AMD Quad FX and NVIDIA's Four Card Quad-SLI - Will it Work?

**MIG-31** · Dec 8, 2006, 05:01 PM

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Now that the AMD Quad FX platform has been successfully benchmarked and overclocked, I can now have some fun with the system. With four x16 PCI Express slots present on the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS motherboard I figured why not populate all of them? At first I was going to use several NVIDIA GeForce 8 series graphics cards, but didn't have enough 6-pin PCIe power headers and all the cards I have take up too many PCI slots. With NVIDIA and ATI soon moving over to systems that contain three graphics cards (two for graphics and one for physics) the market will soon have power supplies with six 6-pin PCIe headers. For now not even the $599.99 PC Power & Cooling 1KW power supply has six PCIe connectors. It just goes to show that no matter how much you spend that you'l never be future proof. Upcoming power supplies like the Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W and 1200W power supplies will have six connectors and will be ready for both ATI's and NVIDIA's three card gaming solutions.

clicker666 · Dec 8, 2006, 05:31 PM

I found the article kind of pointless.

"Four SLI cards will use a lot of power. I put four cards in and the computer told me they were ready for Quad SLI, although there could be a problem since I didn't have an SLI cable. I rebooted and benchmarked and it wasn't faster. Guess it wasn't SLI after all."

edit: I don't mean to be harsh. It's likely better than anything I could have written. I just didn't see a point.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Dec 8, 2006, 08:53 PM

although there may be a point to have 4 sli cards, its still retarded in my opinion. only the hardcore of geeks will drop their funds into it

Zeph · Dec 8, 2006, 09:32 PM

I'm no SLI person, but he said he didn't have an SLI cable. Wouldn't that mean he couldn't run quad SLI to begin with?

BlueMak · Dec 9, 2006, 12:09 AM

What is the point on having quad sli?
I can understand (though see no good reason to do so) use 2 cards in sli/crossfire, but 4?
Why are they even making motherboards like this?

SFOSOK · Dec 9, 2006, 04:23 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

What is the point on having quad sli?
I can understand (though see no good reason to do so) use 2 cards in sli/crossfire, but 4?
Why are they even making motherboards like this?

what is the point of bickering about who holds the speed title in the graphics industry?

Dec 8, 2006, 05:01 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	AMD Quad FX and NVIDIA's Four Card Quad-SLI - Will it Work? Read More/Source: Legit Reviews _______________ Now that the AMD Quad FX platform has been successfully benchmarked and overclocked, I can now have some fun with the system. With four x16 PCI Express slots present on the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS motherboard I figured why not populate all of them? At first I was going to use several NVIDIA GeForce 8 series graphics cards, but didn't have enough 6-pin PCIe power headers and all the cards I have take up too many PCI slots. With NVIDIA and ATI soon moving over to systems that contain three graphics cards (two for graphics and one for physics) the market will soon have power supplies with six 6-pin PCIe headers. For now not even the $599.99 PC Power & Cooling 1KW power supply has six PCIe connectors. It just goes to show that no matter how much you spend that you'l never be future proof. Upcoming power supplies like the Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W and 1200W power supplies will have six connectors and will be ready for both ATI's and NVIDIA's three card gaming solutions. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Dec 8, 2006, 05:31 PM	#2
clicker666 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 327 Rep Power: 0	I found the article kind of pointless. "Four SLI cards will use a lot of power. I put four cards in and the computer told me they were ready for Quad SLI, although there could be a problem since I didn't have an SLI cable. I rebooted and benchmarked and it wasn't faster. Guess it wasn't SLI after all." edit: I don't mean to be harsh. It's likely better than anything I could have written. I just didn't see a point. __________________

Dec 8, 2006, 08:53 PM	#3
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	although there may be a point to have 4 sli cards, its still retarded in my opinion. only the hardcore of geeks will drop their funds into it __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Dec 8, 2006, 09:32 PM	#4
Zeph DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 190 Rep Power: 0	I'm no SLI person, but he said he didn't have an SLI cable. Wouldn't that mean he couldn't run quad SLI to begin with? __________________

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