NVIDIA hints at SLI chipset plans
Posted by malebolgia on 18 August 2004 - 04:41 · 13 comments & 930 views
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#1 Posted by DirtyLarry on 18 Aug 2004 - 05:24
- This sounds so promising, it might finally be time soon in the near future for that major upgrade.
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#2 Posted by ArtOf_War on 18 Aug 2004 - 06:35
- nVidia + AMD + Games ---> A match made in heaven
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#3 Posted by altermind on 18 Aug 2004 - 07:05
looking forward to it
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#4 Posted by mohennessey on 18 Aug 2004 - 11:01
- i just might have to try out a nvidia card in the future. :p
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#5 Posted by nookadum on 18 Aug 2004 - 13:52
- OMG, if SLI-capability is supported, then they have just gotten the best feature from the Voodoo 2's line of 3D accelerators.
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#6 Posted by DjmUK on 18 Aug 2004 - 14:26
- Mind you, let's say each graphics card costs £350, that's £700 of graphics card - IMO, I won't be getting that. One card is enough, no need for 2 cards right now.
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#6.1 Posted by betasp on 18 Aug 2004 - 16:36
- But what if you bought one card for 350 then two years later you bought another at 350 to double your performance for current games.... then you are onto something.
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#6.2 Posted by ShawnDude on 18 Aug 2004 - 16:49
- Problem with that is that 2 years later the then current cards will be many times faster and possibly incompatible with the one from now. But then I guess you could get the same one 2 years later for about $50 instead of $350.
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#6.3 Posted by DjmUK on 18 Aug 2004 - 21:05
- Well that's a good point - I didn't think of it quite that way. 2 years from now, buy an identical card for like half the price which will double (appro
the performance.
Then again, I'm one of those freaks who needs the newest of things (eg, DX9.0c / Shader Model 3.0) - and in a couple of years we'll be seeing DirectX 9.1 / 9.2 and Shaderl Model 3.5 / 4.0
But still, not a bad idea.
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#7 Posted by sirholio on 18 Aug 2004 - 14:34
- the 6600 series of cards will support it as well. they're about 200 american.
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#8 Posted by Starcom826 on 18 Aug 2004 - 18:35
- Is that new 6800 GT still one of those huge double decker power guzzlers?
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#8.1 Posted by DirtyLarry on 18 Aug 2004 - 19:20
- GT's only need 1 power molex Connector. Ultra's need 2.
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#9 Posted by toadeater on 18 Aug 2004 - 20:27
- I can cook a hamburget on the heatsinks of these new cards. As a matter of fact, I now use a cast-iron skillet as a heat sink for my card.
This confidence suggests that, just maybe, NVIDIA already has this chipset working well enough to measure its performance. Of course, we've already seen how the NVIDIA has been able to optimize its chipsets and GPUs to work together, and we may be in for more of the same with the next nForce. The Athlon 64's exceptional performance in gaming and graphics benchmarks probably won't hurt, either. I'd expect SLI-ready mobos based on the new NVIDIA chipset to cost a fraction of the price of dual Xeon boards, as well.
What's fixed in this release: