Asus SLI board claims 3D graphics record

[klah]

http://www.tomshardware.com/ha...s/20041025_160927.html

Chicago (IL) - Asus' SLI-based A8N-E mainboards are first to break through the 10,000 points barrier of 3DMark 2005. Meanwhile, SLI solutions are also becoming more available with performance PC maker Alienware beginning to take orders for the technology.

Traditionally, it took about a year, until any graphics solution was able to reach 10,000 3D Mark points after ever new release of the software, which is considered an industry standard for benchmarking graphic cards. According to Asus, Nvidia nForce4-based SLI technology integrated in an A8N-SLI Deluxe board and two GeForce 6800 Ultra cards lifted the record officially to 10,118 points during a road tour in Munich.

In unrelated news, Alienware surprisingly started offering SLI technology with some of its systems. According to Joe Olmsted, spokesman for the company, SLI systems already can be ordered and will be shipped "soon". So far, the company was tight-lipped about SLI, but promoted its own video-array, which also allows use more than one graphic card within one system. Olmsted said that Alienware intends to market both technologies, but is not yet ready to announce availability of its video-array technology.

That's ~95% improvement over a single 6800U. ePenis++.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...oc.aspx?i=2248&p=3

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: klah
http://www.tomshardware.com/ha...s/20041025_160927.html

Chicago (IL) - Asus' SLI-based A8N-E mainboards are first to break through the 10,000 points barrier of 3DMark 2005. Meanwhile, SLI solutions are also becoming more available with performance PC maker Alienware beginning to take orders for the technology.

Traditionally, it took about a year, until any graphics solution was able to reach 10,000 3D Mark points after ever new release of the software, which is considered an industry standard for benchmarking graphic cards. According to Asus, Nvidia nForce4-based SLI technology integrated in an A8N-SLI Deluxe board and two GeForce 6800 Ultra cards lifted the record officially to 10,118 points during a road tour in Munich.

In unrelated news, Alienware surprisingly started offering SLI technology with some of its systems. According to Joe Olmsted, spokesman for the company, SLI systems already can be ordered and will be shipped "soon". So far, the company was tight-lipped about SLI, but promoted its own video-array, which also allows use more than one graphic card within one system. Olmsted said that Alienware intends to market both technologies, but is not yet ready to announce availability of its video-array technology.

That's ~95% improvement over a single 6800U. ePenis++.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...oc.aspx?i=2248&p=3

Depends on what processor was used and how much liquid nitrogen they used in raking the very last millimetre of performance out of the silicon I suppose.

Quite impressive but it doesnt mean much at the minute. Until PCI-e becomes more of the standard, SLI is just for show for the rich or the recent major upgrader.

 

[ronnn]

I always did like asus. Have high hopes that sli will come through for the upper end. Maybe all the high enders will dump their agp cards and I can pick one up cheap.