Taleisin

/hug VooDoo 3 3500

( if this card is as good as it looks ATI is dead to me )

SLI (Scan Line Interleaving) created by 3dfx six years ago was all about pure performance and higher resolutions. Back in those days whoever had the fastest graphics solution won. The idea was that if you could add multiple 3D accelerators in one system you could speed up 3D rendering on that PC. 3dfx conquered this challenge by creating SLI or Scan Line Interleaving technology. SLI technology from 3dfx worked by having one card render the even number of lines on the screen while the other card worked on the odd number of lines. This basically "doubled" frame rate performance and allowed resolutions up to 1024x768.

This SLI technology was introduced on their Voodoo2 line of video cards. The Voodoo2 was a 3D only accelerator and required that a 2D video card already be installed in the system. With SLI technology not only could you add one Voodoo2 3D accelerator, but you could add two to your system. You connected the two cards via an internal ribbon cable as well as an external pass-through cable. Once the drivers were installed it did everything “automagically”. All you had to do was sit back and enjoy much faster frame rates in your games.

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Nvidia goes for Nforce 4

NFORCE 4 will be the name of the project that will finally bring PCI Express to the Athlon K8 market. This chipset will be socket 754/939 ready and 940 compatible and all CPUs Athlon 64s, FX, Sempr0ns and Opterons will work on it. The platform will have one to two PCI express 16 slots making this Geforce 6800 SLI mode possible for not quite as much crazy money as you'll have to invest in Tumwater and Xeon CPU. The good news for Sound Storm lovers is that this chipset finally features these nice audio capabilities. It's now called Sound Storm 2 - no surprise there - but we don’t know anything about its features as yet.

The Inq