Morphing nForce4 Ultra into nForce4 SLI
by Wesley Fink on January 18, 2005 7:30 AM EST- Posted in
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Half Life 2: x16 vs. x16/x2 vs. x8/x8 (nVidia SLI)
As seen in past SLI reviews, performance with SLI improves more as resolution and "eye-candy" increases. The range of performance improvement was from a small 6% at 1280 with no AA or AF to a significant 61.0% in 1600x1200 with 4xAA and 8xAF. Performance improvements are even greater when going from a 6600 GT, 6800, or 6800GT to a dual card SLI mode. So consider this to be the smallest performance increase that you will see since we are using the top-line video cards.
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archcommus87 - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
So what can nVidia do to stop this? Can a driver change do it or does something in the hardware need to change?I wouldn't ever do this myself, as I like having my warranties, but for all the modders, sounds awesome!
PseudoKnight - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
I get the feeling Nvidia will be tweaking their drivers again. =\bob661 - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
#2They are MUCH cheaper than that now. Zipzoomfly.com has them for $229. I'm getting mine this Wednesday.
knitecrow - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Nvidia.... that greedy money hogging .... trying to milk us customers for all our worth.An SLI board costs like $300. If I could get SLI on a $100 nforce board, why stop it? it'll only sell more geforce cards.
I hope ATI isn't that bastardly with their cards and chipsets.
Rapsven - Monday, January 17, 2005 - link
Awesome. SLI for cheap.Though you'll still need an extremely good PSU for it.