SLI

[Christo]

can use an SLI board with one gfx card yeah?

 

[Veritech]

yes

 

[Jamie]

Christo SLI is a patent by Nvidia so they are the only cards that will use
it (6600GT,6800 etc)

 

[kony]

Christo SLI is a patent by Nvidia so they are the only cards that will use
it (6600GT,6800 etc)

True, but it's implemented on PCI-Express slots that will
allow use of any one PCI Express card instead... whether the
board supports SLI or not.

 

[Jamie]

this is true, however buying a SLI board and two 6600 or 6800 cards is still
not worth the money right now because no motherboard would support x16 on
two cards that is 32x for PCI-Express and current configurations only
support 20x so you have to run the cards at 10x so why spend 800bucks when
the performance isn't that much greater then one card?

 

[Christo]

this is true, however buying a SLI board and two 6600 or 6800 cards is
still not worth the money right now because no motherboard would support
x16 on two cards that is 32x for PCI-Express and current configurations
only support 20x so you have to run the cards at 10x so why spend 800bucks
when the performance isn't that much greater then one card?

yeah but buying an SLI board and one 6600/6800 is worth it then later buying
an extra 6800 or whatever later

will nvidias newer cards (G70 i think) alow for SLI on PCI-Express?

 

[Jamie]

yeqah i guess thats true, maybe a BIOS update later on will have 30x instead
of 20x, so that ppl don't have to spend 2-3 hundred on a new Mobo

 

[Jamie]

32x my bad

 

[kony]

It's pretty (perhaps overly) optimistic to expect that going
from 20X to 32X would help enough. Games aren't written for
"dream boxes", any newer PC with a $200 card will usually
suffice.

yeah but buying an SLI board and one 6600/6800 is worth it then later buying
an extra 6800 or whatever later

will nvidias newer cards (G70 i think) alow for SLI on PCI-Express?

Modern games are designed to run on less than a single 6800,
and if the cost is significant enough that it delays
purchase of the other one, well you then drift closer and
closer to another era of DirectX and newer cards eclipse the
performance of the old ones. Being able to play modern
games comfortably doesn't necessarily require spending over
$300 every year.

 

[Shep©]

Christo SLI is a patent by Nvidia so they are the only cards that will use
it (6600GT,6800 etc)

And I wonder who they bought it off to get it <grin>