GeForce 7900 Quad SLI review @ X-bit Labs

[Gamer X]

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[Ackmed]

They contradict themselves a few times in there. First they say it is quiet, then they say the fan cooling does not guarantee quietness. I really wish they exhausted the air out of the case. It looks like the heatsink design would do that, if they put a little more effort into it. Its already pointing towards the back of the card, out the case.

Overall, its less than impressive to be honest. Do they run slower on the core/memory? At $2000, its not worth it over X1900's in CF for about $900, or 7900GTX's in SLI for around $1000. Still yet, I like seeing this type of advancement.

 

[mauri]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Do they run slower on the core/memory?

If I remember correctly, each core runs at 500 and memorys at 600 (1200 effective).

 

[tuteja1986]

Quad SLI is what you need for playing games on Dell 3007FPW or if you ever wanted to play fear in SLI AA 32x mode @ 1280x1024. Anyways I just wait for the next round :! quad 7900GT SLI is fast but ain't worth it if it can't do HDR with AA.

 

[chilled]

Maybe the 7950GX2 will be better suited...

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: chilled
Maybe the 7950GX2 will be better suited...

After reading the Conclusion i find something horribly wrong about Quad SLI :!

"it crashes in 3DMark05, Far Cry and numerous other games, produces artifacts when SLI AA is activated in Chronicles of Riddick and Serious Sam 2, which all degrades the value of this technology for the user right here and right now. "

"Alienware, are not yet shipping the quad SLI systems commercially amid formal launch is because this technology does not seem to be ready for commercial "

"It transpires that Nvidia?s current quad SLI is not a product for buyers of luxury, as they desire stability and performance, not compatibility issues."

"meanwhile Nvidia GeForce 7900 quad SLI is not faster than ATI Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire (which is known for high performance in high resolutions and with FSAA) across the board and may even lose to dual GeForce 7900 GTX setup"

" At the end, the CrossFire technology has matured significantly, lost its disadvantages and came to stars through the thorns. Can Nvidia?s quad SLI do the same? "

Quad SLI is only for hardcore enthusiastic that are willing to pay $2000 to beta test the technology and slove its issues as they find em. For rest of you that are willing spend great amount of cash for better FPS performance, should look at something eles.

 

[russki]

any (p)reviews of the 7950 out there???

 

[Alaa]

i think its a PRE-pre-PREVIEW..poor results = something wrong..

 

[thilanliyan]

I'm surprised to see the X1900 Crossfire doesn't get completely destroyed and actually beats the quad SLI sometimes.

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
Quad SLI is what you need for playing games on Dell 3007FPW

X1900 CF beats the Quad SLI at that res several times...

Originally posted by: Alaa
i think its a PRE-pre-PREVIEW..poor results = something wrong..

Yeah something is wrong, its not ready for prime time. They cards are selling now the article says, hopefully see some more reviews. As it is now, not even close to worth it for $2000 to me.

 

[BFG10K]

It's nice to see 32xAA mentioned but at this stage the platform is far too buggy to be considered by anyone IMO.

 

[Ackmed]

techpowerup also has an article up; http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/QuadSLI/1

 

[RobertR1]

Our other tested system was ATI's X1900 XTX Crossfire. Even though ATI entered the multi-GPU market a lot later than NVIDIA, they successfully improved their product and now have a very competitive solution. When asked about Quad-Crossfire ATI told us that they "are looking into it". Right now ATI has the better solution for gaming at maximum detail at ultra-high wide-screen resolutions.

Looks like someone caught up! and fairly quickly at that.