SLI with quad graphics cards?

[DAve]

This is just mental!
A mobo with 4 graphics cards running in quad formation woudl kick so much arse!
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050526_155843.html

[Exuus]

http://img120.echo.cx/img120/3532/motherofgod8zk.jpg

[weeble]

And soon, for your kitchen, quadralinked dishwashers! Taking up only the space of four normal dishwashers, these devices are specially pipelined to enable a consistently high throughput of pots, pans, cutlery and crockery. Never before have you experienced such dazzlingly clean and fast tableware!

Weeble.

[Bluepixie]

I wonder how much that baby is going to cost.....
And on top of that, all the DDR2 chips and SLI cards you'll need to make full use of it.....mother of god indeed.

Unreal 3 at 1600x1200 with full anti-aliasing and anti-strophic filtering. Full detail.
:shock:

[DAve]

You think that's bad, think of the power requirements!
An SLI rig takes up a power supply of at least 550W, double that and that's a kilowatt. You're starting to talk about the output of a bar fire in a PC. Something's got to give :)

[Bluepixie]

Heck, just go the whole hog and go nuclear. Have a nice little reactor powering your rig. :D

[Hex]

Lol I think "overkill" would be an appropriate word here. Besides, think of the upgrade issues - when you wanna upgrade your rig a year or two after building it, you are faced with the bill for not 1 but 4 top of the range gfx cards. You'd be looking at bills for close to a grand lol. Given a magical credit card where one doesn't have to pay the bills, i'd love a sys like this, but who the hell would be able to afford it in reality? Oh and by the by, if any of you EVER turn up to a LAN with one of these machines I might be forced to kill you.....:P