According to the specs for their Dual Socket board it can do 4 Way SLI with the GTX 285 Classified and their next flag-ship GPU.

I dont know if this means the reference 400 series will be able to do it, i dont see why not since ATI offers it but it may be EVGA plans to make a 400 series Classified edition.

It suggests that they have something planned for 4-Way Fermi.

You can read that statement here in the FAQ for the SR-2 board
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=207370

Motherboard supports 4-way SLI on current GTX285/upcoming Flagship VGA

kscott190

If Nvidia was smart (which we all know their not at times) 4way SLI would be part of reference design of the 400 series.
If it is then the only thing I can see EVGA turning into a Classified would be the dual GPU and making it 6way SLI.

SLI is still restricted to a max of 4 GPU's, so is Crossfire, its not possible with the current gen of SLI/Crossfire to run more than 4 GPU's in SLI Crossfire regardless of how many GPU's each card has.

I would punch my momma in the FACE for 6-way SLI! Ye-uh!

watts = voltage in volts x current in amps.

most home curcuits have a 15 amp breaker, and with 120 volts it should be tripping at 1800 watts. even 100 volts would be 1500 watts. you might have something wrong, you should check that out. if you have 120 volts and are tripping at 1400 watts, your breaker is going off at 11.6 amps. that is incorrect.

chump7431

i am going to guess yes.  do u guys remember when they had that great deal on the 4way classified with the 4 classified 285's.  they said they would be the first ones to upgrade to the new gpu's.  so i am going out on a limb and saying YES they will be 4 way sli

According to the leaked slide everyone's so excited about (that suggests the GTX 480 will have 512 cores but a massive TDP of 295W) the GTX 470/480 is only rated for Tri-SLI.

Nvidia really should start allowing 4 single GPU cards to be set-up in Quad SLI just like ATI do with their single GPU cards and 4-Way Crossfire-X.

There should atleast be an EVGA special edition that allows 4 single GPU 400 series to be used in Quad SLI.

klicker

watts = voltage in volts x current in amps.

most home curcuits have a 15 amp breaker, and with 120 volts it should be tripping at 1800 watts. even 100 volts would be 1500 watts. you might have something wrong, you should check that out. if you have 120 volts and are tripping at 1400 watts, your breaker is going off at 11.6 amps. that is incorrect.

or you have more crap than that hooked up to the same breaker.

Kicthen/bathroom.. it was no sized for a extar 1000 watt microwave and 400 watt lights in 1983

Fushi

For some reason I thought the max supported # of GPU's was 8, and that they just didn't make any cards capable of octa-SLI.

nope

You can run 8 GPU's separately on a board for something like folding (all doing a separate work-unit) but they wont run together in SLI/Crossfire (all 8 GPU's working together to render graphics).

sinparade

you realize that you got an incredible input lag with sli?
the more gpus you add, the bigger the input delay is
in a game running quad sli (3 prerendered fps) - you got 50ms of inputlag (i'm not even talking about the horrible micro stuttering in some games ...)
but since all of you are just running benchmarks for the fame & girlzzzz (lol) you don't care right ;)

I have Quad SLI at the moment and its the first and last time i ever do.  The drivers started out bad, got better, covering up most of the short-comings of trying to keep 4 GPU's working together synchronised but since 195.xx its all went downhill again for Quad, I hate my GTX 295 cards now infact if i ever have tp RMA them i would ask they replace both of them with GTX 285's so i can tri sli with the GTX 285 i have (i started off with 3 GTX 280 SSC's in Tri SLI, stepped up 2 to GTX 295's and1 to a GTX 285).  Possibly i might be able to RMA them and get 2 GTX 470's instead unless the whole point of the 200 series shortage was so vendors could save up a load of them for RMA's once the 400 series releases (lol man i am full of speculation, conspiracy theories). If all you care about is benchmarks by all means go Quad SLI but it can ruin gaming experiences. I would hate to even try to imagine how bad Octo-SLI would be (the same can be said for Crossfire). Stay away from Dual GPU cards unless your nly buying one but even then i would suggest spending that bit extra and just SLI'ing 2 single GPU cards, the dual GPU card made sense when you could not use 2 or more cards in SLI on the Intel boards (previous to the Intel 5 series).

Tri SLI would be the most i would do but i am likely just to stick with either a single card or possibly dual card SLI which i would say would give a pretty good experience.