NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched 169
Spinnerbait writes "Today, NVIDIA will be releasing their Forceware v91.37 drivers and with them will be officially endorsing Do-It-Yourself Quad-SLI. HotHardware has put together an article detailing the steps necessary to assemble and configure a high-end Quad-SLI rig, and they give some thoughts regarding XHD Gaming and its associated costs. Those of you that are hell-bent on gaming ultra-high resolutions (1920X1200 or 2560X1600 for example), along with the highest available image quality, might want to give one of these setups a look." Before making a purchase I would recommend building that water-cooled credit card first.
Re:I'd stab someone (Score:3, Interesting)
you could get some money out of it renting it for parties perhaps, opening a LAN-House, or even better you could build a hyper-resolution arcade [arcadecontrols.com] with it and resell it with profit!
It all depends on how much you see opportunity where others see entertainment....
Other markets (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Doing It All (Score:4, Interesting)
Tangental? OT? (Score:2, Interesting)
nVidia are promoting a DIY hardware hack, billed in those terms. Hacking is what we, as geeks, most want to do, or else know that others are doing so that we can extend a devices functionality, reliability, or freedom of use. The immediately larger context is that this is Slashdot; this is what the site's about.
Now that is (marginally) flamebait. Producing free software isn't sufficient reason?
Here we agree, political correctness is beginning to be applied to corporations; this goes beyond the standard of hurting someone's feelings... [slashdot.org]
Re:Latency: Serious Gamer Issue with AFR (Score:1, Interesting)
We tried this for movie playback using four Nvidia boards in a Mac G5 without SLI and the performance for any window that spanned video cards was horrible. If we split playback into four stripes, using software called Jitter, we could get ~15fps for full res 7600x2400 (it was a wall of 8 1900x1200 LCD displays). We were clearly CPU bound and on a faster computer believe we would have been able to get watchable performance.
It would be nice to be ablle to do this without resorting to the Jitter-split step; that way we could use any app to drive the wall.