Extremetech reviews SLI

[nRollo]

And likes it a lot- go figure. 😉 As my four year old would say, "I really want that!".

http://www.extremetech.com/art.../0,1558,1734888,00.asp

But if you have a serious power hunger for 3D performance, then this is the fix of fixes. For today's games, this system is joyous overkill, but it will obviously provide miles of headroom for titles coming down the pike over the next several years.

The only thing that surprised me about their review is I think they biffed the Doom3 framerates page. According to them there is some setting where a 6800GT starts at 22fps and 6800U starts at 44fps. Given the 10% clockspeed as the only difference in the cards, I find this unlikely. They sat something about the GT being memory bandwidth limited, as if 1000 vs 1100 is going to make a huge difference.

 

[LTC8K6]

The final thoughts really put a damper on what little enthusiasm I had for SLI. I doubt the part about miles of headroom years down the road, too.

 

[gururu]

The review carried on with what most of the previews have suggested....SLI is pricey, but oh so SMOKING!

I worry about dropping 1500 dollars on a get-up and then having MS release DX10 shortly therafter. That would suck.