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Interesting read.

 

[Ika]

das ridikilus!

wonder when ATI will follow suit.

 

[ElFenix]

cpu limited all over the place

 

[RichUK]

How the F*** is that supposed to fit inside your case

 

[sodcha0s]

So they only ran synthetic benchmarks? And mostly 10x7 and 12x10 at that. At least someone has reviewed it, but in reality it was meaningless.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: RichUK
How the F*** is that supposed to fit inside your case

the card isn't ready to be sold retail, yet. also i believe the whole setup is only the size of a dual-slot card, though I could be wrong.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: sodcha0s
So they only ran synthetic benchmarks? And mostly 10x7 and 12x10 at that. At least someone has reviewed it, but in reality it was meaningless.

I believe when I first read about this, they did a game benchie (doom 3, perhaps?). the frame rate was quite nearly double a normal SLI setup. not sure of the resolution and site link, though.

 

[Extelleron]

Meh, nice to see someone reviewing it, but those benchmarks are worthless IMO. Only thing that counts is a REAL game @ 2560x1600 4x/16x or higher. Also, nVidia should have clocked it higher- at least 550/1400~ or so, so it doesnt have so much of a clockspeed disadvantage to 7900GTX SLI.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: guoziming

Originally posted by: RichUK
How the F*** is that supposed to fit inside your case

the card isn't ready to be sold retail, yet. also i believe the whole setup is only the size of a dual-slot card, though I could be wrong.

I'm on about the length of that thing, i know for sure that wouldn?t fit in my WaveMaster case. Either way i wouldn?t buy it anyway.

 

[Alaa]

the best setup if u want to keep ur system for 2 years

 

[firewolfsm]

SLI is better at anything below 1080P

 

[atybimf]

The benchmarks left me unimpressed..

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
cpu limited all over the place

LOL my thoughts exactly.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Alaa
the best setup if u want to keep ur system for 2 years

How is it futureproof? Is it D3D10 ready?

Oh and you'd better have an x2@3.2 or higher to eliminate a bit the bottleneck..

Total waste of $$$..

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

more like you beter have a conroe at 3.6 to limit some bottle neck...

 

[BW86]

If only I was rich....

 

[Arkane13131]

pff my quad voodoo's outperformed that ******.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

useless.....for most except o.0000001 % gamers who have a dual dual core system, and a 50 inch monitor to display that crazy res.

and it'll become useless once the nex gen cards come cuz it can't do DX10.
nobody is gonna buy these.

 

[josh6079]

All of that money and crazy AA and you still can't do HDR+AA. The look will be still the exact same as any other 7 series card. .0000000001% of gamers will use it like someone else said, crazy huge, and DX10 is going to be here in like a year???...??? Doesn't make any sense to me but if you got the money...and if your stupid...

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

if you got the money to burn, you can afford to be stupid

 

[moonboy403]

Originally posted by: josh6079
All of that money and crazy AA and you still can't do HDR+AA. The look will be still the exact same as any other 7 series card. .0000000001% of gamers will use it like someone else said, crazy huge, and DX10 is going to be here in like a year???...??? Doesn't make any sense to me but if you got the money...and if your stupid...

you'll be able to game at insane high resolution such as 25x16

there's no need for aa then

 

[Dainas]

Yeah I'd think theres alittle something like hardwear fp16 HDR+AA that needs to be addressed before reviewers can claim "Future proof". Upping the resolution works, but unfortunetly most games interfaces get microscopic beyond 1920x1440. These cards do have use in the professional market, such as simulators...Special dual gpu cards have long since been made for this market... although not designed to work in tandem.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

bah, only synthetics, however it does show the system stretching the legs @ 2560x1600 4x/16x. That's another investment required for the quad SLI to pay off (30" LCDs aren't cheap, and large CRTs aren't getting any more popular or cheaper either). It's a shame though, nVidia should try and push something like what Matrox did with the Parhelia - surround gaming. A setup like that should easily drive 3 monitors - focus two processors on the flanking screens with the middle screen powered by 2 GPUs. Although with widescreen rapidly gaining ground in popularity, the need for extended FOV simply isn't as appealing as it was a few years ago.

I would love to have these, anyone bashing these things for being stupid is only jealous because they dare not spend that much money on it - face it, you'd love to have it if you could.

But I won't get my hands on something like this unless I win one of those contests floating around

 

[josh6079]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

I would love to have these, anyone bashing these things for being stupid is only jealous because they dare not spend that much money on it - face it, you'd love to have it if you could.

But I won't get my hands on something like this unless I win one of those contests floating around

Jealous? Why would I be jealous of another Quad SLI rig that can't even do things that mine can like HDR+AA. I know it isn't everybody's gaming fantasy to run both at the same time, but for me that visual advantage is what I lean towards in games.

Who's to say I can't get it now? I have the dough, just not coupled with the right desire to waste that amount of dough on that particularly useless "upgrade". They are useless since no game out there needs that kind of hardware backing it and probably won't until DX10 in which case it is useless still.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: moonboy403

Originally posted by: josh6079
All of that money and crazy AA and you still can't do HDR+AA. The look will be still the exact same as any other 7 series card. .0000000001% of gamers will use it like someone else said, crazy huge, and DX10 is going to be here in like a year???...??? Doesn't make any sense to me but if you got the money...and if your stupid...

you'll be able to game at insane high resolution such as 25x16

there's no need for aa then

There is a need for AA even at that res. As monitors get bigger so do the pixels so even bumping the resolution up you still have bigger pixels and AA is still needed. Even with my 1920x1200 monitor I hate playing games at 0x AA. 2xaa is okay but 4x is much better.