Nvidia 197.55 Drivers Enable 4-way Fermi SLI

[Marcus Yam]

Got the need for speed (and a lot of money)? This is the driver you've been waiting for.

Nvidia 197.55 Drivers Enable 4-way Fermi SLI : Read more

 

[coopchennick]

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

 

[rjkucia]

I can feel the heat from here already...

 

[dogofwars]

Hmmm 2000$ and beyond just in card wow 😉

 

[dogofwars]

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

 

[ryman546]

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

 

[bdcrlsn]

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

 

[warmon6]

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

 

[rhelme]

So do they make a 2000 watt power supply yet?

 

[tipmen]

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

 

[brother shrike]

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.

 

[pbrigido]

In other words:

"Cook your eggs 4 times as fast."

 

[titdoctor]

1 question.. why?

 

[winterblade]

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

 

[backin5]

Alternative title for this article:

"Nvidia 197.55 Drivers Enable Easy-Bake Oven"

 

[Snipergod87]

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

 

[micky_lund]

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

 

[danimal_the_animal]

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

 

[Blink]

But will they fry my 8800GTS?

 

[vsgm]

Does this card scale well in SLI? 😕

 

[saaiello]

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.

 

[saaiello]

[citation][nom]danimal_the_animal[/nom]WOW I wonder what kind of power supply has (8)x 8 pin power connectors...just CRAZY![/citation]

SILVERSTONE ST1500 1500W has 4 8 pin PCIE connectors and will run you $379.99

 

[Kelavarus]

[citation][nom]SAAIELLO[/nom]SILVERSTONE ST1500 1500W has 4 8 pin PCIE connectors and will run you $379.99[/citation]

Is that even enough to run 4 of these though?

 

[Guest]

/grabs marshmellows and stick

 

[shadow187]

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?