Nvidia 197.55 Drivers Enable 4-way Fermi SLI

In other news, Iran is negotiating with nVidia in hopes to acquire this nuclear reactor.

I can feel the heat from here already...

Hmmm 2000$ and beyond just in card wow

That'll keep many a basement cozy during the winter months.

-Hey it's hot today
-No it's just the neighbor using a 4 Way SLI 480 GTX
- !???

lol yes they pack some heat. Alot of power cranking out of them though.

Fire up those cards! Need a little more heat to cook my marshmallow

So do they make a 2000 watt power supply yet?

Great Scott! You will need a fission reactor to power that rig.

The drivers may allow it, but the laws of physics don't. There's no way you can use four of those things without your rig melting.

In other words:

"Cook your eggs 4 times as fast."

1 question.. why?

Am I the only one that is getting links to 2006ish news instead the regular next or previous article??

Alternative title for this article:

"Nvidia 197.55 Drivers Enable Easy-Bake Oven"

fromt he article tom's published a link to before you are screwed unless you have an i7 980, the cpu load on an i7 965 is to much... This build would cost a hug amount of money and a rather big PSU. Ont he other hand you dont need heading in the winter, and yo can single handly melt icebergs now lol

lol..who would waste this much money on SLi? they showed somewhere that the 4th card gave like an extra 12.7% performance...
so 4 cards would give around 270% performance over 1 card... somehow i dont think this is worth the extra price, and the cost of the mobo and PSU

WOW I wonder what kind of power supply has (8)x 8 pin power connectors...just CRAZY!

But will they fry my 8800GTS?

Does this card scale well in SLI?

I wonder if those slots cut into the PCB helps them cool better but dam that would be one crazy power hungry case melting monster.

Silverstone has a 1500 watt PSU that is certified for 3 way SLI I am pretty sure it could most likely power all 4 no problem but dam thats almost $400 just for a power supply to even run these cards.

/grabs marshmellows and stick

Considering that you'll need 28A per card (a single rail at 112A), a total of 1120W, that leaves you 380W. Now you'll need a 100W CPU (95W), so that's 10a and 100W. 122A and 1220W for the GPU/CPU, put in 80 for the rest of the system (MOBO/RAM/FANS/HDD/DVD, (8A)), you're at 122A on the 12v and 1300W. That leaves you 200W for OC'ing headroom. Not much, is it?

Previous Tom's article gave a link to a website showing the power usage and performance of 4X GTX 480. As stated previously, only a 12% increase in performance compared to 3X, and a massive power draw of 950+ watts. Insanity. Anyone willing to do that for that slight of a performance enhancement is punching the planet in the kidneys.

I can't wait till I can order a second eVGA GTX 480 FTW. Unfortunately it was one per customer and now they're sold out at the moment.

Personally I'll just be using two psu's for quad SLI once the eVGA SR2 starts shipping. That'll let me keep both PSU's closer to their sweet spot for efficiency rather than trying to load it all up on one psu. Probably something like Mobo/1GPU/everything else on psu1 and 3GPU on psu2.

Next driver revision will support 4-way power supply SLI :-)

Is is Christmas time again? "Chestnuts roasting by an Nvidia fire".