It was only a matter of time but Gigabyte has a 4 lane SLI mobo out now, the thing must be absolutly massive but there's a bunch of rich boy benchmarkers that will go out a and buy four cards and quad-SLI them all. Of course they'll need that PC Power and Cooling 850W psu that's floating around. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26426
think about those 4 slots each with an asus dual core 7800 gtx, i cant imagine the processor you would need so that your 8 7800s werent bottlenecked.
so u guys r saying this board has 4 sli slots?thats........?????? EXPENSIVE..how much does the board cost?
well the GPU i talked about is still in research and i think the Mobo is too, but if they actually come out with these two products, your gonna have to have some deep pockets to get them.
A dual-core 7800GT (not GTX) is about $1000 (I do know that much), this board will probably be around $250 but I'm just guessing.
I know they did a quad-SLI motherboard for the Intel platform. They used the nForce 4 SLI Intel edition, then used the nForce 4 SLI that's used on AMD-based motherboards as the southbridge. I'm not sure how they did it for this one, but I wonder if the used two nF4 SLI chips or something. Too lazy to look up the specs
thats stupid, there will proberbly only be about 10 people in the world who buys this motherboard and 4 7800gt's, so its the people who want bragging rights, and also, first time builders will build there "dream machine". you dont have to have deep pckets, some people just take out loans :\. 4 cards in sli is stupid, the amount of power you would be using , your electrical bills would be extreme, they should just stick to 2 cards in sli.
Besides untill we get those theorized cross bar hatch cpus out the door in however many years four of most any SLIable cards would totally bottleneck the cpu so it would be a pathetic waste of cash. Just though you guys would like to see what crazy stuff was cooking thsese days is all
yeah 4 cards in SLI would be just for bragging rights, most games dont take full advantage of SLI let alone Dual SLI... hah:
It's some major knew eventually to be technology IBM is slowly working on, or at least has speculated about. There's no much out on it but it's been mentioned in a "future of computers" type thread at one point.
oh let me guess, for higher clockspeeds, like 6.0ghz and higher l2 and l3 catch or maybe even l4 catch.
Well it's not really the thread for it but it will supposibly be so much more efficient that we'll be seeing performance well over 10k times better...so they say. I'll keep looking for the thread and PM you.
Got it but Please delete some messages so I can PM ya I wonder if there would actually be a major difference in fps moving from 2 7800GTX's to 4? Sort of like 1 to 2gigs of ram doesn't really help much if you see what I'm getting at.
i just read in this months apc mag that ati has also something like sli - its called crossfire..so now ati also has a combo of 2 cards..damn what are these people doin?i think it is much better if things are kept small with loads of power..these manufacturers are just doin the opposite.i thk they shud do a better job by making somthin which is much smaller.n yea sli really doesnt get much in it..its just expensive
On traditional chipset configurations (nForce 3/4 and a few SiS chipsets are an exception), there are two major chips on the motherboard. The northbridge (which is usually what's referred to in a chipset pair, like the i945/955X for example) houses the graphics controller with AGP/PCIe and the memory controller. In the past, the northbridge and Southbridge (like ICH5R) were linked by the PCI bus, but Intel started a trend with the 8xx series chipsets by creating a private bus between the two. This is what's referred to as a 'hub architecture'. The southbridge typically contains the storage controller (IDE, SATA, Floppy), USB, legacy ports (PS/2, Serial/COM, Parallel), LAN, and the PCI bus controllers. The nForce 3/4 (except the Intel nF4 SLI which is like the traditional configurations) is basically a southbridge with the AGP/PCIe controllers added in. The Athlon 64 design (includes Athlon FX, S754 Semprons, Opterons) integrates the memory controller into the CPU to improve performance (the biggest reason for the speed increases if my facts are straight). As a major part of the northbridge is gone, it can be more efficient to just do away with the memory controller on the northbridge. So far, VIA has ignored this and might be part of the reason they've faded from the picture (along with the nF3/4's marketing, better feature set, and being very overclocking friendly). VIA is still using the traditional northbridge/southbridge configuration. Even ULi (formerly ALi) is moving toward single chip solutions. That's all for today's geek history lesson.
whats ULi / ALi ? how does the north/south bridge look on a motherboard?is it that black chip on the board?n thanks alot for the info. Big B..
