Tuesday, January 8th 2008
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Foxconn Shows Off Quad CrossFire Motherboard
Foxconn is showing off its impressive new Quad CrossFire motherboard at CES, which features no less than 10 slots - four PCI-E 16x, four PCI-E 1x and two standard PCI. The motherboard also has a watercooled northbridge and southbridge. I'll let the pictures say the rest.
Source:
VR-Zone
59 Comments on Foxconn Shows Off Quad CrossFire Motherboard
Did you see the power input? :eek: 24pin + 24pin + 8pin + 4pin(molex). This needs a redundant PSU. A totally impractical board. yuck. Intel did a much better job with the Skulltrail.
you can't just build a chip that can go no farther in development
And what chipset would it be using for Crossfire-X??...A P45 maybe??
but it does look nice , i think i can fit that mobo in my UFO-U2 case easily ........... =P
I think those two chips are for cards to communicate, like those on 3870X2
Second, it looks like the watercooling will go out the I/O panel.
Third, there actually is a somewhat regular case out w/ 10 expansion slots: Thermaltake Xaser VI.
Lastly, it is actually possible to do quad-crossfire with 4x HD 3870s (Space-wise) right now thanks to the Sapphire Atomic HD3870 (Single slot cooler which cools better than the stock dual slot)
And theres mah two-cents.
-Indybird
-Indybird
Nice to see ATI has proven they can do 4 cards before nVidia has. I doubt seriously we'd ever see something like this at the consumer level, though.
nVidia AND 3dfx proved that QUAD SINGLE anything doesn't really work (it terms of practicality), with the SLI'd 7950GX2 and the Voodoo 5 variations... I mean, really, honestly, who could resist FOUR (netburst)PENTIUMs linked with an 800Mhz FSB!?! and it only takes half a kilowatt (or in this case, a full Kilowatt)!!!
Technology will keep moving forward. Old-tech*4 isnt going to cut it, especially when it is this cumbersome. wtf, mate... wtf.
I certainly can't afford something like this now, but if I ever win the lottery, there better be toys like this available for me to play with!
Though with that kind of money, probably just get one of the major manufacturers to custom build me a motherboard. Finally I could get what I want on one.