A team of utterly mad Germans over at PC enthusiast hardware site PCGH have got themselves three of NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 Ultras and plugged them into the one motherboard.
Like I said, utterly mad.
There’s no mention of which motherboard they’re using, but I’m assuming it’s a reference design from NVIDIA. The cards were paired with a quad-core Intel Q6850 and benchmarked using FEAR, Company of Heroes and Crysis.
You’ll find a pretty graph with Crysis benchmarks after the jump.
PCGH-Hands-on-Test: NVIDIA’s 3-Wege-SLI [PCGH, via Blue’s News] 
The performance increase of three cards isn’t as significant as the boost from two. Crysis however manages an extra 10fps or so, which equates to a 33% improvement. It also shows that Crysis was not designed with current generation hardware in mind.
There’s also a brief mention of triple-SLI in the current issue of Atomic (January 2008, p45) for anyone that’s interested.
Anyone knows that threesomes (of one kind or another) are usually good things…
And no, I don’t work for them, just subscribe to the mag.
So relax…
@Peter G: I wouldn’t worry so much about the “work for them” thing. I used to be editor up until 3-4 months ago!
1200W PSU needed to run this monstrosity :/
The noise and heat generated by this must be shocking.
That’s odd. What kind of motherboard has x16 PCI-E lanes, what are they using? I wasn’t even aware nVidia had any sort of TriSLi in either their drivers, or even the SLi bridge.
Asus P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard with 3-Way SLI
Pure AWesomeness
Atomic is a very good mag too… Rather PC Powerplay though.
Oh crazy benchmarks too.
I just ordered my last 8800Ultra as of today. I have a Striker Extreme with MSI 8800Ultras clocked at 660. My CPU is clocked at 3.33Ghz and SLI enabled 4GB of Corsair Dominator is clocked at 1066Mhz. I have running Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.
In about a week I will have my dream Machine of 07-08 with TRI-SLI MSI 8800Ultras. The fastest Videocards out there. Money isn’t a problem with my Job and My Hobbie being the same. I will post a Video on Youtube mid Jan 08. God I hope the Cosmos case can handle 3 of those Bastards.
Just think World of Warcraft at 10000 FPS lol jk