DIY Quad SLI

Earlier this year, we had the chance to have a look at the first implementation of NVIDIA’s Quad SLI technology, which had started shipping to consumers in pre-built systems from authorised system builders. To be frank, there were a number of bugs that prevented Quad SLI from being a success at that time and we were left a little disappointed because the product had been hyped so much by NVIDIA’s marketing team.

Since then, NVIDIA has been working incredibly hard on the drivers front, and it also launched a more consumer-friendly version of its dual-GPU video card that comes under the guise of GeForce 7950 GX2. Over the last couple of weeks, we have had the chance to build our own Quad SLI system, based on Intel’s recently-released Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor, an nForce4 SLI x16 Intel Edition motherboard and a pair of XFX GeForce 7950 GX2’s…

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