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Its basically like this coke.

Your Benjamin Franklin, catching electricity with a kite, you want to power my house with your electricity with a kite and a key.

The United States Power Authority is offering to hook up power lines and supply me via a power plant which is safe efficent and clean.

Do I want to tie a rope to my house and have lightining strike it and risk destroying everything??? Just because a rope and a key are pretty cheap.

Or do I want the sure fire way ???




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Hey [-peep-] its a analogy calm down. Nuclear power is very compared to coal anyway. And what about hydroelectric power it dosnt get much cleaner than that. But no your going to try to totally twist this issue and make it a environment thing.

The point of the analogy was, which I guessed you missed cause your to busy hugging the trees is that why would you wanna use some experimental application out of some guys basement when you can used a tried and true developed method that works. Espically when everything is centered around the most expensive componet in your computer (Usually, before Rich jumps all over this one cause he has nothing to do I should point out that certain processors or huge drive arrays can cost alot more than your videocard).


Im not for shooting down your ideas and I salute your dedication and vision coke, but your in a tough boat considering nvidia, and alienware both have had these technologys in the works and both have solutions, you have your work cut out for you.

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i'm not looking to beat what nVidia has done; obviously, since they've done it the best so far. it's just like Vapor says - you still have to get the cards and a board, but the only option right now is the pricey top of the line models.

it's only intended to be cheaper because you won't have to drop $$ on only the most expensive cards, and you should be able to retain almost all of your current hardware. a board with an external AGP slot is $100 nowadays; you could get two Radeon 9600s at $100 a piece; running in parallel, performance almost doubles. although it will still pale in comparison to dual GeForce 6-series, it'd ideally be better than most stand-alone cards as well.

but that's not even important - this is just r&d, not marketing. thanks for the opinions.

ciao.

In my experience, CokeRat, this forum isn't visited by many people who are interested in cool research projects (hence your negative response so far). If I understand right, you're wanting to manufacture your own AGP graphics card that essentially contains two AGP cards within it, and does SLI with them on the same card, thus needing only one AGP port? It sounds like a cool thing to work on if you just want a project, but what you need is a community of electrical engineers to talk to, and at least a bachelor's in EE yourself. (though most of my college classmates didn't pick up class material well enough to do that kind of thing without a Master's degree.) If you don't have a degree or equivalent study in electrical engineering, I can guarantee you don't have enough background to do it.

The only advice I can give you is unless you're planning some sort of "AGP hub" that plugs into AGP and then lets two cards plug into it, is you might run out of board space pretty fast. Graphics cards are already big, and you'll need slightly less than double the components to put two cards in one. You will run into problems with the lengths of the signal paths and maintaining signal integrity. To accomplish the project you'll need CAD software that can simulate electromagnetics in circuits, a machine capable of soldering those tiny surface-mount components in place, and something or someone capable of manufacturing the multi-layer PCB you'll need to attach components to.