Dual Sli Monster

[ol' man]

Those taiwan fellas.

This is called the quad royal.

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0509/readhotarticle.asp?id=4417

 

[Hoyle]

Hmmm... Considering the rather poor scaling of typical SLI (two cards, twice the cost, twice the power consumption, maybe a 5-25% performance increase, depending)... I wonder what you get with four cards, and four times the cost, and four times the power consumption?

I'm guessing an additional 2-10%...

But boy does it sell video cards, eh?

 

[Tuxy]

I want it! Just for the novelty

 

[ThePerson98]

That looks cool, but just imagine the price! 900 watt power supply, 200 bucks, video cards 1000-2000 bucks.

 

[Bennyboy]

That looks cool, but just imagine the price! 900 watt power supply, 200 bucks, video cards 1000-2000 bucks.

But...

Heating Bill -$200
Saving on winter clothes -$300 (You won't be going out anywhere)
Saving on nights out -$500 (see above)
Pure gaming joy, bragging rights, and not being able to hear your missus over the whine of all those fans?...

...Priceless!

 

[ThreeOnTheTree]

It might be worth it, if only so you could sell it on eBay 5 years later. Look at the Voodoo5 6000. 3dfx only made like 50 of those quad-GPU monstrosities. They sell on eBay for a small fortune, IIRC.

 

[ol' man]

I would want it too run my eight monitors in non SLI mode but with video acceleration across them all.

Or at least 4 monitors with SLi. I would put 4 of the $350 512mb 6800GT's in it and have a hay day with my 3D modeling.