Ati Sli

[Raggy]

I agree, I just didn't want to be the one to say it.. that also most likely means it's hard for NVIDIA (or ATI) to justify devoting more recourses to it to advance it. Although that's far from saying they won't. What they could learn from SLi (or maybe already are) could be enough justification. These are still companies who are, in the end devoted to them selves and they're own revenue. It’s still great advertisement, after all NVIDIA has been on everyone’s lips with the rebirth of SLi.I agree, I just didn't want to be the one to say it.. that also most likely means it's hard for NVIDIA (or ATI) to justify devoting more recourses to it to advance it. Although that's far from saying they won't. What they could learn from SLi (or maybe already are) could be enough justification. These are still companies who are, in the end devoted to them selves and they're own revenue. It’s still great advertisement, after all NVIDIA has been on everyone’s lips with the rebirth of SLi. A duel card set up would be great to see from ATI just to see what could come from it.

[Butcher]

Problem with AGP is you can't run two AGP slots on one board. It's just not possible to build a commercial motherboard which can carry enough signals to run dual AGP. PCI-e being a completely different tech allows multiple connectors much more easily. If AGP SLi was possible, we'd have probably seen it years ago.

As for whether it'll ever be mainstream or stay niche, I'm betting that latter. That said, I think uptake will be high enough, especially at the 6600GT end of things to make it economically viable for nvidia. And you just can't buy the sort of advertising it's given them.

[Raggy]

Seems a funny though. I picture someone sitting there thinking
“How can we make this AGP card better?”
“Oh, I know, we’ll hook another one up to it.. wait no only one slot”
“Oh look, there can be two PCI-e slots, lets use it instead”
But the thing is, you don’t have too when your using PCI-e because your boundaries for a single card are farther away. I think thats more or less what I meant.

[aidanjt]

nobody was restricted to slap 2 GPU's on an AGP card ~

[SilentDeath]

voodoo5500 had two gpus, and they made pci versions of them!

[aidanjt]

yea, i lubed my 5500.. until Intel had to be pricks and make their chipsets incompatible with 3.3v cards
that gave nVidia the game completely.