Anone else see this InqWell "Article" about SLI?

[Dosomo]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18097

Did anyone else read this "article"?

Here is a quote for you:

SOME TIME ago Nvidia announced what it heralded as a technological breakthrough named SLI capable of outperforming any other rival trying to conquer the crown of 3D graphics.
But is it really something new as Nvidia claims? I don't think so. History reveals the truth.

3dfx used SLI, which then stood for Scan Line Interleave, to boost the performance of Voodoo2 cards. You could buy a single Voodoo2 PCI for starters, with 8 or 12MB of memory on-board, and pair it with a second one to achieve double performance.

WOW! Stop the presses! What an amazing discovery! The next thing you'll tell me is Nvidia bought 3Dfx.

With reporting like this, it is no wonder that The Inquirer is the best place for solid hard-hitting journalism.

[End Sarcasm]

 

[pxc]

that was so dumb i thought it was a fuad story.

"But both the cost of this solution, which is a very expensive board with two 16xPCI eXpress channels is needed, and the current two expensive 3D cards will draw, renders it if not obsolete, a technology demonstration and nothing more."

1) the VIA PT980 and nForce4 chipsets are coming out this year, so an expensive Xeon dual PCI-E graphics slot board is not necessary
2) it requires an x16 and an x8 slot, not 2 x16 slots
3) 6600GT is a $199 card, $100 less than a 12MB Voodoo2 cost at introduction, 6800GT PCI-E cards still aren't available
4) the 6600GTs use no external power connectors, the graphic slot(s) provides the necessary power. The motherboard is *surprise, surprise* doing what it's designed to do.

I have no idea why people take theinq seriously.

 

[Koslov]

another lame INQ article

 

[^eMpTy^]

lol...my retard-o-meter just pegged...

EDIT: I just read the rest of the article...my retard-o-meter is now broken...