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
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83 Comments on NVIDIA Triple SLI: the “Ultimate Gaming Platform”

#77
panchoman
Sold my stars!
im wondering how many people will actually get the triple sli thing. good thing ati's 3rd card is suppossedly suppossed to be a physics card that also processes stuff for the gpus, so its like a multipurpose assistant.
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#78
keakar
InfDamarvelI would think theyd make SLI more efficient before anything. Its not like adding another card now doubles performance.
ya but it "does" double profits
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#79
keakar
nflesher87lol only way to cool that would be to have a super high speed wc'ing loop hooked up to a car radiator that's hanging in your freezer!:laugh:
no, just box in the video card area like a psu is enclosed then have one large fan blowing through and accross as many cards as you want to use. in the same sort of way a fan pulls air over heatsinks in a psu.

because of clearances and size there wont be any way to use the gpu coolers we have now and the stock coolers wont work that close together.
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#80
DaMulta
My stars went supernova
ktrFor every person who does a triple sli with ultras, 25 baby seals get clubbed...
I KNOW

They should have 4 HD2900XT cards on the new MSI board coming soon.

3Dmark06 WORLD RECORD TIME:toast:
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#81
DRDNA
Fuse-Wirehow the hell are you ment to cool all that graphic power? i wouldnt dare try to overclock!!
I would dare to:D
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#82
panchoman
Sold my stars!
keakarno, just box in the video card area like a psu is enclosed then have one large fan blowing through and accross as many cards as you want to use. in the same sort of way a fan pulls air over heatsinks in a psu.

because of clearances and size there wont be any way to use the gpu coolers we have now and the stock coolers wont work that close together.
the cooler master cosmos as something similair ot that.
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#83
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
ATI has been touting triple crossfire for sometime now, Nvidia is just late to the party.

I think its awesome, yes. I also think its overkill, overly expensive and I think there will be no need to overclock at all with all them gpus, it would be plainly stupid to do so.
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