This is INSANE!!

[Custom]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/04/one_gigabyte_motherboard/
Imagine if this was on the market by the end of the year!

[public_eyesore]

they are on ebay.

[Redbeard]

I sure hope the onboard sound is good... there's no way you could fit a sound card in there.

[Omega]

I sure hope the onboard sound is good... there's no way you could fit a sound card in there.


exactly. i'd rather get a mobo that supports two 7800GTDual's so i have room for the X-Fi and Dual gigabit card i would put in there.

[Custom]

Gigabyte motherboards have good onboard sound but I got a X-Fi sound card!

[moOmL]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128318

That price isn't too bad. I wouldn't get it though, yucky intel.

[OvRiDe]

Just think if it could do quad CPUs or 2 Dual Core CPUs (not that there is much out there to take advantage of that.. yet) it would be Totally Insave.. 3DMarks in the 100's of thousands maybe??

[marquee]

Calm down every one. YOu wouldn't score more then 20k with quad sli(3d mark05). When Sli was created it was created to give twice the fps and etc.. But it never get to that get to about a 35% increase if your lucky. So with more then 2 cards I doubt thet will have each a increase of 28% boost per card.

After you get about 1200 in CPU score there is hardly any more head room to improve.

I am kinda mad that the quad sli from gigabyte didn't first come in AMD. Also the quad sli you saw at the CeBit wont come out for retail. You can only buy it as part of a whole computer because nvidia it worried about overheating and space issues if some one was to build a quad sli system like the one from CeBit.

[OvRiDe]

Well without quad CPU support in games and 3DMark there's no telling what a Quad processor, Quad SLI system would do .. but I'm confused about it not being available.. Isn't NewEgg already selling it or are we talking about something different??

[TheGreatSatan]

Parts keep getting more and more expensive. Motherboards and cases and everything is constantly going up.

[OvRiDe]

I don't know if I would say they are going up.. A 100MB (thats not a typo I do mean MegaByte) HDD cost $1000 at one point in time. A 20MHz computer cost over $8000 dollars, and for a while they were transporting 32MB RAM sticks in armored cars. In '98 we paid over $23,000 for a half a terabyte of storage (thats when an 18GB SCSI drive was top of the line :)). To me it seems like there is a median, or a best bang for the buck. But it seems that an average HDD is around 100 bucks, an average motherboard is around 100 bucks. Kind of like the price stays the same, but the features just keep increasing as time goes on. Of course this doesn't include the high end stuff. That side is pretty volitile. The newer it is the more it costs, but eventually it creeps down into the average range of equipment. I would say that median is slowly creeping down as well. Its hard to believe you can buy a complete 2.8Ghz+ pc from Dell with a monitor for apx. 400 bucks. Just a few years ago that would be unheard of. Granted its a Dell and its not the kind of pc that most of us are looking for, but I must say we are definately not average pc users.. heh Its definately a fine time for us computer enthusiasts, and I am looking forward to what we see happen in the next 10-15 years and beyond. Its going to be incredible.

Just my 2cents..

[jdbnsn]

There is a chicken and egg tug n play going on between hardware and software developers it seems to me. But lately, this hardware is being developed way ahead of it's time. Like the quad core CPU plans that AMD and intel hope to build, this quad card setup doesn't strike me as a useful division of resources. Even the new NVIDIA and ATI cards are pretty much capapble of running anything out there in terms of software. I can't even see the benfit of dual cards yet because there is no need for that much processing yet, or is there? To my knowledge, there isn't any game that would run noticably better with 4 vs 2 cards. I think they are getting ahead of themselves, by the time that is useful, there may be a whole new style of gfx card which doesn't rely on large numbers of pipelines. But what do I know?