NVIDIA's Double Graphics Whopper: SLI Comes to Market

[Vodka Magic 2G]

Sexy no??

http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041123/sli-performance-32.html

[VR46]

yep, so is two NVidia's SLI'd

http://www.falcon-nw.com/sli.asp

[Sam Cory]

Yeah, but you've really got to be paid mega wagers to get your hands on something like that. My Geforce 6 Ultra will do me for now.

[demon9k]

I have been saving for around 2 weeks now Read a review in Custom PC for a Scan system and I just had to have one.

Dual 3.6Ghz Xeons, dual 6800 Ultras.

[Sam Cory]

I have been saving for around 2 weeks now Read a review in Custom PC for a Scan system and I just had to have one.

Dual 3.6Ghz Xeons, dual 6800 Ultras.

I need new pants.

[Super Stu]

NVIDIA's Double Graphics Whopper: SLI Comes to Market

... again

[mid]

Just as soon as I find a game that a single 6800 Ultra won't play smoothly at my LCD's native res of 1024x768 with everything turned up and antialiased, I'll understand the point.

[Sarkster]

yea, hasnt this scanline interweaving thing been done before, years ago?

[yashiro]

Not strictly the same method but the same idea, yes.

NVIDIA? SLI? (Scalable Link Interface) http://www.nvidia.com/page/sli.html

[Super Stu]

I assume it's from acquired 3Dfx patents, so not quite the big hoo har being trumpetted. Interestingly though, I recall the voodoo2 8meg was about 170 ish quid and the 12meg about 200 and something?

I recall lots of "O_O GTF" back then at the prospect of shelling out ?400+ on graphics cards alone, how ironic now that folk spend the thick end of ?400 on the likes of Ultras and what not

I wonder in how many years we'll look at ?800 of graphics paraphernalia as not so much of a ring sting.

[Ish]

Yeah not that new. I had the twin Voodoo 2 setup. I remember you had to connect them via a VGA cable at the back but other than that I can't remember much else about how they hooked up.

But man did those things move. The original Unreal on them was a site to behold at the time. It really was

[Super Stu]

There was an SLI ribbon cable connecting the two boards too. The VGA pass-through thing was for connecting the Voodoos to your main graphics card like (as they still didn't do their own 2d rendering then).

I still remember being told how we wouldn't need to upgrade the cpu now, the graphics card would be doing everything. Ho ho.

[Ish]

Oh man yeah thats right. I remember now. I'd forgot all about still having to have another graphics card.

Ahhhh them were the days

[MartyG]

Woo yay at Voodoo 2 SLI benchmarks

And Doom 3 ( reportedly ) running on a V2SLI setup

[replicant]

As ever Im after the ultimate pc power.

Unfortunately i can only find 6800GT for sli, not 6800 Ultra. Kinda pointless since my 6800u is clocked at 460/1300 so the difference wont be that large with the gt sli.

Anyone seen 6800ultra for sale as sli?