NS for the rest of the system. And with that much outright video ram i dont know if even system ram would be a factor unless they were using that turbo cache function that lets vid cards use system ram instead of loading from the hdd.
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What little of this post is intelligible is unfortunately wrong.

It doesn't matter how slow the hard drive is, it can't slow down the game if it's not being used during gameplay. And the more system RAM you have, the more likely you are to fit everything you need into system RAM, which means you don't have to read data from the hard drive during gameplay.
 
lol @ PC gaming.

I remember a few years ago a friend was digging through his garage and found an old Voodoo card. We laughed about how you could link them together and how ridiculous it was, doing that for something like Decent 3. We joked about how ridiculous it would be if that were to return.

. . . SIGH.
 
Sl1p said:
lol @ PC gaming.

I remember a few years ago a friend was digging through his garage and found an old Voodoo card. We laughed about how you could link them together and how ridiculous it was, doing that for something like Decent 3. We joked about how ridiculous it would be if that were to return.

. . . SIGH.
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Multiple CPUs in parallel is cool, but multiple GPUs in parallel is dorky.
 
... Are there any games that really take advantage of a SLi setup with two 7800GTX 512's? Or is this more for the new "HD-era" than gaming?
 
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