EVGA 4 way SLI

Not sure if this has been posted

EVGA new motherboard is coming out in about 2 weeks

Videocards may be catching up to CPUs with this:

This will also leave you broke though.

http://www.evga.com/articles/00501/

Nvidia cant even get 2-way SLI to scale correctly in games.

Now were supposed to believe there gonna do any better with 4-way?

Seriously, 2-way SLI should have been perfected by now.

Just buy a single GTX295 and enjoy it.

lol, too bad the previous version had terrible overheating problems on the North and South bridge....

This is fail.

this is just ridiculious.

That many PCI-E ports are ****ing pointless!

Wow, a lot of hate here. Lets wait and see how it performs before bashing.

Wow, a lot of hate here. Lets wait and see how it performs before bashing.

sleepingzzz

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Wow, a lot of hate here. Lets wait and see how it performs before bashing.

Daytona_178

Says who?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i7-multigpu-sli-crossfire-game-performance-review/1

Link shows that they needed to over clock the I7 to get the increase fps when having more than 2 GPUs. Note that the increase is huge.

Stick a Hydra chip on it and I might be interested.

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="sleepingzzz"]

Wow, a lot of hate here. Lets wait and see how it performs before bashing.

sleepingzzz

Says who?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i7-multigpu-sli-crossfire-game-performance-review/1

Link shows that they needed to over clock the I7 to get the increase fps when having more than 2 GPUs. Note that the increase is huge.

Looks awesome! now we can finally migrate from 2x 295's or 3x 285's and a 9800gt (although 'we' doesn't include me :() can't wait to see other people's ridiculous setups though!

The EVGA 4 way sli classified and the GTX 285 classified are targeted toward those that do a lot of benchtesting rather than gamers. The 4 way sli setup is geared for high overclocking.jtcraft

Parts are produced to run at stock speeds. And who needs to overclock an I7 to fulfill his needs can really shoot himself in the head. And by the way, who needs benchtesting? That is ridiculous. If you have a PC that runs all that you want, you do not need a benchmark of 4 way SLI. After all, benhmarks are completely useless, except in rare situations to determine if some component is underperforming. The bad thing is, most "enthusiasts" don't use it for that, but to be on a top list of some stupid site and be someone "with a killa rig" brings joy to them. I despise such people.

Either way i gurantee you there will be some guy with like quad 300GTX, 1tb sssd's, i9 6.0ghz oc'ed, 16gb ddr4 ram.RedxSniper

[QUOTE="RedxSniper"]Either way i gurantee you there will be some guy with like quad 300GTX, 1tb sssd's, i9 6.0ghz oc'ed, 16gb ddr4 ram.samuraiguns

Wow. I hope that a customer needs one of those.... Would love to bench that.

[QUOTE="samuraiguns"][QUOTE="RedxSniper"]Either way i gurantee you there will be some guy with like quad 300GTX, 1tb sssd's, i9 6.0ghz oc'ed, 16gb ddr4 ram.jtcraft

Well I would too, but those guys are saddists that intend solely (yes, I'm quoting mods) to annoy other people. I wouldn't use it for that.

[QUOTE="jtcraft"][QUOTE="samuraiguns"] there is always "that" guy.Slig0

Well I would too, but those guys are saddists that intend solely (yes, I'm quoting mods) to annoy other people. I wouldn't use it for that.

Dude, you seem to be the only guy that would be annoyed at someone having a better system than you.

I see a lot of your posts with the same tone. Again, chill.

folding

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[QUOTE="jtcraft"] Wish I could afford to be that guy.dforeigner

Well I would too, but those guys are saddists that intend solely (yes, I'm quoting mods) to annoy other people. I wouldn't use it for that.

Dude, you seem to be the only guy that would be annoyed at someone having a better system than you.

I see a lot of your posts with the same tone. Again, chill.

Or for an NVIDIA solution: - 2x GTX 295's, which would either cover four of the slots with air cooling, or could possibly be squeezed to two with water cooling (assuming there are low-profile blocks for these cards)

codezer0

BFG sells several single slot water cooled 295's 285's and 280's they use danger den blocks. So yes there are low-profile blocks available for these cards.

