OctaSLI

[evenmore1]

If Voodoo were to build a PC with that it would cost $25000 for a full blown system!

 

[v8envy]

Meh. I remember blowing 5300 bucks for a laptop in 97. It's all relative. How much is having the biggest e-peen on the planet worth to ya?

I mean, when your CS buddies whip out theirs to compare, you just SHUT THEM DOWN by flopping out your enormous iWeen. End of discussion. Done. They're not in the same league. Compared to you, they're e-hung like ants. Doesn't matter if they have a GT, GTX, X1900, whatever. Air cooled, water cooled, urine cooled -- who cares. Yours is longer, thicker, hairier, far more vascular and loudly throbbing a catchy hip-hop tune.

Doesn't matter if you'll be paying off the student loan you used to get it until you're 30, for the moment, you are the king of the playground. Call your momma in the room and show her how great you are. Go ahead, she's just upstairs.

 

[mazeroth]

One of the funniest posts I've read in a long time. Thanks!

Originally posted by: v8envy
Meh. I remember blowing 5300 bucks for a laptop in 97. It's all relative. How much is having the biggest e-peen on the planet worth to ya?

I mean, when your CS buddies whip out theirs to compare, you just SHUT THEM DOWN by flopping out your enormous iWeen. End of discussion. Done. They're not in the same league. Compared to you, they're e-hung like ants. Doesn't matter if they have a GT, GTX, X1900, whatever. Air cooled, water cooled, urine cooled -- who cares. Yours is longer, thicker, hairier, far more vascular and loudly throbbing a catchy hip-hop tune.

Doesn't matter if you'll be paying off the student loan you used to get it until you're 30, for the moment, you are the king of the playground. Call your momma in the room and show her how great you are. Go ahead, she's just upstairs.

 

[NeezyDeezy]

It's funny because it's true.

 

[SolMiester]

I thought DUAL GPU cards had 2 outputs NOT 4, which would mean 8 monitor possible total.

 

[SolMiester]

Hmmm, just had a look at Asus Dual GPU, appears some models do have 2 x DVI and 2 x VGA so therefore if not in SLI you can have 16 monitors! Thats crazy.......

 

[BenSkywalker]

Back in the day, one could buy a top of the line gpu, that could run any game at any setting, no questions asked, for $399.99 msrp, and lower when one looked around.

Find me a board from back in the day that could run an at the time state of the art game @2048x1536 w/ 4xAA and 16xAF. Consumers are demanding the rapid acceleration of what the high end offers- the companies are providing it.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
For one thing, all of these multi card solutions drive up the price of the ultra high end pcs.

Multi-card solutions aren't driving up the price of anything. Whether you configure Crossfire or SLI, you'll likely be configuring a multi-card solution that monetarily fits right in with its performance (in some cases, I'd even say better bang-for-buck, such as SLI GTs vs single GTX). You want more performance? You pay for it. It's always been that way. You won't see an FX processor for $250 anytime soon either.

Nowadays, to run any game at any setting you want, you are required to have some form of multi cpu solution, as even the X1900XTX is not going to run Fear at 2048x1536 with maximum aa/af at maximum settings.

I don't think it's fair to blame the graphics card industry for poorly coded games. After all, FEAR was in development LONG before Crossfire or nV's SLI. It's not like they're designing games with the idea that multi-card will be the recommended settings. SLI/CF represents a very small portion of gamers. And the majority of gamers don't play at 20x15. The majority play at 10x7 or 12x10. It's not realistic to expect even high-end cards to play everything smoothly at ultra-high resolutions. That's where multi-GPU comes into play. For that small % of the market that can/will utilize it.

 

[boyRacer]

Wow this is becoming like gillette razors and how they keep adding more blades.

 

[Polish3d]

It's funny, quad SLI just came out and people are already like: "All you NEED for high res is Quad SLI, forget Octo-SLI"

 

[Cooler]

Coolers Law: " Number of GPUS needed to have uber high end system doubles every year."

