New article on SLI

[nRollo]

http://www.gamingnexus.com/Article.asp?ID=73

Enjoy

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My Cliff Notes: What a heap of marketese! Some facts thrown in for flavor, but mostly nV propaganda.

 

[McArra]

Just an interview, not a review, this is just publicity....

 

[T9D]

Interesting read. Thanks

 

[BW86]

good read

 

[Killrose]

No benchies yet? Lots of info on SLi mixed into lots of marketing PR. They must be having some greif with this if they can't get us some benchmarks by now I would guess.

 

[chsh1ca]

Now all we need is a motherboard manufacturer to make a Dual Athlon FX motherboard with two x16 PCI-E slots, and maybe grab some of those hot little dual core Athlons next year. Flaming game machine of doom.

I wonder if we will see a whole year go by before ATI is capable of producing either a similar configuration of hardware, or something that's twice as fast. Theoretically with their 18 month refreshes we won't be seeing new cores until Fall 05, but if SLI really does offer all the performance they say it does, we'll see the FX vs Radeon 9x00s all over again but companies switched.

 

[Marsumane]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Now all we need is a motherboard manufacturer to make a Dual Athlon FX motherboard with two x16 PCI-E slots, and maybe grab some of those hot little dual core Athlons next year. Flaming game machine of doom.

I wonder if we will see a whole year go by before ATI is capable of producing either a similar configuration of hardware, or something that's twice as fast. Theoretically with their 18 month refreshes we won't be seeing new cores until Fall 05, but if SLI really does offer all the performance they say it does, we'll see the FX vs Radeon 9x00s all over again but companies switched.

That is nothing like FX vs 9xxx. Totally different circumstances. Anyways, this was a good read

 

[nRollo]

I would have liked benches of sli vs non sli as well, oh well.
I just thought some of you might be interested.

 

[PrayForDeath]

Interesting to know multi-GPU configuration was supported since the GeForce 3 series. Nice read

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
My Cliff Notes: What a heap of marketese! Some facts thrown in for flavor, but mostly nV propaganda.

Take the tin foil hat off and get out of your moms basement.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Steve Sims: Initial roll-out is targeted at System Builders. Retail versions of SLI-bundled graphics boards will be available later this Fall.

For those of you who have already spent $400 or so on a new AGP card, get read to sell it before its value plummets

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Now all we need is a motherboard manufacturer to make a Dual Athlon FX motherboard

its called dual opterons.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Come on, Nforce4..... *taps foot impatiently*

 

[klah]

Iwill DK8ES. Dual s940, SLI, CK8-04(nf4).

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp...040911/image/niwd7.jpg
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp...040911/etc_zmaxdp.html

"Available in November".

 

[JackBurton]

All I need is a shuttle board with two 16x PCI-E slots. That would be sweet.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
My Cliff Notes: What a heap of marketese! Some facts thrown in for flavor, but mostly nV propaganda.

Take the tin foil hat off and get out of your moms basement.

I'm 38, married with children and you sir are a well known nV fanboi, the defense rests

 

[Genx87]

I'm 38, married with children and you sir are a well known nV fanboi, the defense rests

However I am not the one making such childish claims.

The prosecution rests

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Genx87

I'm 38, married with children and you sir are a well known nV fanboi, the defense rests

However I am not the one making such childish claims.

The persecution rests

Fixed that for you I don't feel it at all childish to claim that this is nothing more than nV promotional material with facts about the tech thrown in. I do not seem to be the only one who sees it as such either. That you do not agree is your prerogative, which I respect, and I only require the same of others. So let's just put the disagreement behind us as that's the adult thing to do and move on to more constructive dialogues, shall we?

BTW, I beta test for nV and mod for a nV specific web site so it's not as though I'm some Canuck with a chubby for ATi I just call them like I see them, and when I don't see them, I make them up :laugh:

 

[TStep]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: Genx87

I'm 38, married with children and you sir are a well known nV fanboi, the defense rests

However I am not the one making such childish claims.
The persecution rests

Fixed that for you I don't feel it at all childish to claim that this is nothing more than nV promotional material with facts about the tech thrown in. I do not seem to be the only one who sees it as such either. That you do not agree is your prerogative, which I respect, and I only require the same of others. So let's just put the disagreement behind us as that's the adult thing to do and move on to more constructive dialogues, shall we?
BTW, I beta test for nV and mod for a nV specific web site so it's not as though I'm some Canuck with a chubby for ATi I just call them like I see them, and when I don't see them, I make them up :laugh:

:shocked:Giv'em h311 daddio (poster awaits 20th class reunion himself) Too bad the forums were not established back then for the Atari-Coleco-Intellivision wars. We just beat each other up in person to decide which was better. I don't remember the emoticon symbols being available for the punchcards though

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My intellivision owned :beer: Never had an Atari 2600? owner@the time who wasn't shocked by the much better graphics and controller. Don't remember what the coleco looked like but I had hand held head-to-head football by them, that rocked too.

 

[Rage187]

Intellivision>.*


BBBB-17-BOOOOOOMMMMMMBBBERRR

 

[nitromullet]

For those of you who have already spent $400 or so on a new AGP card, get read to sell it before its value plummets

The value on a $400 AGP card will plummet no more because of SLI than the value of a $400 card would normally plummet. If we were to apply your logic to the entire industry, ATi might as well shut down since it doesn't appear to have a multi-gpu or multi-card solution to compete against nVidia's SLI for this generation. Anyone who buys computer components (especially video cards) with the expectation of being able to sell at the same price they paid is in idiot. There is always a cost involved with buying the new technology early, but the longer you have it the more you get for your money.

As far as SLI goes, the intial investment will be extremely high making initial adoption quite slow. IMO, PCIe and/or SLI is really for NV50 and R500 in terms of maturity and cost, we are in a transition period at the moment. There have been a lot of people talking about getting two 6600 GT's and putting them in an SLI config... I seriously doubt that many will actually do this from the beginning. It just doesn't make sense to get a top tier priced mobo and pair it up with a midrange video card (even if you can put 2 of them in there). The 6600 GT is not the type of card that the high dollar enthusiast usually purchases. Likewise, an expensive, cutting edge, SLI capable mobo is not the type of thing that a value conscious, penny pinching, 6600 GT purcahser typically buys. When the price of SLI capable mobo's drops this will change, but expect the inintial setups to be extremely expensive.

Case in point

how much you think that thing is gonna cost?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

it was a joke, obviously you felt the need to defend your $400 purchase. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be just as jealous as I am of people who have dual 6800Us, or anythign for that matter because even dual 6600GTs would be faster than your 6800GT

 

[Killrose]

Originally posted by: Rage187
Intellivision>.*


BBBB-17-BOOOOOOMMMMMMBBBERRR

LOL!!, I had one of those things and had alot of fun with it. The console unit went gunnybag and I threw everything away about 13years(?) ago, I had a crap load of games for that thing too.