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I think AMD and INTEL are in bed with the same makers. I think they always have been. Problem was Intel had been around so long and spent billions on there CPU design. Then AMD comes in looks at apple and intel makes a chip thats a cross between the two. AMD had an advantage being newer to the market.
isnt this SLI different from what 3DFX used to do?... I do believe 3DFX had different portions of the screen being rendered by individual cards... is SLI the same?, or is it 2 video cards getting half the bandwidth but one card operates as the master-card (yeah pun) while the other card gets some computation based on the decision made by the first card... AND, the final output comes from the master card... so the data is recompiled and sent out to the VDU by this card.... am I right on this??..
isnt this SLI different from what 3DFX used to do?... I do believe 3DFX had different portions of the screen being rendered by individual cards... is SLI the same?, or is it 2 video cards getting half the bandwidth but one card operates as the master-card (yeah pun) while the other card gets some computation based on the decision made by the first card... AND, the final output comes from the master card... so the data is recompiled and sent out to the VDU by this card.... am I right on this??..
My understanding is that SLI was developed by 3DFX, but didn't work as great as expected. Probably limited technology @ that time. But now SLI seems to be picking up. All NVIDIA needs to do is come out with better driver support to further benefit the SLI experience. :)
ATI?s AMR is a whole different story though. You don?t need a connector connecting the two cards & you don?t need the exact same card for it to wok. An X800 XL w/ a X700 Pro will work in AMR flawlessly & vise versa with all PCIe 16x Radeons. ;)
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i hear from pc club here in town that there new MSI and SLI boards over clock great. I guess they just released a new bios for them. Guess i may be going to PCI-E soon or SLI .