Morphing nForce4 Ultra into nForce4 SLI
by Wesley Fink on January 18, 2005 7:30 AM EST- Posted in
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Far Cry: x16 vs. x16/x2 vs. x8/x8 (nVidia SLI)
As we have seen in past SLI reviews that tested Far Cry, the performance improvements in this game were not quite as great as Doom3 and Half Life 2. Still, the performance improved from 5% in the worst case to 51% at 1600x1200 with AA and AF. There was also an unusual anomaly in the test results with x16/x2 dual video mode. In both Doom 3 and HL2, the x16/x2 mode was 3% to 12% slower. However, in Far Cry, x16/x2 is actually slightly (1.6% to 2.8%) faster than x8/x8 nVidia SLI.
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Fluff - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Pencil trick to make a Quadro 4000 i would like to see!!!cosmotic - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
(oh wait)cosmotic - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Nice comment Dranzerk!Fluff - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Oh come on guys. This sort of thing is nice to know. But would you seriously splash out on 2 graphics cards and scrimp on the motherboard?Dranzerk - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Our Take forgot to add...Getting SLI at anytime counts are you being a moron for spending so much money regardless of a mod that saves you a few bucks. SLI = Worst nvidia ploy ever.
I mean come on nvidia, think up something original than what everyone else has did.
Filibuster - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
This reminds me of the Promise Ultra100 to Fasttrak100 mod."Nvidia.... that greedy money hogging .... trying to milk us customers for all our worth."
Lol...they _are_ a semiconductor company, what did you expext? Last I noticed none of these guys are not for profit agencies...the fun is in outsmarting them (unlock and overclock, unlocking pipelines, turning on sli).
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
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PseudoKnight - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Don't get me wrong. I think this was great investigative work. I just hope it proves fruitful at the retail level.Jii - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
I knew something like this had to be lurking underneath and here we were again.It's great to see that there are people who have the time and imagination to start even looking this opportunity and bring this to public.
The only drawback is that now Nvidia knows that we know the thing, that they didn't want us to know, that we now know (you know) ;-).
But seriously: As the modding possibility came to public view, my best guess is that Nvidia will, instead of tweaking their drivers, start modifying the chip structure in a way, that such modifications will become harder to accomplish, completely impossible or will make no difference.
Aquila76 - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
>>As you will see in our upcoming reviews, it is also one of the most enthusiast-friendly boards to land on the market since the DFI Socket 754 motherboard.<<BRING ON THE REVIEWS!!!
Do you have an ETA for the nForce4 roundup? I have a $3K tax return coming and am building an Uber-AMD64 SLI dual-Ultra rig and want to know which is the best SLI for the buck.