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Need a bigger Desktop? How about 10 displays at once?

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One Gigabyte Motherboard, Four Graphics Cards

Gigabyte's latest stroke of genius is the GA-8N SLI Quad Royal, and is a very high-end motherboard that powers an Intel socket 775 Pentium 4, Pentium D or Pentium Extreme Edition processor via an NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset. NVIDIA chose HyperTransport to link the north bridge and south bridge components of the Intel Edition chipset. Gigabyte saw an opportunity to drop the south bridge (called the MCP or Media Communications Processor) in favor of an nForce4 SLI chipset - the AMD version!

All of this was possible because the nForce4 SLI for Athlon 64 is a single-chip solution and incorporates all the interfaces such as storage, networking, and USB that are essential for modern core logic products. After hooking up both chips via HyperTransport, Gigabyte not only had access to the nForce4 AMD Edition's interface features, but also found itself in a position to implement four x8 PCIe slots or two x16 slots.
Bah... they won't let me link the pic into the thread. See here: http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard ... splays.jpg

Article: http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard ... index.html

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that is extreme
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DAMN, that is just crazy
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you need this why?
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bragging rights
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Yea it is extreme... an EXTREME waste of money!
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anand's got one

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I can do all that with out spending all this mony on 4 VERRY expensive video cards and a computer.

You can build a PC or actually buy a video multiplexer and get teh same results... even beter cause a real multiplexer can compensate for screen gaps.
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But a multiplexer won't do a 6400 x 2048 resolution. It may be even bigger than that. Still a waste of money.
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they sell special ones just for doing this. they come with a pass trhough card that can take watever from the video card and turn it in to multiple displays... so if you have one card that can do insainly high res it will work just fine. they even have stand alone cards for it.. not too good on the 3d end... but they can play video just fine and insane rezes.
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