03-02-2005, 02:01 AM
Gnollguy,Mar 1 2005, 08:21 PM Wrote:Keep in mind if you think about going SLI then you are looking at an NVidia video card. You'll have to watch which card you get since with the 6800's the pre series 400 would not do SLI. But it is something to keep in mind as you can start with one 6800 or 6600 now and a year or two later you can add the 2nd to get your video performance back up there. I actually did this years ago with the Voodoo2 cards. I had one, it worked fine and then a year later I got my 2nd one and SLI'd them and was quite happy with it's performance for another year and half.
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Does anyone seriously think SLI is going to take off? I think it's a nifty thing, but I really don't see any future for it outside of the hardcore niche market. I really can't see any average gamer dropping down the cash for a pair of 6800 Ultras, when just a single one will play any game on the market at the highest resolution and at maximum texture details. And when a single 6800 Ultra becomes outdated, there will be another generation of cards that will play the current games without requiring SLI. I think it will always be more practical to buy a single next-generation card than to add another card to a SLI system.
But then again, playing Half Life 2 with a pair of SLI 6800 Ultras on a 22" widescreen LCD at a ridiculously high resolution with ridiculously high texture detail would be pretty sexy.