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Raven
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Joined: 19 May 2003
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Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:12 am |
Earlier this month Dragon Rage (who is away on family business) posted about Alienwares new Video Array / X2 technology. But reading this submission by Barbos, it looks like Nvidia Beat 'em to the punch on getting the patent!
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Six years ago, if you'd mentioned the three letters SLI to a gamer, you would have been greeted with wide eyes and wild excitement.
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Why? SLI (scan line interleave) was a new concept that promised no less than improved gaming performance and playable frame rates at what was then an unheard of 1024x768 resolution with a Z-buffer enabled by combining the rendering power of two Voodoo 2 add-in cards. Since then, we haven't seen anything of the sort commercially available. |
I remember those days... Actually i still have my old SLI setup on my server system... Its probably not worth anything anymore... Bummer. Read all about the Nvidia setup on Toms Hardware Guide. |
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Burgess
UO Staff
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 542
Location: Almost Heaven WV, USA
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:32 am |
Not sure if you guys caught this one. This is Mr. Rein's post on VE3Ds forums about SLI.
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Wow, you guys are so cynical!! Nvidia makes an absolutely HUGE announcement that should utterly delight hardcore gamers worldwide and you guys pooh-pooh it. Sheesh! 86% performance improvement is AMAZING!!!
You should realize that the SLI functionality will be available on nearly the full line of Nvidia PCIe video cards - including the mainstream-priced cards coming later this year. So a gamer who buys an Nvidia mainstream card that delivers decent performance can nearly DOUBLE his performance by buying another one. History shows that mainstream cards are priced around or below $200 and the prices drop steadily throughout the life of the cards.
Right now we're talking about a Geforce 6800 PCIe SLI setup that is better than 4x the speed of the top-of-the-line of previous generation of video cards which are still on store shelves at high prices. That is an unheard of jump in such a short period of time! Is it for everybody? No but there is a breed of hardcore gamers out there who demand this kind of performance and it is awesome for game developers like us who want to see how our next-generation game will run before the next generation is actually here. It also extends the life of your video card. Suppose you buy a $500 monster card today. One day that card will $100 so instead of having to buy a new $500 monster again to get performance up you can buy the end-of-line version of the card and nearly double your performance!
One other thing that should be noted is that the 6800 GT is Nvidia’s new single slot, single molex connector, quiet fan board which is pretty close in performance to the 6800 Ultra. The PCIe version of that board will use a single PCIe accessory connector and offer SLI.
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http://ve3dboards.ign.com/NVIDIA/b10544/16266047/p1/
I am definitely interested in the final product. Is ATI going to be using SLI or anything similar? I would prefer to stay with them. Nvidia has really disappointed me lately. |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
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Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:14 am |
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| Six years ago, if you'd mentioned the three letters SLI to a gamer, you would have been greeted with wide eyes and wild excitement. |
 am i just stupid or am i the only gamer who still greets with wide eyes and wild exitement when i hear the three letters SLI...
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i think you could better show this pic on the frontpage
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040628/images/sli-nv.jpg
couse that shows the new way, the pic on the frontpage now is the old voodoo 2 way.. as far as i can understand what theys saying.. |
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Raven
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Joined: 19 May 2003
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Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:31 pm |
well since the quote is about the old way i img'ed the old way 
btw Alienwares doing the same thing with their setup (that type of split screen effect)
i have not heard anything about ATI doing anything similar, but since i have stock in both ATI, and NVIDIA, i'll check it out. if they dont have something yet their bound to have it in development 
btw nvidia's an excellent stock buy atm, i doubled my money in the last 3 months 
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Cheetah
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Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:28 pm |
DUDE your the stupidist investor! or im just a kid who doesnt understand buisnis.. i think its that last one.. anyway, il explain myself:
iyou got 2 oompanys, company A and B. they are the main companys in what they sell, so its likely 1 does good some times, and at that time the other company does worse, IE:
company A suddenly comes up with a good selling tegnique, or a better product, more people will buy products of company A, and so they wont buy the product of compnay B, so that makes compnay A getting better and richer, and B worser and poorer.. if you got stock in both companys, you will gain money on company A, and lose money on company B.. so it evens out..
yes, in a lucky way they both get better, and you gain money, but the same chances are both companys do bad, so you lose..
so look, 1 way you lose, 1 way you play even, and 1 way you win.. 33% you gain money on it.. roughly that is..
im probably wrong.. what do i know about buisnis.. but i tryed.. |
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Raven
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Joined: 19 May 2003
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Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:12 pm |
hey i have stock in AMD and Intel too.
they both have their high points and thats why i buy them. i dont buy low and sell high, i just buy and ride it out. untill i get a good return or my investor manger lets me know to sell |
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SuperDre
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Joined: 17 Sep 2003
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Location: helmond.nl
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Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:53 am |
the new SLI doesn't stand for 'Scan Line Interleave'.. it stands for 'Scalable Link Interface', and it isn't based on one card calculating the even lines and the other the uneven like in the voodoo days, byt SLI it's using both GPU's to calculate the whole scene.. So it's even better.. |
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