 

[Polish3d]

Originally posted by: v8envy
Meh. I remember blowing 5300 bucks for a laptop in 97. It's all relative. How much is having the biggest e-peen on the planet worth to ya?

I mean, when your CS buddies whip out theirs to compare, you just SHUT THEM DOWN by flopping out your enormous iWeen. End of discussion. Done. They're not in the same league. Compared to you, they're e-hung like ants. Doesn't matter if they have a GT, GTX, X1900, whatever. Air cooled, water cooled, urine cooled -- who cares. Yours is longer, thicker, hairier, far more vascular and loudly throbbing a catchy hip-hop tune.

Doesn't matter if you'll be paying off the student loan you used to get it until you're 30, for the moment, you are the king of the playground. Call your momma in the room and show her how great you are. Go ahead, she's just upstairs.

LMAO!!!!!!!

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

64xSSAA anyone? But seriously, were really in the territory for dual PSU's now . . .

 

[NeezyDeezy]

Originally posted by: Frackal
It's funny, quad SLI just came out and people are already like: "All you NEED for high res is Quad SLI, forget Octo-SLI"

ha so true

 

[F1shF4t]

I would want to see ati's responce to quad or octo sli, i magine all the cables sticking out the back of ur pc .

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: Frackal
It's funny, quad SLI just came out and people are already like: "All you NEED for high res is Quad SLI, forget Octo-SLI"

lol, I just posted the other week about how theyll prob make octi sli and here it is!

Where will it end?

no seriously, where? I'm going to study for a year abroad, when I come back I just can't think of what nvidia will think of (or ati for that matter)

 

[imported_Finny]

Originally posted by: SpeedZealot369

Originally posted by: Frackal
It's funny, quad SLI just came out and people are already like: "All you NEED for high res is Quad SLI, forget Octo-SLI"

lol, I just posted the other week about how theyll prob make octi sli and here it is!

Where will it end?

no seriously, where? I'm going to study for a year abroad, when I come back I just can't think of what nvidia will think of (or ati for that matter)

By then, we'll be on 21 gpus. 7 PCI-E x16 slots, 3 GPUs per card. All by next year.

Oh, and v8envy, that was the ultimate form of hilarity. You just win.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Aren't you guys getting carried away with this? Isnt it like that Gigabyte mobo that had 4 PCI-express lanes but you certainly couldn't do quad sli on there. I think this is more for the 10 people in the world who want to play UT2004 on 16 monitors -- no octo-sli

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
I would want to see ati's responce to quad or octo sli, i magine all the cables sticking out the back of ur pc .

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[v8envy]

Hilarity aside, an 8 GPU rig is pushing what's possible to run outside a datacenter. Household wiring isn't meant to provide several kilowatts, and UL don't like to bless consumer device designed to draw > 1200 watts. Think of it this way -- a power supply sucking 1200 watts out of the socket at 80% efficiency will provide 960 watts for video & cpu. Let's say the main system draws 100 watts, leaving 860 for all the GPUs. That's enough for 7 GPUs drawing 120 watts, but you're leaving 0 safety margin with 8.

Multi-power supply won't help unless you plug them into different circuits. Try to draw > 2000 watts from a random wall socket and I'll guarantee you'll trip a circuit breaker. Go out to your fuse box and see how many circuits are configured for > 15 amps ( x 120v = 1800 watts ) if you don't believe me. You'll find most are 10A ( 1200 watts @ 120v ). And the rooms those circuits serve probably have more than just your PC -- lights, monitor, cordless phone, etc.

So your options are: power supplies not blessed by UL (so your insurance co probably won't cover what happens if your PC catches on fire and burns down your house) or multiple power supplies with bigass extension cords to different rooms in the house, or plugging into the circuits your dryer or oven are hooked up to. Not while they're on, of course.

None of those seems like a great idea, which is why I think 8x SLI is a novelty, and we're not likely to see 16x SLI consumer PCs while high end video cards power budgets are around 100 watts.