Voodoo 5 * Geforce 6600 GT =

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:43 am

"3d1," Gigabyte's affordable, single-card, and dual-GPU solution.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20 ... 15811.html

edit: Although I hope this Voodoo5-esque approach doesn't crash and burn a la 3dfx's illustrious downfall.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:21 am

Gimmie Benchmarks, and will there be an AGP solution?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:20 am

Its SLI on a single board, I saw this coming the moment I heard about Nvidia SLI.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:31 pm

By the looks, you still need an SLI motherboard as well, even though it requires only one slot. So the advantage of the single-board solution seems primarily convenience and price.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:24 pm

Lol. I imediatly thought of the Voodoo 5 too. The could have at least said it was the "first single card SLI" instead of the "first multi-GPU".

Wonder if you could put two of those cards in SLI?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:54 pm

Well technically it is the first "Multi-GPU" card, the voodoo5 had two chips, but they were still fixed function accelerators. The "GPU" didn't really exist till the Programmable Geforce3 came out.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:34 pm

Mr. Perfect wrote:Wonder if you could put two of those cards in SLI?

w0rd!!! Quad GPU power

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:23 pm

Talk about splitting hairs...

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:36 pm

Mr. Perfect wrote:Talk about splitting hairs...

With a card that powerful, more than likely you'd be CPU limited for a good while....

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:39 pm

f00k CPU power. FSB and NorthBridge power........it would take a very high power AGP/CPU/FSB speed to even touch Quad GPU abilities

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 6:21 am

I wouldn't worry about CPU bottlenecking. 4x SLI would mean that that elusive 8x FSAA option finally makes an actual appearance, probably at 1600x1200 if bus bandwidth permits.

So, when will Folding run on a GPU?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:58 pm

yah, 4x SLI would mean you could crank out the FSAA and FSAF settings and still get uber FPS Speeds