ATI Wants 3 PCI-E Slots

Mathew Everett 5 Jun, 2006 at 1:00pm ET Article published in Tech

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

Comments

5 Jun 2006 ~ 7:29pm Garg Three graphics cards in a case is only slightly less ridiculous than four.
5 Jun 2006 ~ 8:48pm 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.
5 Jun 2006 ~ 9:42pm NiGHTS What about 2 videocards and a PPU or something. I dunno, who said all 3 slots were going to be videocard filled?
6 Jun 2006 ~ 12:31am entropy

NiGHTS wrote:

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

ATi did
6 Jun 2006 ~ 12:43am lemonlime

NiGHTS wrote:

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.
6 Jun 2006 ~ 4:06am 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
6 Jun 2006 ~ 8:22am Armo it would be better if the boards had other types of PCI-E like X8 slots.
6 Jun 2006 ~ 12:30pm 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!!