Taste Nvidia's Quad SLI

IT TOOK A WHILE, but we did it. We've finally managed to get our hands on two Gainward "7900GTX PCI-E 1000MBTV-OUT 2DVI" boards and went on a magic carpet ride, testing the product in massive amount of applications. We'll be bringing you a review of QuadSLI with massive amount of gaming apps, including Call of Duty 2, Doom III, Half Life 2, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Serious Sam II, Quake 4, World of Warcraft and many more.

In order to establish what kind of board we had, we've taken the cooling system off. And we have seen that the code on the chips show this is a desktop, 7900GTX class product. No mobile wonder here - the card we've disassembled had chips with serial numbers 40 and 100, and the product code was: „G71-G-N-A2“.

Our test system consists out of Athlon 64 FX-60, ASUS nForce4-SLI-16X motherboard, 2GB of system memory (GeIL DDR400), Enermax 660W, phenomenal CoolerMaster Stacker case, Plextor DVD burners and two Raptors, 150GB each. For visual part, we're relying on 30" Apple Cinema Display and 20" Acer AL2021 (Apple won't give us 1280x1024 resolution, since it's 5:4 picture format and Samsung S-IPS matrices suffer from problems - as we've experienced with Dell 3007WFP, based on the same S-IPS tech).

We've experienced some system instability issues, but those were more a fault of default configuration (2x 512MB of DDR400 memory, Enermax 660W PSU) than anything else. We have installed the two gigs of memory and the installation went flawlessly. We're doing a lot of benchmarks, and will post updates as testing continue. ?