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Exactly well said, not to mention the 2 other spare GTX690's won't be doing anything besides drawing power in gaming situations, unsure if professional 3d work will take use of the extra card's, but you might be able to set it to physx dedicated mode or apps such as Folding will only be able to take advantage of the extra GPU's. As of now, there is no such thing as 6/8/12 way SLI, even 4 way SLI setups won't provide you enough of a big boast for it's value and very little games support it, only benchmarks will take use of the extra GPU's or other complex computational application that's been programmed to handle the extra hardware.

Yes, indeed. That particular PC NCIX built was for some sort of folding application and they stated that the last two card would be wasted if it was used for gaming. I was just using it as an example to support my point.

 

[Tjj226 Angel]

Well, retina quality would be something > 200 PPI, which is only possible with a 4K display in this size.

So I guess its better to get a good 21.5" IPS panel.

I thought you were talking about the apple "retina" display. Not a true retina display.

 

[Tjj226 Angel]

Yes, indeed. That particular PC NCIX built was for some sort of folding application and they stated that the last two card would be wasted if it was used for gaming. I was just using it as an example to support my point.

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690/specifications

If you look at SLI it will say Quad SLI. I am thinking that this is what you saw on the NCIX page. It is understandable that you thought it might have been 4 690s in the same computer, but that isn't true.

There is a difference between quad SLI and 4 way SLI. Quad SLI means you have 4 GPUs with two cards. 4 way SLI is making use of 4 separate SLI channels (4 actual video cards).

If you still saw something that told you there were 4 actual GTX 690s in one PC, it was utter false advertisement because it is impossible.

If you want proof just google it.

 

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http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690/specifications
If you look at SLI it will say Quad SLI. I am thinking that this is what you saw on the NCIX page. It is understandable that you thought it might have been 4 690s in the same computer, but that isn't true.
There is a difference between quad SLI and 4 way SLI. Quad SLI means you have 4 GPUs with two cards. 4 way SLI is making use of 4 separate SLI channels (4 actual video cards).
If you still saw something that told you there were 4 actual GTX 690s in one PC, it was utter false advertisement because it is impossible.
If you want proof just google it.

No, it's on the NCIX PC Facebook page. Go back a week or two, there's a picture of all four cards in the system. Here, I'll save you the time.
 

They said on that post that 15 of these systems were made. 

 

[Whitetriton]

AMD Phenom II X4 945
AsRock 970 Extreme3
2x 4GB PC 10700 G. Skill Ripjaws
1x 128 GB Samsung 830 SSD
1x 256 GB Samsung 830 SSD
Asus DG Soundcard
EVGA Geforce 210
Antec 4482 case with 380W Earthwatts Bronze PS
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Silverstone TEK PCI USB 3.0 card
 
24' AOC monitor
Audioengine 2 speakers
 
Put system together myself. . .and it actually works.

 

[Tjj226 Angel]

No, it's on the NCIX PC Facebook page. Go back a week or two, there's a picture of all four cards in the system. Here, I'll save you the time.



They said on that post that 15 of these systems were made. 

What........the........****???????

I have friends who work for nvidia. I know people who had an hand in building pieces of the 690 GPU and all of them say that that can NOT happen. Period. :eek:

The ONLY way I can even conceive of something like that happening is they paid a crap ton to pay for designer drivers to get that to work and even THEN I doubt that it will work at 100 percent.

 

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What........the........****???????
I have friends who work for nvidia. I know people who had an hand in building pieces of the 690 GPU and all of them say that that can NOT happen. Period.

The ONLY way I can even conceive of something like that happening is they paid a crap ton to pay for designer drivers to get that to work and even THEN I doubt that it will work at 100 percent.

I'm not really interested, but if you are, you should shoot NCIX an email, they'll probably have much more to say than I do.

 

[Tjj226 Angel]

I'm not really interested, but if you are, you should shoot NCIX an email, they'll probably have much more to say than I do.

I will because I sent an email to one of my friends who works for nvidia and his response was What as well. NCIX has some splaining to do

 

[Blisse]

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690/features

Interesting, their description only says 2 at max as well.

 

[ru57y]

1
MacBook Air
1.6ghz Core2Duo
4Gb Ram
GeForce 320m
128gb Samsung SSD
10.8.2
(this is my own machine) 
 
2
iMac 21" 
3.06 Core2Duo
8Gb Ram
Radeon HD 4670
1Tb WD HDD
with attached Apple Cinema Display
10.8.2
(this is my work machine) 
 
3
Core2Duo 2.4ghz (OC'd to 2.8) 
Random HP Mobo I *borrowed* from work
4gb Ram
Asus Radeon 6770 (2gb) 
Dell monitor
1x128gb OCZ SSD
1x2TB WD HDD
Win 7 Pro x64
(this plays games and houses 1.5tb of music) 

 

[Rebel975]

4 way SLI is the max. The thing is, if you look closely, you can see that those cards don't even have SLI bridges installed. That would seem to indicate that those are some hardcore folding@home machines (or some other program like that). They literally don't even make SLI bridges that support more than a 4 way configuration. AKA- there is no way to use more than 4 GPU's for gaming.
 
I suppose you could have 2x GTX 690 plus an additional 690 for PhysX, but only one GPU in the 3rd 690 would be used, and it would be an extreme waste of money.*
 
 
 
*I had a GTX 460 in my system for PhysX once. After finding out that it had 1-2% usage at any given time I decided to send it back and get another 580 instead.

 

[daigo]

My new computer:
i5 3570k with a CM Hyper 212 Evo air cooler
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Black 2x4gb
EVGA 670gtx
Crucial M4 SSD 256gb
Western Digital HDD 1.5tb x2
Corsair 550D case
Seasonic X660 psu
Win7 Home Premium 64bit
 
Still using my old peripherals
Dell 2408fpw and HP ZR24w 24" monitors
Logitech G9 mouse
DasKeyboard cherry blue keyboard

 

[abcd]

i5 3570k
hyper 212 evo
z77x-ud3h
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90gb corsair force 3 ssd
1tb wd caviar green 7200rpm
Sapphire radeon hd 7970 overclocked
Asus xonar ds
corsair 440r
corsair enthusiast 650w
win 7
 
and I have an O2 amp with HD 650's.

 

[proton007]

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I thought you were talking about the apple "retina" display. Not a true retina display.

 
Well, I took a look at the 27" iMac display, and I like it. I'm planning to get the 27" WQHD display, not from apple ofcourse.

 

[Destroysall]

My Windows PC (primary machine) is rather growing to be a dinosaur in terms of technology today.  I built it a few years back.  I have since considered either investing into a Mac or building a new machine.
 
My specs thus far are:
 
AMD Athlon II X3 445 Processor - 3.10 GHz
ASRock M3A770DE AM3 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1333 4Gb RAM
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500Gb
Galaxy GTX 460 768Mb Nvidia Graphics Card
Rosewill Green 630W Power Supply Unit
 
Really nothing fancy. For a $500 setup, it plays games rather well. However, I've rarely played games as of recent since I've grown to spend most of my time creating and studying music along with listening. Plus, I have been actively working on film and other video projects, so gaming is something I unfortunately do rarely of.
 
destroysall.