ATI Wants 3 PCI-E Slots

[Sledgehammer70]

While Mobo makers are saying ATI is asking for 3 PCI-E slotted motherboards for their high end lines, It has everyone's interests perked at Computex 2006.

The whispers are that ATI is now asking mobo makers to make their high-end boards with slots for three 16x GPUs. All three slots may not need to have a full 16 lanes routed to them, 4 or 8 may work out fine, but the slot physically must be 16x.
Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32190)

[Gargoyle]

Three graphics cards in a case is only slightly less ridiculous than four.

[airbornflght]

Why in the hell would anyone need 3 full bandwidth slots???!!!!

Not to mention the costs to fill them all, that is completely rediculous.

[NiGHTS]

What about 2 videocards and a PPU or something. I dunno, who said all 3 slots were going to be videocard filled?

[entropy]

I dunno, who said all 3 slots were going to be videocard filled?

ATi did (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA3OSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==)

[lemonlime]

What about 2 videocards and a PPU or something. I dunno, who said all 3 slots were going to be videocard filled?

I think that is exactly what they hope to acheive :)

Apparently even the X1600 can potentially be an excellent PPU.

[CyrixInstead]

It'll be like Gillette and Wilkinson Sword's battles with razor blades soon, with "how many graphics card can we get people to believe they need?"

~Cyrix

[Armo]

it would be better if the boards had other types of PCI-E like X8 slots.

[airbornflght]

So how would they go to the "fusion" step in the # of vid card battle, 5 video cards for your games, and one for precision rendering!!