Sunday, September 9th 2007
MSI K9A2 and AMD RD790 Pictures/Details and QuadFire Rumors Emerge
While Intel is preparing to move on to a 45nm micro-architecture, AMD is preparing true quad-core processors, and working on a quad-graphics card solution. The technology that will allow for four graphics cards to be stuck in one system will be called "QuadFire", and there are no major details out at this time, other than the name and pictures of supporting motherboards. The chipset supporting "QuadFire" is AMD's own RD790, which is pictured below in MSI's K9A2 motherboard. The RD790 is designed to work with a Phenom processor, has six SATA ports, and two E-SATA ports.
Pictures courtesy of OCWorkbench.
Source:
The Inquirer
Pictures courtesy of OCWorkbench.
14 Comments on MSI K9A2 and AMD RD790 Pictures/Details and QuadFire Rumors Emerge
Should be good.
But honestly, I don't imagine it would scale all that well past 2 cards. That's where my SATA ports are, in relation to my gfx slot. Everything fits fine with my 2900XT. These shouldn't pose a problem at all.
EDIT: Just thought of another possibility- Dual Crossfire. Run 2 separate sets of crossfire. I'm sure that could come in handy. Kinda like running 2 cards, not in Crossfire, for multi display purposes, only now, you have Crossfire performance on 4 monitors.