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Will SLI ever take advantage of dual-core processors?
I've been looking for articles on this topic and haven't bumped into any
yet. I wonder if NVIDIA will ever come up with a set of drivers that will allow each SLI card to run on its own processor. Any thoughts or web links on the topic? |
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SLI has no direct relations with dual-core CPUs. Having each card
communicating with only one of the two cores is not advantageous, either. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Scott" wrote in message ... I've been looking for articles on this topic and haven't bumped into any yet. I wonder if NVIDIA will ever come up with a set of drivers that will allow each SLI card to run on its own processor. Any thoughts or web links on the topic? |
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Scott wrote in :
I've been looking for articles on this topic and haven't bumped into any yet. I wonder if NVIDIA will ever come up with a set of drivers that will allow each SLI card to run on its own processor. Any thoughts or web links on the topic? Apples and oranges, dude. |
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Before you get caught in all the hoopla for dual-core, take a look at this:
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...510&Item id=2 Gabe Newell (of all people) is scared of the difficulty in programming games to take advantage of dual-core CPUs. For multimedia encoding, sure, but games won't be able to benefit from dual-core for some time. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Scott" wrote in message ... I've been looking for articles on this topic and haven't bumped into any yet. I wonder if NVIDIA will ever come up with a set of drivers that will allow each SLI card to run on its own processor. Any thoughts or web links on the topic? |
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First of One wrote:
Before you get caught in all the hoopla for dual-core, take a look at this: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...510&Item id=2 Gabe Newell (of all people) is scared of the difficulty in programming games to take advantage of dual-core CPUs. For multimedia encoding, sure, but games won't be able to benefit from dual-core for some time. http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/20021228/index.html -- /mel/ np: silence |
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The new 8X.XX forceware drivers will take advantage of dual core. While the
games themselves may be difficult to program, Nvidia has stated that they can use a cpu to offset some of the driver calculations away from the GPU. Personally, I would luv to see someone (like Realtek) make a motherboard chip sound driver that would take advantage of one cpu. That would do away with any performance issues with using the motherboard sound in games. Scott "Scott" wrote in message ... I've been looking for articles on this topic and haven't bumped into any yet. I wonder if NVIDIA will ever come up with a set of drivers that will allow each SLI card to run on its own processor. Any thoughts or web links on the topic? |
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Nothing solid, just wishful thinking and "what could be possible", along
with screenshots of current games that don't benefit from HT or multi-core. BTW, don't misunderstand me. Since current games are usually not CPU-bound at high-resolutions anyway, increasing CPU horsepower one way or the other won't be noticeable. However, using HT or dual-core to cut 20 minutes off a MPEG4 encoding job, represents an enormous, tangible time saving for the user. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "/mel/" wrote in message ... http://www6.tomshardware.com/game/20021228/index.html |
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Scott Koprowski wrote:
The new 8X.XX forceware drivers will take advantage of dual core. While the games themselves may be difficult to program, Nvidia has stated that they can use a cpu to offset some of the driver calculations away from the GPU. Personally, I would luv to see someone (like Realtek) make a motherboard chip sound driver that would take advantage of one cpu. That would do away with any performance issues with using the motherboard sound in games. Just set the processor affinity in Task Manager. Scott "Scott" wrote in message ... I've been looking for articles on this topic and haven't bumped into any yet. I wonder if NVIDIA will ever come up with a set of drivers that will allow each SLI card to run on its own processor. Any thoughts or web links on the topic? -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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