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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archcommus87 - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
So what can nVidia do to stop this? Can a driver change do it or does something in the hardware need to change?I wouldn't ever do this myself, as I like having my warranties, but for all the modders, sounds awesome!
PseudoKnight - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
I get the feeling Nvidia will be tweaking their drivers again. =\bob661 - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
#2They are MUCH cheaper than that now. Zipzoomfly.com has them for $229. I'm getting mine this Wednesday.
knitecrow - Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - link
Nvidia.... that greedy money hogging .... trying to milk us customers for all our worth.An SLI board costs like $300. If I could get SLI on a $100 nforce board, why stop it? it'll only sell more geforce cards.
I hope ATI isn't that bastardly with their cards and chipsets.
Rapsven - Monday, January 17, 2005 - link
Awesome. SLI for cheap.Though you'll still need an extremely good PSU for it.