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3dmark?
nah
That thing is insanely over priced. Its just a bunch of decent video cards in a box with a 10k price tag.
You can do much better with 4 280’s in a skulltrail mobo.
Also, this is only a ‘supercomputer’ to applications that can properly use that many cores. Anything like video encoding, where you have lots of frames. Every core can handle a frame at a time. Instead of 2 quad core CPUs handling 8 frames at a time, this can do 960 at a time. And theyre decently quick cores too, about the speed of a 2ghz P4… So yes, a shitton of power, but only when its used for the right application.
That, and this is almost year old news.
2 cards is quite unnecessary for most computers including gaming. Performance is increased slightly in most cases with the use of SLi. 4 GPUs is fuckin overkill. Not worth it in My opinion. I don’t think I’ll ever use SLi, seeing as most games don’t need it.
The skulltrail cant use more than 2 cards in SLi, i wasnt talking for gaming.
You can however slot 4 cards in it and they would be physically addressable for sending CUDA instructions to.
you couldnt be more wrong. with a good mobo and decently aged drivers, and no cpu bottleneck, an sli configuration can give you a 75% boost or more in games. Most games. Ive used about 10 different single card and sli configurations. The results are generally worth the investment.
I agree that 4 gpus is overkill. Cant think of a game offhand that fully supports quad sli.
I’ll see your NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer and raise you one SC3 E-16 SuperCluster