B.Ob. Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 AnandTech: NVIDIA's Scalable Link Interface "When asked whether it would be possible to connect the cards together with something along the lines of a cable, NVIDIA indicated that the PCB approach had afforded them superior signaling qualities, but that they continued to look into the viability of other media. As this is new technology, NVIDIA is slightly weary of sharing some of the lower level details with us. We asked whether their SLI uses a serial or parallel interface (usually fast parallel interfaces are more sensitive to signal routing), but we were told that they may or may not be able to get back to us with that information. Either way, this is going to have to be a very high bandwidth connection as it's over this path that the GPUs will communicate (this includes sending framebuffer data for display)." [H]ard|OCP: NVIDIA SLI "As time moved on 3dfx met its fate and shut the doors on their business. NVIDIA purchased 3dfx's intellectual properties and now it seems they are ready to reveal to us a little something they may have learned from 3dfx that is built in to their new GeForce 6 series of GPUs. And that is a new "SLI" technology." Tom's hardware: NVIDIA Takes a Walk on the SLI Side "NVIDIA recognized the potential of the new bus interface early on and has incorporated something akin to 3dfx's SLI functionality into its newest graphics processor, the NV40, a.k.a. GeForce 6800. PC builder Alienware also presented a working dual-card solution of its own at this year's E3, although it differs from NVIDIA's SLI in several points." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellilion Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Crazy, you'll need 2 pci-x(16x) slots to do it but that will be a crazy setup. It will only cost about $1000 to do it, not sure if I have enough in the piggy bank to do it, i better start collecting cans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParoxysM Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 B.Ob. is just trying to hook up his post count... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.Ob. Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 B.Ob. is just trying to hook up his post count... n000000b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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