Quad SLI is the dog's goolies

A CHAP from Nvidia who knows how the business works confirmed the Quad SLI is the show-off thing. He said the company did it simply because it could, and they will eventually sell a piece here or there.

Well, four are better than two anyway, but there is a CPU limitation that will prevent us from getting the top scores at the top resolutions.

Nvidia preaches to play the game at extreme high-resolutions of 1920x1200 or 2560x1600 and urges you to dig deep and buy a Quad-SLI rig for it.

Even at Nvidia's press conference the senior Nvidia chap said, "If you are crazy enough, you can buy two of those displays," and he was referring to 30-inch Dells. He talked about the ability of 7900 GTX and GT to do dual, dual DVI support. Yes you have to use dual word twice. You have to hand it to a company that wants to sell you four graphic cards for gaming.

Another Nvidia chap said that this is something for the people that actually have the Ferraris. I guess he meant Jensen who sure has one, or maybe some of the other Vice Presidents who actually could afford it.

We know that Nvidia marketing spinner Dan Vivoli likes Quad SLI as he told the Cebit press crowd, but it is easy for him to say, as he didn't buy one.

He got one for free to make the marketing spins around the word. We will try to go to Nvidia's booth today and will see if we can play FEAR at 2650x1600 resolutions with all the settings on and to see it for ourselves.

For most, it's not the question, is it good? Yes, of course Ferraris and Quad SLIs are good, but can you afford it? The answer is unfortunately and usually no. But if you are Nelly the golden-teeth rapper you might have to money for Quad SLI as well. You get the Porsche GT or Ferrari to show off and this is exactly why one is going to buy Quad SLI based on 7900 GTX cards. It is all about being cool. µ