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[Splinter]

Seems a bit wacky. Might try it if I find someone with the dosh

[Roscop]

Find some one with some real dosh and give them that

Although after a quick read there does not seem to be a great benifit from going from x2 crossfire to x4 apart from epeen bragging rights

[Wooster]

Iirc people are running those setups and using the processing power of the GPU's for bruteforce password hacking.

[keasy]

Iirc people are running those setups and using the processing power of the GPU's for bruteforce password hacking.

That and it's very common amongst DCP such as SETI etc.

[corroded]

You tend to find ATi cards espeically in SETI and that kind of distributed thing these days. It sort of makes sense, a Crossfired 5970s would actually have around the same t/flops as the fastest supercomputer on the planet at the millennium.

I mean, even if it was three grand, it shows you how far we've come. GPGPU is going to give some applications much more grunt.

I think, if I did my sums right the gigaflops on my old e8400 was around 21.

GPUs are why we've caught up so quickly... but I would imagine since supercomputers are moving that way too, that gap might increase again.

[KingDazza]

Funny, when I look at those pics, all I see is major driver issues    Crossfire still isn't exactly great and hassle free imo either, let alone 3 or 4 way...

I'm intrigued to try sli out at some point, simply becuase at least with individual game profiles, I might find it easier to run across 70 odd games.

[Technical Ben]

Might give this a go with 2 5770s in the future, as they should be darn quick, and on par with one 5850 (but cheaper?).
My board says it supports x4 crossfire. But only has 2 PCIe 2.0 slots. So I guess they mean 2 times 4870x2 cards, or are just plain lying.
Also, it only runs at x8 link speed when in dual mode. However, as it's sharing the load, I don't think that will be a bottle neck. Some motherboards do full x16 link on the cards.