Linking 2 Nvidia Cards?

[x00783]

I have heard comments and some rumor that you can link NVidia cards together for extra performance? Is this true? How do you do it? What cards will it work on etc....

Thanks!!!

[XtremeMaC]

yes its true for the upcoming pciexpress cards

its called sli

this was done before when pci cards existed 3dfx ruled on this

[prathapml]

Yes, that's done by Alienware for their high-end gaming machines.

They used nVidia's SLI technology based cards, and these cards will go into a PCI-X slot. Pretty exciting that tech. seems to be.

Go here for a review (unfortunately, that site is designed for IE only, not properly rendered with standards-compliant browsers like opera/mozilla):

SLI

[zetto]

Yes, that's done by Alienware for their high-end gaming machines.

They used nVidia's SLI technology based cards, and these cards will go into a PCI-X slot. Pretty exciting that tech. seems to be.

Go here for a review (unfortunately, that site is designed for IE only, not properly rendered with standards-compliant browsers like opera/mozilla):

SLI

actually, Nvidia's SLI is a different technology from Alienware's implementation. Alienware works with ANY pci-e videocard, and it's a external solution (i dunno, some adapter or something); while Nvidia's SLI is native. Appears, all latest gen pci-e nvidia videocards (6800 & new 6600) include sli connector. By default, nvidia's solution is better because there is less overhead, and it will work with any mobo that has 2 pci-e slots but with future ones only (like nforce 4). Right now, only high-end intel server mobo has those 2 slots.

Hopefully, early next year u would be able to afford cheapo sli with 2 6600's that would yield 512mb videomemory and about 16-18k in 3dmark03. with 6800 it'd be faster but much more expensive

Oh, and doesn't this belong in a different forum?

[neosapience]

A friend once asked me if he could hook up his 2 computers together with a USB cable so they could 'share' their video cards for better performance.

I blew soda out my nose...

[zetto]

http://www.bit-tech.net/feature/47/4

[SiMoNsAyS]

They used nVidia's SLI technology based cards, and these cards will go into a PCI-X slot.

someone corrected me a few posts ago, what you want to say it's PCI-E(xpress) PCI-X it's only an attribute of servers and all the people mistakes them