TheOssusKeeper Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 nVidia and Dell team up to bring quad sli in the Dell XPS series PC. Quad SLI? who would'a thunk it! Sounds purddy powerful, here's the linky... http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html your thoughts? sounds figgin cool to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 You'll find more in this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/14/sneak_preview_of_the_nvidia_quad_gpu_setup/ But if you ask me, I just think it's madness to put that much money on video cards...just to have the graphics look perhaps a bit nicer It's definitely not and will never be a priority for me. In fact I just can't put money on something like this which will become outdated relatively soon, when there are so many people who are not even able to buy food. I'd rather put the difference between a reasonably priced video card and this "quad SLI" thing to buy one or two new systems for a school or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 That PC is going to be outrageously priced. Plus it uses an Intel CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aash Li Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 pfft thats retarded. Its a neat looking thing, but still, its retarded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 ^^^^ Even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOssusKeeper Posted January 6, 2006 Author Share Posted January 6, 2006 it is maddness to have the quad sli, but the power, I mean wow! but realistically speaking there's no way in hades I would ever buy one. D333 is right, way too much money for one of those, and really I don't know of anything right now that anyone could be using that would require that much horse-power anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archon II Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 If you look at it though, having 2 Nvidia 7400 GTX cards running at once only increases your fps by about 10 from having a single card. Would you pay another $400 for 10 fps? I wouldn't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 ^^^^ I nearly doubled my framerate in F.E.A.R when I put in another card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 IMO, quad SLI is not so much a currently marketable product as much as it is a way for Dell to grab attention from a market segment it wants to get more business from, namely gamers. Automakers have used this strategy for quite some time and still do, with Volkswagen-owned Bugatti making the Veyron for example. Who wants to (or can afford to) spend over US$1,000,000 dollars on a 900+ horsepower car that can hurtle along at almost 250 mph? A handful to be sure but VW most assuredly won't make any significant profit from the Veyron. VW still made the car though because VW wants to gain prestige. Dell is simply using a marketing ploy to attract the attention of those who LUST, heh-heh , after power and ultimate computer system performance as well as to generate buzz. Maybe this will work for Dell and help bring in more business but apparently this tactic didn't work on those who posted on this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 what's the point?? i guess it might help to caress the ego of some rich b****** so that s/he can get an extra 10-20 fps on whatever game they play. the question is: is it really worth all that 'extra' performance?? to me its like choosing a Ferrari over a Vette: they'll both get you there real fast, but one is a heck of a lot cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I dunno....I cant see this being any helpful to gamers yet... unless games are written ti utilise the *true* benefits of this hardware, then its effects wont be full realised. Pc gaming still has a little ways to go....games are still geing released on cd-rom for cripes sake... so yeah, unless youre a digital film/video studio, or even a gaming dev, that hardware wont be of any use to the average joe....yet.... like having a V8 engine in a moped (nb.... besides, most digital studios use macs - lolz) mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 so yeah, unless youre a digital film/video studio, or even a gaming dev, that hardware wont be of any use to the average joe....yet.... like having a V8 engine in a moped * Starts re-writing his budget request for 2006 * hehehe... Wow.. though I do agree with everyone. This kind of horsepower is extreme. I would love to have it, but not for gaming... something like this would make my video rendering time almost -nil- Despite "Industry standards" ..pffhht.. Gaming Cards work better for commercial video projects rather than the so-called "Editing Capture Cards" Final rendering isn't our problem.. it's the real-time rendering is what counts. If we can't see what our changes are doing in a reasonable amount of time.. we miss deadlines. Gaming cards = much better = ChAiNz.2da keeps his job Of course, that would be work related (nb.... besides, most digital studios use macs - lolz) Amen! hehehe... But even MACs are jumping on the Quad band-wagon: http://www.apple.com/powermac/ And yeah, this baby is going to be in my budget come Hell or High Water.. Hey at $17,371.00 per machine (we need 4 of them).. I think they'll approve it... (in my dreams) hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOssusKeeper Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 I agree with yu'ns, but it may become a main-stay/mainstream thing in the future say 5/10 years or so, with technology getting faster, more compact, etc... it might be nothing to see quad sli or a derivative of it in the pc's we use at home/office on a daily basis for gaming/work etc... and at much cheaper prices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I think it will be a long time until (most) games start requiring that kind of hardware to run, in particular since the cost of video cards seem to increase with their performance. Most game development companies would shoot themselves in the foot by requiring such hardware to use their product, even if the 3D hardware manufacturers do their best to convince them otherwise. After all, only a relatively small number of hardcore gamers has the money and interest to buy a new graphics card, or in this case 4 new graphics cards, every 6 months to stay on the cutting edge. Not to mention paying the extra electricity bill for using such a power-hungry monster. Game development companies would hopefully realize that this group of people, while a very loud minority, is a fairly small segment of PC owners, and that this group pays the same price for their games as everyone else does. Thus catering only to the hardcore gamers when making a game would be to deny themselves a much larger customer base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aash Li Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 How do you have a computer running two video cards? O_o Ive got my onboard video, and my nvidia video card, but I think only one of them actually does anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 How do you have a computer running two video cards? O_o Ive got my onboard video, and my nvidia video card, but I think only one of them actually does anything... *sobs* I find this all hard to believe, how can the ultra cool Aash make such a geeky post.... ?? mods. I think someone is haxxing Aash's account... could be this guy mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 How do you have a computer running two video cards? O_o Ive got my onboard video, and my nvidia video card, but I think only one of them actually does anything... SLi adapter. Splits the process between the two. Allows for a cooler system with no performance drop and actually gives a moderate increase. Granted you have to have the two cards be the exact same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 ^^^^ They just have to be the same GPU (core) now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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