Tech Link (Motherboard): Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal Motherboard Review

Chipzilla line of products are becoming more and more exciting. When SLI first debuted for Tumwater, it never really took off and in fact, A* got more SLI-based system than I* even if I* offered it first. But that time has passed, and now, more and more SLI-based system is being offered for the FanBoyz.
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As a matter of fact, it's not just a "regular" SLI that is being offered. Right now, Crossfire system are also ripe for the taking by the FanBoyz. But the fun didn't stopped here. Crossfire and SLI becomes a reality when hacked NVIDIA drivers enables SLI on the Intel® D975XBX motherboard. Now, this is what I call uber flexibility.

But wait, there's more (yeah, I snag it off the Home TV Shopping commercial), QUAD SLI is now also appearing. It first debuted on Dell's XPS gaming system, the first ever to get Quad SLI computing power. Now, this technology can be had by enthusiasts who doesn't have enough dough to spend on Dell* systems or just plainly wanted to build their own rig.

Gigabyte released a motherboard that supports, not one (regular PCIe), not two (SLI), not three (Intel® D975XBX), but four PCIe x16 slots!!!!

PCStats has the full scoop:

Officially, the nVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset enables two PCI Express videocards to operate together under a technology called SLI - or Scalable Link Interface. Two videocards are better than one in a lot of gaming situations, but what's one to do if even more 3D video game rendering power is desired? Up until very recently there weren't many alternatives; you could either use SLI, or get by with a single PCI Express graphics card. The winds of change must blow quickly, because less than a year after SLI was formally introduced there are already a few select motherboards which offer the possibility of using more than two PCI Express videocards at any given time....

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