
Originally Posted by
Steensen
That was the "original" SLI
nVidia's SLI is "Scalable Link interface", and thus nothing with each other to do, except the "brand name".
With 3Dfx it was on PCI slots, nVidia's SLI is on PCI-E slots, and thus much better, since they have dedicated bandwith to each slot, where as the 3Dfx with Woodoo cards needed to share the 133MB/s between the PCI slots, and acknowledged the benefit of AGP's much grater bandwith, and dropped the idea of SLI on PCI.
Sorry for OT.
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