I'd love to see Alienware's method licensed for implementation on third-party motherboards. A layout supporting the whole range of nvidia/ati's offerings so even paired low to mid-range cards can have the benefit of working together down the road. Probably couldn't afford to take advatange of having two cards right away but that's some nice future proofing to invest in.
Nvidia's implementation will probably be model specific & regulated to the upper spectrum of products where the added cost of making their SLI possible can be more readily absorbed. Using Alienware's method there'd be no need to integrate an MIO Port or equivolent in order for a card to benefit from a partner card.
When I got my Voodoo2 I liked knowing that down the road I'd greatly benefit from that soon to be acquired 2nd Voodoo card. Of course there was always the benefit of the commodity of PCI slots.
Anyone else remember praying for dual AGP slots and SLI reborn?
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I'd love to see Alienware's method licensed for implementation on third-party motherboards. A layout supporting the whole range of nvidia/ati's offerings so even paired low to mid-range cards can have the benefit of working together down the road. Probably couldn't afford to take advatange of having two cards right away but that's some nice future proofing to invest in. Nvidia's implementation will probably be model specific & regulated to the upper spectrum of products where the added cost of making their SLI possible can be more readily absorbed. Using Alienware's method there'd be no need to integrate an MIO Port or equivolent in order for a card to benefit from a partner card. When I got my Voodoo2 I liked knowing that down the road I'd greatly benefit from that soon to be acquired 2nd Voodoo card. Of course there was always the benefit of the commodity of PCI slots. Anyone else remember praying for dual AGP slots and SLI reborn?