NVIDIA gets official with 3-way SLI for "extreme gaming"
By Donald Melanson 
posted December 13th 2007 3:11PM
posted December 13th 2007 3:11PM
It's taken a bit longer than expected, but NVIDIA has finally announced that it's extended its SLI technology to allow for three-way setups, in addition to the usual two or four-way ones. That, the company says, should give you a 2.8x performance increase over a single GPU system, letting you crank up all the settings while accepting nothing less than a full 60 frames per second. That will come at a pretty hefty cost, of course, as you'll need three GeForce 8800 GTX or GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards, not to mention a PC capable of accommodating them. If that's not an impediment for you, however, you should soon be basking in the glow of 384 stream processors, a 110+ gigatexel per second texture fill rate, and no less than two gigabytes of graphics memory.
And anyone who buys the 9 series, will be kicking themselves when they realize the 10 series.
The sad thing about computing, waiting for new parts is never worth it, 4 months later, there is something that beats the crap out of your 4 month old "top of the line".
Not true, 4 months later is nowhere near close to the release cycle.
12 months maybe.
nice!
Wow, this stupid trend has got to stop, it gives the console fanbots more fuel for their flames that PC gaming is too expensive. My $900 rig runs everything you could possibly think of at high resolutions and settings (except Crysis, but nothing can run that so that's ok). The arbitrary limitation to nVidia's top end doesn't help things either. At least with ATI's 4xCF the cards themselves cost around $250-300, not $500-600.