Dual-GPU SLI Graphics Card.

[swestrup]

Me WANT. At first I was thinking that it was a nice card, but that I would rather have a ATI 9800, since that can fit into an AGP slot, which is what I have on this motherboard. Then they pointed out that Gigabyte is willing to bundle it with a new motherboard to handle their device, at a combined cost LOWER than a high-end ATI or NVidia card. Yum!

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Note that while I think that SLI is a nifty technology, I think Alienware's idea of its Video Array technology that allows arbitrary PCI-Express cards to be used in a heirarchy is MUCH better.

Comments

[sps.livejournal.com]

I'm rather sceptical of anything that merges analogue signals, but I guess we will see.

What I want to know is why I don't get four Athlon64s on this pup. I mean, why would I want to risk being CPU-bound? :)

[swestrup]

Hmm. I had thought it was merging digital video signals. Analog would suck.

[sps.livejournal.com]

The thing I find odd about SLI is that in SLI mode the cards only see PCIe x8 even though they are socketed PCIe x16. Why couldn't they find some way of using the remaining eight PCIe lanes for intercard communication, instead of needing a separate bridge card? There's already a dongle on the motherboard to do the lane switching, and it would mean that the SLI bridge was no longer mechanically motherboard-specific.

Well, I guess it could be a geometry issue.