Wouldn't SLi still give you better output?

[{OF}RKT]

Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior

A SLI system performs better, yes.

This card is basically Nvidia's way of trying to steal the single card performance crown from ATi. In a way it works, its very expensive though, and makes little sense right now with Vista (yeah, laugh) apporaching.

Its two cards glue'd together that only need one PCIe slot to plug into. While only needing one slot, there has been no successful use of it on non-SLI motherboards, so what's the point? None really.

Nothing but a media stop gap and for Nvidia not to look totally blown away by ATi.

The key to SLI is that you need to have two identical graphics card and a Mobo that can support it. My current system has SLI support but that means I would have to get 2 6800 Ultra's and that's a lot of money for a moderate increase in performance.

[slinki]

Originally Posted by ARX|Frag4U

That may be true, but I can't constitute spending $400 for the ATi X1900. While I can pay $270 for the 7900 GT.

Don't forget DX10 is coming up shortly. You may want to wait and get a card that will support it and from what I understand nothing does at this point.

[ChemicalWarrior]

Originally Posted by {OF}RKT

The key to SLI is that you need to have two identical graphics card and a Mobo that can support it. My current system has SLI support but that means I would have to get 2 6800 Ultra's and that's a lot of money for a moderate increase in performance.

Well yes, that's a given with SLI, or Crossfire for that matter also, though CrossFire is a bit more forgiving on the identical card thing (and SLI too now, you no longer need the same brand, and small clock differences will go to the lowest clocked card to match up. Memory must be the same amount for SLI though).

The problem with Quad SLI is that spliting the screen up into four sections, or alternate frame scissor, or quad alternate frame just are not very efficent. Basically it throws out the other two cards because your CPU gets bottlenecked around having to calculate all of that (its done in the drivers, the CPUs arena).

As for DirectX 10: That means you MUST upgrade to Vista, that means you MUST buy a DirectX 10 video, and that means you MUST spend a lot of money for next to no gain early on. Personally, Dx10 is a breath of fresh air that DirectX really needs. But the entry point to it is going to be expensive.

[{OF}Blong]

Thus why it wont be adopted by the general population until the price comes down. No adoption means games really wont be necessarily "geared" for it until it becomes more adapted esp by gamers. Not saying games wont support it just it wont be geared towards it.

[LoPo]

Originally Posted by {OF}Blong

besides those are just drivers and not SLI support.

I answered that already:

Originally Posted by LoPo

I haven't been there in years and I found it in about 30 seconds. Read the readme, hint using *Search* for SLI will get you your answer in seconds. Rolling Eyes




http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Originally Posted by {OF}Blong

Just because there are drivers for the card doesnt mean linux will recognize and use 2 boards correct????

http://www.google.com/search?client=...=Google+Search


Of course not all flavors of nix will cooperate.