The engineers over at Gigabyte have been working on a new motherboard solution that would support four PCIe video cards at the same time. Currently, the standard is no more than two at once via nVidia's SLI solution, but apparently Gigabyte has found a way to get two of the SLI chipsets running at the same time.

It appears that the company has made significant progress, as the first picture of such a solution has reached our offices. The board, currently named "GA-8N-SLI Quad", shows four PCI Express slots that can be occupied by SLI-compatible graphics cards. According to sources, Gigabyte found a way to combine two nForce4 SLI chipsets on one platform. Interestingly, the board integrates two different versions of the chipset - the nForce4 SLI Intel Edition (Crush 19) represents the Northbridge, the version for AMD processors is used as Southbridge.