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NVIDIA enables Quad SLI for everyone with money |
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Written by Mavke
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
Each GeForce 7950 GX2 boards still costs around $600 plus but on August the 9th NVIDIA will officially release a new driver that supports a Quad SLI configuration, along with the list of verified motherboards and accompanied with an extensive do-it-yourself guide. This should allow users to complete their custom build Quad SLI systems or buy another GeForce 7950 GX2 card and jump on the quad train. Until now NVIDIA's Quad SLI was supported only through trained professional system integrators due to NVIDIA's gut feeling, that Quad SLI is too complex product to release to the public without proper support. It seems the time has come to unleach the power to the masses.
 NVIDIA enables Quad SLI for everyone with money
NVIDIA obviously managed to massage its drivers, due to the fact that beta driver for Quad SLI slipped to public at the end of July. Quad SLI should work on both, AMD and Intel platforms, on any SLI motherboard even the CrossFire ones with the basic requirement, that it has two PCI Express x16 slots. Power requirement? The answer is hidden not in the small print, but in the verified PSU list, there is not one with less than 700W and they go up to 1 KW and beyond. One odd thing we noticed on the verified motherboard list is that it opens with ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, which builds on ATI's CrossFire 3200 chipset.
It looks like NVIDIA has no more bad feelings for its now ex-competitor. Quad SLI allows 32x AntiAliasing, the maximum level possible today, and offers in supported games the world's fastest performance in any given resolution.
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