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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

I wasn't talking to you specifically, or really to anyone. I just wanted to get people posting

If you haven't yet though, read the article.

Actually, when you think about it a second, There are intel boards out right now that support PCI-E (pci-x is something different btw). With onboard sound/lan etc, you don't have to go out and get a pci-e NIC or something, and PCI-e gfx cards are out now as well. Combine with Serial ATA and DDR2 and it'll out bench it's non-pcie equivlant.

[ 07-16-2004: Message edited by: AcidWarp ]

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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And zippy...to quote the Big Labowski... "SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY!"

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I could get a Ferrari...a nice fast very expensive car. 0-60 ion whatever and top speed of insane proportions. But what does that benefit me when the speed limit is 55?

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NVIDIA is telling us that when used with the Unreal3 engine, they are seeing increases in frame rate of up to 87%. To qualify this statement, I think it is needed to note here that an engineer stood behind this statement, not just NVIDIA's marketing department.

For those that can afford NVIDIA’s SLI technology when it come time are very likely to be experiencing some of the best in-game Image Quality we have every seen. The potential for NVIDA SLI on the NV45 is simply mind-blowing. I know it certainly has me thinking, "DOOM3 at 1600." Two 6800Ultras working together would afford you full support of Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0 combined with a high level of AA, AF and resolution with tremendously increased performance with all these features in action.

The Bottom Line

NVIDIA’s new SLI technology is something that really excites us here at HardOCP and I bet there are more than a few others out there that have the same feelings. If nothing else, look at this early SLI warning as a nice mention from NVIDIA to start saving your pennies. Of course, NVIDIA’s desire here is to show you how your purchase of a 6800Ultra now could pay off big time six months or so down the road. And I have to say, if I were about to pull the trigger on a new ATI video card purchase that I knew would be for a long-time install, this NVIDIA SLI technology would certainly make me stop and rethink my position.

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Sounds like a ferrari on the autobahn to me.

The good thing about it tho is that instead of having 1 PCI Express slot as if it were an AGP slot, the whole slot array can be PCI Express. Multiple graphics cards, higher bandwidth available for other types cards besides GPUs, you can actually keep your old gfx card in the system if you buy a new one (dual monitor setups fucking rule). There are a lot of advantages to the new architecture besides raw performance increases.

And ever since nVidia devoured 3Dfx, I've been wondering if they were going to resurrect SLI.

[ 07-19-2004: Message edited by: Flux ]

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