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GeForce GTX 480 Supports 4-way SLI?

Postby cas » Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:07 am

Soon after EVGA laid its hands on stocks of GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards, it claims from an internal test that 4-way SLI is possible on the reference design GTX 480 graphics cards. The GTX 480 was advertised to work with up to two more of its kind in 3-way SLI, in NVIDIA's presentations to the press. EVGA's feat of running four GTX 480 cards was possible on its X58 Classified 4-way SLI motherboard, which has room for four graphics cards, and a special SLI bridge that connects to four NVIDIA graphics cards with two SLI interconnect bridges each. EVGA released a special-edition GeForce GTX 285 4-way SLI ready graphics card to go with the motherboard.

The EVGA X58 Classified 4-way SLI isn't the only motherboard to support 4-way SLI, the recently released EVGA Classified SR2 also ships with the special SLI bridge. No other motherboard vendor released a 4-way bridge, yet. EVGA demonstrated the 4-way SLI setup with a run of Unigine Heaven, although it did not give away any performance numbers. 4-way SLI is not to be confused with Quad-SLI, which is also a four-GPU SLI configuration, but involves a 2-way SLI connection between two dual-GPU graphics cards (such as GeForce 9800 GX2, GTX 295, MARS). Any SLI-supportive motherboard supports Quad-SLI


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Re: GeForce GTX 480 Supports 4-way SLI?

Postby Mr. Chris » Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:18 am

$2,000 USD worth of video cards? :shock: Not for this poor white boy. :?
1)Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3, FX4100 Bulldozer, 8Gb G Skill Sniper 1866, EVGA GTX560Ti, 2x 500Gb SATA II, DVDRW, Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit RTM
2)stupid board died already *pfffftttt*
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Re: GeForce GTX 480 Supports 4-way SLI?

Postby cas » Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:20 am

Mr. Chris wrote:$2,000 USD worth of video cards? :shock: Not for this poor white boy. :?


LOL @ chris...... ya moreover i doubt one could see much improvement while gaming? ;)
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Re: GeForce GTX 480 Supports 4-way SLI?

Postby Bill1024 » Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:50 am

cas wrote:
Mr. Chris wrote:$2,000 USD worth of video cards? :shock: Not for this poor white boy. :?


LOL @ chris...... ya moreover i doubt one could see much improvement while gaming? ;)


No, but the points one could get Folding@Home.
I don't see one any time soon in my mail box either.
But 4 running 24/7 @ 100% load, the electric bill would be crazy high.
Would need an extra a/c unit to keep the room cool too.
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Re: GeForce GTX 480 Supports 4-way SLI?

Postby Mr. Chris » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:29 am

Not to mention the PSU you would need to power all that tech. :shock:
1)Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3, FX4100 Bulldozer, 8Gb G Skill Sniper 1866, EVGA GTX560Ti, 2x 500Gb SATA II, DVDRW, Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit RTM
2)stupid board died already *pfffftttt*
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