Dell & NVidia show off a new Quad SLI setup!!

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I heard about this in my newsletter from NVidia.

NVIDIA and Dell unveiled the first-ever Quad-SLI PC at the Consumer Electronics Show 2006. Taking its acclaimed SLI technology to the next level, NVIDIA introduced support for not one, not two, not three, but FOUR GPUs. 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 motherboard.

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.

Now imagine yourself doing all of this at extreme HD resolutions with everything turned on. A Quad-SLI PC lets you run your favorite games at an unbelievably high resolution of 2560x1600 while maintaining silky smooth frame rates. In addition, support for a new 32x antialiasing mode and 16x anisotropic filtering enables stunning visuals.
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
I heard about this in my newsletter from NVidia.

NVIDIA and Dell unveiled the first-ever Quad-SLI PC at the Consumer Electronics Show 2006. Taking its acclaimed SLI technology to the next level, NVIDIA introduced support for not one, not two, not three, but FOUR GPUs. 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 motherboard.

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.

Now imagine yourself doing all of this at extreme HD resolutions with everything turned on. A Quad-SLI PC lets you run your favorite games at an unbelievably high resolution of 2560x1600 while maintaining silky smooth frame rates. In addition, support for a new 16x antialiasing mode and 32x anisotropic filtering enables stunning visuals.
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Fixed. They already have 16xAF, I use it all the time.

This is crazy, and over-doing it. Not necessary for practical use...
 
I reckon it will cost up to £2000 to £4000 just to buy the cards and the motherboard.
 
Exactly, you won't have 4x the graphics capabilities...A total waste of money. :)

(As is SLi...)

*runs from nvidia fans*
 
Pretty cool. £2000 - £4000 is a pretty rough estimate though TVR! No more than £2200 i reckon, but to be fair even that is rediculous for what would be total, utter, overkill.
 
The first thing I thougt was that you were talking about a videocard with 4 DVI ports. Ideaal for (with GTR and GTL) surround gaming.
 
GTRacer4
2 PCi slots and two 7800 GTs with double cores I think.
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If you look at the link I ehhrmmm... linked to, you can see it's actually 4 boards, each two sharing a PCI-E socket...

Sorry, no you couldn't - THIS is the correct link showing the 4 boards : Slizone.com
 
Yeah, The Dell Renegade. I like that Lavallee (however you spell his name) paintjob. I wonder if he'll custom-paint every one, or if they'll just print from his own design. The former would cost a fortune.

The only problem with the Renegade is that it's on an Intel. A warrantied, guaranteed, 4.25ghz overclocked intel, but an intel nonetheless. ;)

Edit: I just read Mr. Rahul Sood's blog, and it appears that this machine can't even run with the case closed. I was curious why Dell would be chosen for Quad SLi while not even considering Voodoo PC (sood's company), Alienware, Falcon, or etc. That's kind of mega-stupid, if you ask me. What's the point in having the special case and crap if you can't even close it?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28865

Read it.
 
I wonder if i were to buy it today, and run current games, how far into the future i can still run all high settings, and at that resolution.........?
 
That thing is gonna cost a crapload :eek: I wonder how they'll cool 4 tightly spaced graphics cards, I imagine that would generate a ton of heat.
 
icemanshooter23
That thing is gonna cost a crapload :eek: I wonder how they'll cool 4 tightly spaced graphics cards, I imagine that would generate a ton of heat.
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Didn't you read my post? They couldn't run the computer without the case open. People said it was like a friggin' furnace when they walked by it. This computer is stupid. Anyone who dishes out 10k on a stupid (air-cooled, too) dell is a moron.
 
It should supposedly be available to the public in April - At that point, nVidias next middle of the roadmap card, will be available as well rendering the XPS obsolete.. (ok - so 4 x 7800GTX may not be obsolete in April - but you get my point)
 
donbenni
Pretty cool. £2000 - £4000 is a pretty rough estimate though TVR! No more than £2200 i reckon, but to be fair even that is rediculous for what would be total, utter, overkill.
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The 4000 may be from Alienware with there watercooled versions. I think someday NVidia will try to make a 8 GPU SLi setup.
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
The 4000 may be from Alienware with there watercooled versions. I think someday NVidia will try to make a 8 GPU SLi setup.
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And the purpose of that would be? The expensive of firstly assembling the setup and power consumption would far outweigh the benefits. Even standard SLi can be overkill (that is if you're running two high-end cards, say, two 7800GTX's — one 7800GTX is enough).
 
I reckon your also need a 1700 watt just to run it, and a 2000 watt just to make it even more stable for a quad SLi setup.
 
Dell is smoking DOPE. No game will need 2 GB of GPU computing power. One is way more than enough now.
Dell is trying to go far into the future with this 4 GPU thing, what they don't realize is that in the future, one card will be more powerful than 4 GTX's, and at a much cheaper price too.
I dig the paintjob too. wish that was on our xps.
 
Take it to Mike Lavallee's shop. Dell will charge you for it as much as you'll pay for it yourself.
 
TVR&Ferrari_Fan
I reckon your also need a 1700 watt just to run it, and a 2000 watt just to make it even more stable for a quad SLi setup.
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Actually, the dual core 7800GTX's require an external power connection, so you have to plug in your GPU's into your power strip...
 
Event
Actually, the dual core 7800GTX's require an external power connection, so you have to plug in your GPU's into your power strip...
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Really? Damn, yo.
 

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