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Alright I was looking at mobos with the idea in mind that I would use my current x1900xt in it and later get another one and use it in Xfire when the market caught up. But then I saw a Quad SLi mobo. Does this mean you can put 4 video cards in it?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] sp?EdpNo=2 896656&CatId=2541

Because I swear that board looks like it has 2x PCIe slots at x16 and 2 PCIe x1 slots and another PCIe slot between 2 regular PCI ports.

I would get that board with the idea that if I ever needed to I could upgrade.

With that in mind are your recommendations for mobos around 200 bucks or a really good board for less than that that is just as good?

And would you SLI or Crossfire.............IMO crossfire makes more sense because of the cost vs performance of the 2 brands.

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nVidia doesn't even have listed on their driver supported list the 7900GX2 Quad SLI card, so there's very little hope for quad SLI support in the forseeable future. (And the current support is horrible, for the 7900GX2 and 7950GX2)

 

http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/08/14/cyberpower_and_falcon_northwest_go_quad_sli/cyberpower-cabling-hdds.jpg

 

good idea, poor execution...


Message edited by emp on 08-14-2007 at 01:08:40 AM
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I believe that AMD is working on quad crossfire. In fact, I think when they were demoing Barcelona they had a PC with four hd2900s in it.

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I love it..............its cool. MORE=BETTER!! But seriously, there arent alot of apps or games out now that even recognize 2 cards. I think I'll just stick with crossfire or sli...........and when 4 cards becomes mainstream than I'll upgrade.

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The demo has 3x 2900xt's in it. 2 were connected with xfire and one presumably through software, I say presumably because there was no xfire bridge and there wouldnt be much point of it being in there if it wasnt thru software, would be doing nothing :D

 


I think I read the new AMD boards can either have 2x cpu slots with xfire or 1cpu slot with 4x PCI-E slots. Either 16x16 or 8x8x8x8.

 

Thats what I THINK I read.

 
barthautala wrote :

I
love it..............its cool. MORE=BETTER!! But seriously, there arent
alot of apps or games out now that even recognize 2 cards. I think I'll
just stick with crossfire or sli...........and when 4 cards becomes
mainstream than I'll upgrade.


Thats unlikely, if anything it would be 4gpu's on one card.

 


EDIT: sorry, there were infact 3x 2900xt's using xfire dridges, so basically tri-fire lol.


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