I think we all agree that we want the best and cheaper GPUs utilities of the market

Perhaps, but I doubt that the Tianhe-IA and its 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 are using Cubix Xpander boxes for running its 2.507 petaFLOPS.

Carl, it is physically impossible that PCI 1.0 is as fast as PCI 2.0 even onto medium scenes. Roubal said on another post:


If you consider that the tested scene weights only 290MB, on a PCIe x 16 (even if it is a 1.0) the loading time(so, the transfer speed of the PCIe link) seems to be a very ...

Ok. I think i may have the answer everybody

check this link out

http://www.magma.com/expressbox7x8.asp

If there is nothing indicated, i think it should be PCI gen 1.0, so it remains very expensive as an external solution, to my view. For now, according to what i saw here and there, external ...

Well, i don't know where you see for workstation building but i found yesterday evening on the net a respectable company which proposes a basic workstation configuration with 3 GTX 480 for $3000, PCI 2.0, and with good materials otherwise. In a dekstop-like computer box, not as a big cube. Still too ...

Anyway, Carl, the EVGA Classified Super Record 2 (SR-2) Motherboard is also 4 way SLI and supports 3x nVidia® EVGA® GeForce® GTX 480 in PCIe 2.0.

Well, i didn't know what was Crysis 2 until today, i'm not really a gamer, but building a computer for GPU rendering may be interesting, so i'm looking at what one can do actually

Now, it is a question of reliability: i saw a config with seven GTX260 on an Asus supercomputer motherboard, but what ...

I don't build my machines either (and they're certainly not sitting in a basement). I just pick the parts, and the store puts them together, with full warranty of course.

Hello Chris, do you speak about a future computer setup that you expect to build or do you have already built a machine ...

With the latest Asus motherboard, you could place your 4 GTX 480 in one single machine, but in PCIe 2.0 (double speed and bandwidth comparatively to PCIe 1.0). It has 7 PCI-E Gen2 x16 and supports also 4 dual-GPU cards.

And you won't believe it: a dual GPU Nvidia GTX480 is on the go
http://www ...

I added almost the same thing for $3,800 to a existing machine. Plus I have a display card.


For a $3,800 budget, one could buy interesting computers with such motherboards as this one:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=n0goz6KAhlPOk1kF

If anyone knows good company for building one's ...