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Or for an NVIDIA solution: - 2x GTX 295's, which would either cover four of the slots with air cooling, or could possibly be squeezed to two with water cooling (assuming there are low-profile blocks for these cards)

Lyron-Baktos

BFG sells several single slot water cooled 295's 285's and 280's they use danger den blocks. So yes there are low-profile blocks available for these cards.

The board isn't even out yet.

sleepingzzz

That board may or may not be out, but Asus has had quad slots motherboards for a while, already:

ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

ASUS M4A79T Deluxe AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Oh, but wouldn't that be considered 2-way Crossfire? If so, then nevermind.

Wait a second, how does 4-way SLI work anyway? Wouldn't you need 8 pci-e slots? I only count 7 PCI-e slots in that EVGA picture. I also note that they don't say at what rate the PCI-e slots will be running at. For those Asus boards I linked, Single Pairing is at 16x, but then it starts kicking down after that. 4 cards are set to run at 8x.

Then there is that sentence: "In addition to this innovative graphics card, EVGA is also announcing the EVGA X58 clas-sifed 4-Way SLI Edition, this motherboard has an impressive 7 PCIe Expansion slots allowing you to combine up to 4 EVGA GTX 285 Graphics cards for extreme performance!"

If they are only using 4 cards, does that mean 4 cards = 4-way? If so, then why pile 7 PCI-e slots onto the MB? What would anyone need 3 extras for? Is it because, they expect them to be blocked by the video card? And if that is the case, why not just space them out, more?

And what's with that sentence about, "An additional 6-pin power plug for a total of 640w to GPU and video memory! Per card!" 640watts per card? What PSU is going to support 640watts x 4? And since when did a single video card need that much wattage, anyway?

[QUOTE="sleepingzzz"]

The board isn't even out yet.

Threesixtyci

That board may or may not be out, but Asus has had quad slots motherboards for a while, already:

ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

ASUS M4A79T Deluxe AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Oh, but wouldn't that be considered 2-way Crossfire? If so, then nevermind.

Wait a second, how does 4-way SLI work anyway? Wouldn't you need 8 pci-e slots? I only count 7 PCI-e slots in that EVGA picture. I also note that they don't say at what rate the PCI-e slots will be running at. For those Asus boards I linked, Single Pairing is at 16x, but then it starts kicking down after that. 4 cards are set to run at 8x.

Then there is that sentence: "In addition to this innovative graphics card, EVGA is also announcing the EVGA X58 clas-sifed 4-Way SLI Edition, this motherboard has an impressive 7 PCIe Expansion slots allowing you to combine up to 4 EVGA GTX 285 Graphics cards for extreme performance!"

If they are only using 4 cards, does that mean 4 cards = 4-way? If so, then why pile 7 PCI-e slots onto the MB? What would anyone need 3 extras for? Is it because, they expect them to be blocked by the video card? And if that is the case, why not just space them out, more?

And what's with that sentence about, "An additional 6-pin power plug for a total of 640w to GPU and video memory! Per card!" 640watts per card? What PSU is going to support 640watts x 4? And since when did a single video card need that much wattage, anyway?

So, why the 7 PCI-e 16X slots? Seems like overkill.

Heh, I find their video to be pretty funny. They claim it to be the fastest, then they show a bunch of guys using a dissembled system, and them pouring liquid nitrogen, or something, all over it.

Some cards I have seen look as though they would plug into one slot, and be so tall they would fill the pace over a second slot. if you got those fat cards it would be 3 cards each plugging into 1 space and covering the slot for another space, and a 4th card in a slot that does not have an 8th slot to fill over, but would not be a problem because of there being space anyways.

So, why the 7 PCI-e 16X slots? Seems like overkill.Threesixtyci

[QUOTE="Threesixtyci"]So, why the 7 PCI-e 16X slots? Seems like overkill.Luminouslight

[QUOTE="Luminouslight"][QUOTE="Threesixtyci"]So, why the 7 PCI-e 16X slots? Seems like overkill.Threesixtyci