NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI exemplifies law of diminishing returns

Dan · Apr 26, 2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI exemplifies law of diminishing returns
By Sean Hollister posted Apr 26th 2010 5:27AM

What's better than three monstrous GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards in a 3-way SLI configuration? How about four... is what we'd like to say, if Hardware.info hadn't just discovered that said setup is a huge waste of cash. With a full four GTX 480 cards buckled into an X58 Classified 4-Way SLI motherboard plus a Core i7-980X processor and a massive 1.5 kilowatt power supply to squeeze the juice, the €4,064 ($5,440) box still lost to a similarly configured 3-way rig in a wide variety of benchmarks. You could argue the system was CPU-limited, but Hardware.info used the fastest consumer chip available -- so it seems there's no place in today's market (keyword: today) for GTX 480 4-way SLI. Except, of course, for droolworthy snapshots like the above.
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source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/nvidia-geforce-gtx-480-4-way-sli-exemplifies-law-of-diminishing/

good time to fire up the bbq -cool2

kontradictions · Apr 26, 2010

Mother of god...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI exemplifies law of diminishing returns

Dan 8-D

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