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EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:56 am
by Apoptosis
EVGA posted up some pictures yesterday of four EVGA GTX 480 SCs in 4-way SLI running heaven benchmark and I thought it was worth sharing as it's not every day you see $2000 worth of video cards in a single system.

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This last picture is of anothers 4-way or quad SLI GeForce GTX 480 setup:

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Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:04 am
by bubba
Wonder if that would pull less power then my furnace, with the heat that will put out I doubt I would need a furnace in the winter

Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:16 am
by kenc51
I'm still amazed that SLI & Xfire are still around. I was convinced this would never take off.
Would rather get a single card and spend the other $1500 on a nice holiday away somewhere than 4x GTX480's
Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:16 am
by skier
kenc51 wrote:I'm still amazed that SLI & Xfire are still around. I was convinced this would never take off.
Would rather get a single card and spend the other $1500 on a nice holiday away somewhere than 4x GTX480's
sli/xfire is good for lower end cards for the bang for the buck factor, the performance scalability has made leaps and bounds in the past few years
Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:30 pm
by geokilla
Wonder what the temperatures would be like when placed in a case.
Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:34 pm
by hark
Each card has over three billion transistors so altogether that's over twelve billion transistors!
Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:31 pm
by DX
don't forget the CPUs transistors in your count =)
Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:46 pm
by stereo55
Yikes . Man I dont mind SLi , SLi w/Phsix or even Tri-SLi as Ive see first hand how well the "can" work ; but quad cards is getting abit much imo . More power to ya if ya got the $cash$ I guess , but devopers cant cant even make a good game lately , or even one that would take advantage of all those cards .
It does look cool , but practicality and funds will prevent me from ever going that route (Eh , but I said that way back when , with SLi too at one point

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Re: EVGA Gets 4-way SLI Running on GeForce GTX 480 Video Cards
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:23 am
by DJ Tucker
suddenly EVGA get an estimated bill fall at there feet for £1000's

the power needed for these cards is mad let alone 4 of them!