Ken Elliott wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 01:29 -0600, michael hast wrote:
>
>> The coolest thing about this jewel is that
>> it's got 2 PCI-E x16 slots! (I gather that's what the SLi means.)
>>
>
> (Forgot to mention this on my last post.)
>
> Dual slots do not automatically mean SLI. SLI uses the small cable that
> fits between two boards to allow the second board to be the slave of the
> primary board. SLI requires two slots, but two slots don't make it SLI.
> The OS can split the display between two boards without SLI, using the
> main CPU to act as the traffic cop. SLI offloads this task from the CPU
> and does it all on the graphic card, thus increasing the speed on really
> heavy workloads.
>
> Ken Elliott
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>
>
Ken,
Asus has a card they are comming out with that was on Tom's Hardware
site, that is dual gpu 7800s and if you have two of them they can be put
into sli mode via a software driver bridge instead of the cable bridge.
I dont know why they would do that as it not hard to connect a cable but
hey what do i know. Also ATI answer to SLI ( since they cant call it
sli) Crossfire is the same two cards that are bridged together via
software no via the famous sli cable.
SLI made a lot more since back in the days of 3dfx when the first SLI
card came out Voodoo2 1000 PCI and you coupled two of those cards
together and used a glide enabled game and you had one hot rig.
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