[Deepblue]

Imagine tearing through today's most advanced PC games with an unheard of 41 gigapixels per second of raw graphics performance, 5.2 teraflops of compute power, 96 pixel pipes, and an astounding 2 GB of on-board graphics memory. Nothing can stop you when you have this kind of hardware on your side.

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES)—LAS VEGAS, NV—JANUARY 05, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) took its acclaimed SLI technology to a new level today by introducing support for the industry's first ever Quad SLI-certified PC. Delivering the most extreme high definition gaming experience available on the PC, Quad SLI features four of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce® 7800 GTX GPUs with an NVIDIA nForce®4 SLI X16 motherboard. This revolutionary technology was introduced today on the forthcoming Dell XPS 600 Renegade, as part of a keynote presentation by Michael Dell at CES in Las Vegas, NV.

John Medica, senior vice president, Product Group at Dell, stated: "Our demonstration of the first Quad SLI PC with NVIDIA is a major technology innovation, that when combined with the Dell XPS 600 Renegade and the new Dell 30-inch flat panel makes true high definition gaming a reality."

NVIDIA Quad SLI technology allows consumers to:

Run today's hottest games at extreme high definition (HD) resolutions-including an unbelievable 2560x1600 -- at silky smooth frame rates


Crank up their image quality with 32x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering


Maximize their shader and texture settings for a truly immersive gaming experience

"Today's demonstration of the new Dell XPS 600 Renegade with our Quad SLI technology takes gaming to new levels," said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. "The ability to run today's hottest titles in extreme HD resolutions with all the eye candy turned on is absolutely amazing. Strap yourself in, because you are in for the ride of your life."

In addition, NVIDIA announced that Dell will be shipping the award-winning NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 in the Dell XPS 600 PC.

As part of this technology demonstration, the Dell XPS 600 Renegade Quad SLI PC will be on display in the Dell booth (South Hall # 36521) and NVIDIA booth (South Hall #36200) at CES 2006, January 5-8th, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Holy bloody crap.

[Jeryko]

 

Me wanty.

[Unknown Target]

Um, yea, like I have 1200+ for FOUR video cards.

[Deepblue]

Me wanty.

Through nefarious means.

[CP5670]

heh, this coincides with the release of their 30" LCD. There is a flash animation of the thing here:
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html

Pretty cool, but until they get the vsync working right it's not very useful even if you could afford it.

[Stealth]

i think at this stage it's more about bragging rights


just like no one needs a car that has a top speed of 220 miles per hour.


still... extremely cool

[IPAndrews]

I wish Nvidia spent as much time on R&D and innovation as they did trying to squeeze conventional chips onto OTT boards.

[Ghostavo]

Um, yea, like I have 1200+ for FOUR top of the line video cards.

 

[Martinus]

He's saying that he doesn't have that kind of cash Ghostavo.

Unless I'm missing something about the intent of your reply?

[Flipside]

I'm with Stealth on this one, for my own part, let's see a little more effort going into content and then they wouldn't have to worry as much about blinding people with their Pixel Shaders. It's been proved time and time again that if it's a good game, people don't actually care.

[Ghostavo]

I agree with him but I completed the quote to corresponde even more to how I feel...

[pyro-manic]

To be perfectly honest, anyone who actually buys one of those is an idiot of the first order. There's no game that requires anything approaching that kind of power, and by the time there is there will be more powerful cards available for a lot less money.

[Sandwich]

I love Dell hardware. 30" LCD.

[Roanoke]

i think at this stage it's more about bragging rights


just like no one needs a car that has a top speed of 220 miles per hour.


still... extremely cool

or a frickin' huge tuned V8.....

[Tyrian]

I got one of those machines...In one of my wilder dreams 

[pyro-manic]

Your dreams suck. That ain't wild....

[CP5670]

I love Dell hardware. 30" LCD.

It actually has lame specs apart from the size and resolution. I wish they would bring on the SEDs already. I can't wait.

To be perfectly honest, anyone who actually buys one of those is an idiot of the first order. There's no game that requires anything approaching that kind of power, and by the time there is there will be more powerful cards available for a lot less money.

Actually if you buy that and use it for a 30" Dell, it's still not going to be enough for COD2.

[ZylonBane]

Why the hell would you even need to antialias a 2560x1600 image at all, let alone 32x antialiasing? The whole frickin' point of AA is to compensate for a low-res output device.

[CP5670]

The pixel size is still around the same as smaller monitors. You would have to sit far away from it to not notice the jagged edges. Maybe if you had that IBM T221 with its 3840x2400 resolution on a 22" screen, AA may not be quite as important, but this new Dell has a higher pixel size than my monitor at its maximum resolution, at which the jagged edges are still quite apparent with no AA at all.

That being said, I doubt there is much of a difference beyond 4x combined AA, since at higher resolutions small levels of AA tend to remove the jagged edges completely, which is different from even heavy AA at low resolutions.