Four graphics cards

[barneygumble]

This has got to be the coolest piece of hardware I have seen for awhile

How many of you would like to see this in the next powermac I know I sure would

In particular, I think this is cool

 

[Abstract]

I need this in the next 12" PowerBook!!

 

[greatdevourer]

A friend runs 4 PCI GFX cards in his beige

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Geez, that's pure flash. I can't imagine why anyone would need four 6600GT or 7800-class GPUs. If you need 8 displays just use 4 cheap PCI cards (or 3 PCI and one PCI-E) with dual display outputs.

Still, if you want to show off...

 

[rickvanr]

Its not to run them independently, it's so they work together.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

Its not to run them independently, it's so they work together.

...except that they don't right now, because the proper drivers don't exist.

This setup points the way ahead but is currently useless. I'm not sure why we would want to go with these multi-GPU solutions since GPUs are still far away from the clock speed ceilings that currently plague CPU manufacturers.

Still, I can see NVIDIA releasing a new version of SLI allowing more than two cards to be daisy-chained...

But my god the cost. Four 7800s + a $250 motherboard and you still need a display, case, memory, storage....