The power of 3D: 4 video cards in 1 motherboard

The ice is broken. As many have suspected, it has become possible to run 4 NVIDIA cards in one motherboard. The evidence was provided by Gigabyte.

Gigabyte was the first to commercialize the dual 3GT called 1D6600, so it’s no surprise that their engineers managed to create the GA-8N-SLI Quad motherboard, which could also run 4 NVIDIA cards. There are 2 (!) SLI chipsets on the motherboard and it is reported that the motherboard can operate in two modes. The first will be the use of 3D1 with two dual GPUs, the other four video cards. The motherboard can accommodate socket 775-encapsulated Intel processors, supports 4GB of DDR2 memory, has four SATA II ports, ten USB 2.0 and three IEE1394a.

As an interesting point, I would like to mention that the ATI solution "Crossfire\\" presented at Computex will reportedly be released as a solution with a maximum of 2 or 4 GPUs, although in principle up to 32 GPUs could work side by side.