Saturday, September 29th 2007
NVIDIA Triple SLI: the “Ultimate Gaming Platform”
It looks like NVIDIA could be readying its new triple SLI platform if a slide published by Expreview is to be believed. The new three-way SLI will allow users to use three NVIDIA graphics cards simultaneously to run demanding 3D applications, although there are still very few details about it at present. The technology is being branded as "The new Ultimate Gaming Platform" by NVIDIA, and will work using a new three-way SLI bridge connector, with NVIDIA's nForce 680i and 780i being the first chipsets to support it. If this slide is for real, then the GeForce 8800 Ultra and GTX will be the only cards capable of triple SLI to start with, but presumaby more will follow soon after - if triple SLI is more successful than quad SLI that is (which was largely let down by poor drivers). ATI is also planning to use three graphics cards with its CrossFire technology in the near future, where one card is expected to be dedicated to physics processing.
Source:
X-bit labs
83 Comments on NVIDIA Triple SLI: the “Ultimate Gaming Platform”
have they gone mad?
For real why not stick to one badass video card I mean whats next Gaming clusters where you hook up 4 quad core pc's with 12 video cards. Think about it you would need a dedicated house and you own power station.
Now if Crysis needs 3 x 9800 ULTRAs to run at max settings, then F$#% PC Gaming
Now the Quad never worked right from what I have read. So I have a hard time believing that this will.
I think the only reason for this is because of AMDs new chipset coming out. They don't want to get stomped in 3dmark06 too bad IMO. But ATi will be doing 4 2900Xts soon!!!!
I beleive when he talked about the width he was referring to kwchang007's joke about people buying three graphics cards to get a longer e-penis, not the size of the cards themselves!
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