Patience and a generous budget will be necessary to get you one of the first announced quad-GPU desktop PCs. Alienware has rolled out the Area-51 ALX “CFX”, which will be available with up to four ATI Radeon GPUs. The PC will cost at least $5649 with two HD 3870 X2 dual-CPU cards, an overclocked (4.0 GHz) Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, 2 GB of memory and two 10,000 rpm 160 GB hard drives.   If you order it today, Alienware estimates that you will get the system in about eight weeks, on April 24.

If you don’t want to wait that long, you could opt for a 3-way SLI version of the PC, which, however, is only available with a 3.33 GHz QX6850 processor. This system will ship by April 4, according to Alienware, but cost you at least $6400.

Nice but........

Mar 09, 2008 06:09     

But few programs of as yet take advantage of more then 2 video cards. Maybe when Microsoft brings out DirectX 10 then maybe it would be worth it. I am wondering how long it will take before Nvidia and ATI come out with Dual and Quad Core GPU's. The only other problem with having 4 video cards in one system is power you would have to have at lease a 1,000watt power supply and you will have no room to really add anything else to the systems. If I was in charge of Nvidia or ATI I would be building Dual and Quad Core GPU's and convert to 45nm. Unlike CPU's GPU's could be scaled much easier. So really we could and should see 2,4,8 or even 16 core GPU's.

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Ummm, am I missing something

Mar 11, 2008 19:08     

ThomFrost - "I am wondering how long it will take before Nvidia and ATI come out with Dual and Quad Core GPU's" 3870 X2 computers.pricegrabber.com/video-cards/p/5/form_keyword=3870 x2/rd=1/st=query/ "At ~$360, two Radeon 3870 cards are about $100 cheaper than a single dual-GPU Radeon 3870 X2 card. Since the performance is pretty much identical, two cards are the way to go." www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/05/the_best_gaming_graphics/page5.html

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