New Gigabyte Quad GPU Motherboard?

[Ryan]

What do you all think of this crazy product?

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=180

[rehtaf]

Interesting board but I have no use for it. Even if the quad sli did work, I cant see myself dropping $1200-2000 on video cards. There very well may be some professionals who may be able to take advantage of than many displays though.

[scrandman]

Extreme overkill. By the time any game requires 4xSLI, the CPU & chipset will be obsolete.

[nub]

It's a Novelty, nothing that will last in my opinion. It would work well as a heavy workstation machine but there's not much market for that. I don't see the enthusiast market really going for it either. Not a lot of people have the money to shell out good money on a motherboard and even more for 4 high-end video cards. Plus instead of 4 lower/mid-end video cards (provided that all 4 can work in SLI mode) it might be best to save some money on the MB hefty price and get two higher-end video cards in SLI mode with a cheaper MB instead.

[vine-au]

a gimmick, one i'd love to own though - 8 monitors is pimp. hehe

[Ryan]

But does the idea of running SLI mode in two of the PCIe slots with say, two 7800 GTXs, and still having two monitors running by putting in an old 6600 PCIe or something in a third slot appeal to people? I know it does to me; I must have multi-monitors to work efficiently now and constantly disabling and enabling a monitor to run games in SLI mode is kind of annoying...

[nub]

If the third card will be for web surfing, word documents, and even 2d graphic design, something like a Radeon 9000 on a PCI slot would suffice.

[_dangtx_]

*4 dual-core 7800's drool

nice!!!

[MousePotato]

4X 7800GTX .... gezz, can we say power hungry

[steven975]

*4 dual-core 7800's drool

nice!!!

can't be done as each core uses 8 lanes or the 16x slot. Thus, with this board, it would be like running 4 single core cards at 8x. The other cores would sit unused.

[nero]

But does the idea of running SLI mode in two of the PCIe slots with say, two 7800 GTXs, and still having two monitors running by putting in an old 6600 PCIe or something in a third slot appeal to people? I know it does to me; I must have multi-monitors to work efficiently now and constantly disabling and enabling a monitor to run games in SLI mode is kind of annoying...

Ryan, Matrox already makes a 1x PCIe video card with dual outputs:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstatio.../g550_PCIe.cfm

So you can have that kind of functionality with current motherboards.

[boardsportsrule]

as interesting as it is, i fear it will be impracticle for the average user, as well as too expesnive for most...for some it will be great, but for the rest its one more reason that we want more money

[3dfxrain]

too much for what I need