I've seen ads for mobos that can take two PCI-Express 16x lane video
cards. Are these cards cooperating or is this a way to drive two
monitors on trully separate cards? What is teh advantage?

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:50:57 GMT, no one <noone (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:


Do a Google for SLi and read up on it. The two cards are actually
working together to construct the graphics although the monitor is
only connected to one of the cards, I do not know if dual output is
still possible whilst running in SLi. The Google search will turn up
plenty of good explanations of how it all works

no one wrote:

First off, if you dig you'll find that those boards are actually giving you
two x8 ports with x16 connectors, and second, google "SLI" and you'll find
a great deal of discussion of this. In principle they're providing
acceleration. In practice I'm of the opinion that they're providing bucks
for nvidia.

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The two PCI-Express cards have the ability to electrically combine and
function as One VERY FAST video card.

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DaveW



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