NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 4-way SLI exemplifies law of diminishing returns

What’s better than three monstrous GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards in a 3-way SLI configuration? How about four… is what we’d like to say, if Hardware.info hadn’t just discovered that said setup is a huge waste of cash. With a full four GTX 480 cards buckled into an X58 Classified 4-Way SLI motherboard plus a Core i7-980X processor and a massive 1.5 kilowatt power supply to squeeze the juice, the €4,064 ($5,440) box still lost to a similarly configured 3-way rig in a wide variety of benchmarks. You could argue the system was CPU-limited, but Hardware.info used the fastest consumer chip available — so it seems there’s no place in today’s market (keyword: today) for GTX 480 4-way SLI. Except, of course, for droolworthy snapshots like the above.

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