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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:35:45 -0500, "J. Clarke"
<jclarke@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>John Lewis wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:12:59 GMT, "Toe Jam" <toejam@yourfoot.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Rockin Ronnie wrote:
>>>> Just wondering if this is a fad or something ATI is looking into.
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>
>>>
>>>I can't imagine there is going to be a large market for that. Most of us
>>>consider it a big deal if we can afford to buy ONE high end video card...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Dual 6600GT-PCIExpress will be quite hot. Possibly buy one 6600GT
>> and another later under the SLI-certification program ( supposedly
>> guaranteeing that boards match in SLI-mode ). Gives either quad-head
>> out in non-SLI-mode, or dual-head SLI performance almost equal to a
>> single 6800 Ultra and the dual-price is likely to quickly drop below
>> that of the single-Ultra, unless nVidia quickly cranks the 6800
>> GT/UltraGPU on a smaller-geometry process - as with the X800XT,
>> the 6800GT and Ultra current yields are poor, keeping the prices high.
>>
>> In an interesting variation, Gigabyte has already announced a AGP
>> board with dual 6600GT in SLI-configuration, so Ati has distinctly
>> missed this particular boat. If Ati do a dual-chip configuration, it
>> will either have to be a kludge around an existing GPU, or a new GPU
>> for which the driver will probably take months to perfect. On the
>> SLI-driver alone, nVidia has nearly a one-year head-start.
>
>I thought one of the selling points for the new-style SLI was that it didn't
>need a special driver.
>>
AFAIK, the SLI functions are in the latest nVidia unified drivers and
non-functional for configurations not recognized as genuine SLI.
John Lewis
>> John Lewis
>
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