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Quadtet: Nvidia GeForce 7900 Quad SLI Performance Unveiled

Started by: fallguy | Date 04/30/06 06:20:50 AM
Comments: 48 | Last Comment:  02/24/08 11:04:30 PM

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Why no AA tests with Oblivion? I know that NV cards cannot do HDR+AA in it, but disabling HDR, and enabling AA would be great.
[Posted by: fallguy | Date: 04/30/06 06:20:52 AM]
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2. 
could we get power comsumption tests?
[Posted by: AmpedSilence | Date: 04/30/06 06:59:01 AM]
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3. 
what a waste of 2 chips! and I thought SLi was giberrish with 2, with 4 is total wallet ownage
[Posted by: SaberJ2X | Date: 04/30/06 08:33:29 AM]

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Well, the system was shipped with a 660W PSU so power consumption cant be THAT high. I think its about 200W only for the graphics.
[Posted by: 1234 | Date: 04/30/06 08:50:43 AM]

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I can't understand these NVidia people...
How can they produce such crap?
What are they smoking?!
[Posted by: qgde3rt | Date: 04/30/06 10:02:33 AM]

6. 
Well, I think that the people who bought those Dell Renegades just wasted their money for crashes, freezes, and the like. Nvidia should have spent more time testing and more tweaking. Oh well... I hope ATi won't collide with the same problems if they have any plans for Quad Crossfire.
[Posted by: Whey | Date: 04/30/06 10:03:14 AM]

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surely this article is premature? Everything wrong with these cards seem to be driver related. I'm no Nvidia fanboy but the fact is, one good Nvidia driver before May 1st could make this article look real stupid...
[Posted by: jim | Date: 04/30/06 10:40:10 AM]

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Truth is, the majority of people who spend the $10,000 or so on the Quad SLI systems out there, will probably never even try to use 32x SLI AA, or extreme resolutions anyways.

They just have alot of money and want what they see as the best, because of its high price. Which is one of the main reasons they're buying a prebuilt OEM PC in the first place.

Good review though, very thorough, even if the reviewed subject had alot of problems.

Theres a chance alot of the problems can be fixed with driver updates, but I don't think everything will be fixed untill nVidia's 2nd generation Quad SLI comes out.

All in all though, dual X1900 XT Crossfire can provide enough performance for the majority of high res gamers out there.
[Posted by: Cow187 | Date: 04/30/06 11:25:00 AM]

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could some of the problems be connected to the enermax 660W PSU? U should have tested it with PCP&C 1KW PSU, then maybe some of the problems would go away (im not an all-out-tech guy but dont the cards draw more current when stressed hard at higher res? That would explain some of the stability issues u had). ...and u should have OCd the FX60 :), me thinks you were cpu limited. ;)
Just my 0.02$
[Posted by: kinski | Date: 04/30/06 12:42:37 PM]
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Gentlemen - Very nice work, one of the most comprehensive reviews I have ever seen for video cards (especially prototype/absolute cutting edge ones). This must have been some time, effort, & work in not only performing the tests, but also putting together your page sites for it. I've done a couple myself, & it is some work - but, not so bad, when you're really "into" what you're reviewing... right? Hope you enjoyed it, and I am sure you will receive returns on it, because just getting to this site to see this review isn't easy today: Must mean you're getting the "page views/hits" (your monetary reward @ least, & the other would be a job well done, imo @ least)... apk
[Posted by: APK | Date: 04/30/06 12:42:50 PM]

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please stop making articles that are two dozen freakin pages long. some of us read faster than a freakin first grader, and we spend more time clicking on goddamned next page links than reading. its annoying as hell.
[Posted by: goddamn | Date: 04/30/06 01:51:31 PM]
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12. 
Well the power is there, but the drivers (as always) and game support is just crap. A little tweaking and alot of overlocking would be nice.

Speaking of which, can you overlock these and see what they could do? I know they crash already but you know, what the hell? You only live once.
[Posted by: Grinch123456 | Date: 04/30/06 04:59:50 PM]

13. 
Thanks this review! I've been wondering what the 10k system was able of providing the gaming community. I see it doesn't offer a damn thing over a $2500 system. How could something like this be released to the public well before its ready... Oh well.
[Posted by: Po | Date: 04/30/06 08:50:54 PM]
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14. 
I am not surprised really, I recall ATI and their product going through similiar teething problems...lots of money for something with problems like this..
This car will not leave the garage..it looked good at the show, but it has no go...:(
[Posted by: Falstaff | Date: 05/01/06 02:21:55 AM]

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if its not even playable in higher resolutions and 32x AA then its just not good enough.. the product is IMO premature and should probably be Geforce 8's or whatever is faster..

Then considering the huge ammount of driver issues it seems not to be ready for sellin yet :/

Ive read somewhere else that Nvidia was in the process of making these cards shorter among other things, to be able to start selling them separatley.. so hopefully things will get better as the drivers will be improved also. But IMO they should be able to run most games playable att highest resolution and 32x AA if its to be worth this price..

Hopefully normal SLI with GeForce 8 will have 32x AA also.
[Posted by: Silver | Date: 05/01/06 04:54:31 AM]

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* Image Settings: Quality
* Vertical sync: Off
* Trilinear optimization: On
* Anisotropic mip filter optimization: Off
* Anisotropic sample optimization: On
* Gamma correct antialiasing: On
* Transparency antialiasing: Off
* Other settings: default
guys i dont know if this will help or not but sometimes things like trilinear optimizations and other driver optimizations can be the cause of artifacts in games.so why dont put all those kind of settings off and give it a try.
[Posted by: GPU | Date: 05/01/06 05:33:40 AM]

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I thought quad-SLI units were already-sold by Dell, in which case how is this a performance 'preview'?
[Posted by: boner | Date: 05/01/06 08:41:17 AM]

18. 
lol yu cant compare 4gpus vs 2gpus lol
[Posted by: ... | Date: 05/01/06 01:23:58 PM]
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19. 
Does driver 87.24 can achieve 32aa,
the driver come with quadsli 87.25 not allow me to enable it.
Is there any special need to rnning a Quad Sli ni 32X AA?
Thank you.
[Posted by: liuding | Date: 05/01/06 03:12:36 PM]

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I am very disappointed with the results of Quad SLi .They are totally unexpected. I was thinking that QSLi would have an efficency of more than 40% than normal SLi but that's not the case. Maybe nVidia could use the XDR RAM which is bieng used in PS3 and is developed by Samsung. I hope you pass on this suggestion to nVidia. Thankyou 4 da review
[Posted by: Prince | Date: 05/01/06 08:28:07 PM]
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