With this card, those dual core patches might become usefull.

I still don't see how gaming at 1000 fps is an improvement over 100 though.

i'm surprised no one has mentioned that this beast would consume about 700 watts under load.....it would be a nice little space heater in the winter

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html

Nifty flash animation there.

Also, I'm not sure I agree with PCPer, they do a bunch of hand waving about a bit of logic on the video cards to split a 16xPCIe connection into two, for 16xPCIe to each daughtercard, and then the same logic remerges them together. Anyone (else) find that unnecessarily a lot of work, and kind of in violation of reasonableness?

I mean ok, maybe the data coming over the 16xPCIe slot to the cards is copied and split in two, but how do you pump double the same data back over the same bus from two different cards without throwing half of it out? Wouldn't it make more sense (given the history of nSLI) that they split the 16x lanes into two 8x lanes?

Data coming in over the bus then would have to be fiddled with in the driver to sort out which 8x lanes were coming from which card, but it wouldn't be like trying to pump 32xPCIe worth of data over a 16xPCIe slot with some finagling by a magic "special logic" on the board.

Also I find it really remarkable that nVidia managed to design or acquire a thermal solution for a GeForce 7-series chip with 512MB of DRAM that fits in such a narrow space. Ok, so the photos do make it look absurdly long, but with two cards side by side, only the last card on the bottom has any breathing room. I hope this thing isn't Dustbuster revisted, although in this case with 4x 7-series GPU's one might actually call that level of noise a worthwhile price to pay.

what...the....funk.... is this a joke!? What next, a 500 horse powered dune buggy?

The video card picture itself makes me think it's a joke, please tell me it is, that thing belongs in lowes, in the tree chopping tools dept :D

It will be held back by the intel processor. Dell really should put fx-47 in those things, who is ever paying for one of these things are retarded.

I wish they would go after sub-pixel rendering of graphics with HDR. That would be revolutionary. Imagine 96bit 300dpi monitors showing life-like graphics. VR wouldn't be just in our imaginations anymore.

What board will they be using? I more than doubt its an intel board. I have seen quad sli from gigabyte, so this news is not really news to me. It would be nice to make a longer board with more pci slots as qsli becomes more poplular. This would really be a nice idea with el cheapo cards from gf660 to 6800 series. You dont have to buy them all at once which allows you to purchase them as their prices lower in the future, as to maintain some performance standard for future games.

Bwahahahahaha i was right! ha! 9 months earlier than predicted we have 4x sli and 4x corssfire... :P

I guess Nvidia pick-up on Gigabyte's idea, but 4-way SLI is massive overkill. Hell, a single 7800GTX is overkill for most games!

but it makes your penOr bigger.

Yeah, but you wouldn't need central heating so there would be some money saved!

I guess it sorta makes sense. Anyone who will actually think about purchasing one of these won't actually be able to build a computer on there own. It's the same thing with Intel Extreme Edition chips and for the most part FX chips as well. Hence why they're getting sold to dell.

Too much money and not enough know how.

This is a step away from purchasing cheap x1 booster cards :P

I cringe when I see a gaming machine sold with an Intel processor. Sizzler won't be any better.

The "superlinear" numbers are kinda fishy. Who measures MAX fps in FEAR!?
http://images.visualwebcaster.com/31754/59353/Slide26.jpg

Jesus, how long can Dell get away with ramming Intel down the throat of unknowing gamers?

Don't get me wrong, we couldn't live without Intel's at work but this is where I just wave my hands in dispair at Dell, again (again).

From Anandtech: "a hand painted chassis and Dell will only produce a limited number of them."

Why do people think that computers are like cars? A super-powerful PC goes out of style after one year, two at the most, while some cars are time-less.

...Quad SLI features four of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce® 7800 GTX GPUs with an NVIDIA nForce®4 SLI X16 motherboard.

It sounds to me as if this is not one card, but four of them all in the same system, using an SLI X16 motherboard with (probably) four PCI-E X16 slots, each with 8 connected lanes.

As much as I salivate waiting for numbers from a proper CPU, I'd say it's completely possible the CPU driving it wouldn't matter too much because of the serious graphics bottleneck the apps they'd have to throw at this rig would need to be to produce meaningful numbers...but still.

i think in all hoensty the power usage is lower, the heat output is lower, the pci express usage is different.... come on this has got to be using a smaller die size, cough maybe the 90nm process thats supposed to occur in febuary... hence the spring release.

http://www.dell.com/html/us/products/ces/

this shows a little bit more about it, in addition to their 30" monitor & some kind of laptop prototype.

More than a little surprised they didn't use Yonah. Guess there are no full size BTX motherboards to do that. You'd think Dell could swing that though.

Dell's laptop lines have been better gaming machines than the desktop lines for a while now.

all to power that nice shiny new 30" dell LCD you just picked up eh.... since running at that high res you're going to need this...

edit: uh .. oops ... nm

*Insert Physics Processor here, to offset Pentium*

A gaming machine not based on an A64?

Dude! Your memory bandwidth sucks!

oh my......

Comes with an overclocked processor.... :o

ha! they'll work in my k8we!

and i was right about to get crossfire . . . :-))

The performance is not going to be that great because of CPU bottleneck. All 4 cards are going to be watiting on CPU to process the data. So what's the point? It is going to make lighter on your wallet!!