The XPS 710 and quad SLI

On a Dell 590 chipset? I feel your asking a bit much here. Orginally the 700 came in quad sli. It was very short lived.

I would not try it myself. 

When I say "quad SLI", each 9800 has (2) GPU'S on each chip, which would make it quad SLI. Why do you think it wouldn't work, because of power requirements, or? I have a 1 kilowatt PSU.

From the way I see it, it's no different than running my (2) 8800GTX's in SLI, just the 9800 GX2 has (2) GPU's per chip whereas each one of my 8800GTX only has (1).

Oh, and my mobo is the nForce 570 SLI.

The reporting is an known CPU-z bug. has been since the begining of the 700's

 

Yes you will need to use adapters. If the cards don't come with them you can pick them up either on Ebay or  places like Newegg

No your motherboard is a 590 its the same board that was in the 700 and that is a 590 chipset trust me I have had one before my motheboard swap. You can look here from the manual

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps710/en/OM_EN/html/appendix.htm#wp1057811

The orginal 700 as I said came with the same simulat setup with dual 7950GX2s if my memory serves me well, which like you say in essence is quad. IT didin't work. Maybe the newer cards are better, but this did not work in the beginning. In fact it was one of the things that the 700 was advertiesed as having. It just did not work out on these boards. Dell ended up replacing those who bought the systems with them with dual 8800's 

Hmm, that's odd because cpu-z says my mainboard is a 570. I guess I will just have to try the quad SLI and if it doesn't work, trade them in for something else. What about the 8-pin dilemma? Is there some adapter I can get, or...?

 

The question is, will my 1000w psu power 4 hard drives, sound card, 2 dvd/vd drives, and 2 9800's in SLI. Your thoughts?

Please remove this thread, moderators. Thank you.

---

@PH3N0M wrote:
Please remove this thread, moderators. Thank you.

Message Edited by PH3N0M on 09-29-2008 11:47 PM

---

Why this is a good learning thread. Dave I was thinking of adding two of he same cards to my XPS720. Still no good?

Like I said this is a good learning thread and you just added more knowledge that many don't know about. Let's keep it up so others can read it. :smileywink:

I was reading reviews of quad SLI and the 9800 GX2 on NewEgg. Those who had tried to run them in quad, the way the manufacturer proclaims you can, had run into nothing but problems. From what I found, the 9800 GX2 runs great as a stand alone card but when you try to run it in SLI, it goes haywire. Not only that but those who had used an adapter on the GX2 8-pin, one of them had fried out their card and others said they simply could not get it to work. I'm glad I read up on it before I jumped the gun and purchased a couple. My findings, however, were unfortunate because I was pretty excited about the idea of quad SLI.