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GeForce7900GTX QUAD SLI system snapped at Nvidia HQ

Mentalist

Mentalist

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I want one.
 
Way back in the day (When I was like 16), my older brother bought 2 Voodoo 2's for about $120 a piece and daisy-chained them together, and his PC was TEH SHIT for all of two months or so. Those 7900's cost like $500 a piece!
 
Ahh, the good ol' days of the Voodoo era. Using OpenGL over Direct3d. :D

Good days indeed. I got a Voodoo 3 for my 16th birthday as it happens. It was tha shit fo shizzle. Probbaly couldn't render 3d solitaire now.


The 7900GTX's are costly enough as it is. The 7800's when they came out were nearly $750 a piece :shock:


I imagine that it will be near $2000 just for the cards. Then you will need the system around it...


If I was to knock it out of the ballpark I would guess that computer is worth around 5 or 6 grand. Maybe more. I know the Quad Dell systems are around 7 grand a piece.
 
I almost broke my neck trying a pole grind on my blades when I was about 15 at Brighton Town Hall.
 
They have to be constructed to accept the daisy chain... there's usually a 8-pin connector (like a really small PCI slot) on the top of the card instead of the bottom... you then plug a small chord from one card to the other.

That's how it worked with the Voodoo2 series back in the day, anyway. Here it looks like there's are two 1 inch wide circuit board stretching between each card.
 
They're AGP, yeah. PCI-E slots are longer and have three connecting parts compared to the two on AGP slots.

The board looks like one of the A8 series from Asus.
 
Well yeah, I know what AGP slots are, but I didn't know they were making mobos with more than one or two AGP slots on them yet. Guess they were developed with this in mind.
 
Yeah, they are made with this type of set-up in mind. You can also get mobos with 4x PCI-E slots. I know MSI make a model.
 
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