My take on Nvidia SLI

NightSky 421 wrote:
"Ben Pope" wrote in message
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"This shows that even a Pentium II 300 is not able feeding the Voodoo2
with enough data at 640x480. It requires a CPU that's significantly
faster than this one."
- http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...204/index.html



That's the thing, the CPU on a system would forever be playing catch up to
a dual video card solution. Unless, of course, you hang onto those video
cards past their "Best Before" date. :-)

It has been said that HL2 will run at top whack on a 1GHz machine, provided
you have a good video card. Hence, with two Vid cards only a 2GHz machine
(probably less) would be required to take advantage of them. The thing with
modern graphics cards is that they offload so much of the work that the CPUs
used to do, that you don't need such a fast one.

Ben
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