SLI / Crossfire no limitations when ?

[MCRAYGSX]

I cant wait to seee the day when we can have Any different type of card in same SLI or Crossfire mainboards and free of any Limitations . Like Geforce 8800 GTX+ Geforce 7900 GT or Radeon x1950XTX + Radeon x1900 .

 

[Riddlinkidstoner]

SLI would have to be completely redesigned I think...because the SLI right now is still based off of Voodoo's design (correct me if im wrong)

 

[purgatory]

SLI would have to be completely redesigned I think...because the SLI right now is still based off of Voodoo's design (correct me if im wrong)

Actually about the only thing Scan line interleave (3dfx) and Scalable link interface (Nvidia) share are the premise that 2 GPU's are better than one and of course their abbreviated name is SLi.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_nforce_4_sli/page2.asp
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=548&cid=2
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1734888,00.asp

 

[MCRAYGSX]

Actually about the only thing Scan line interleave (3dfx) and Scalable link interface (Nvidia) share are the premise that 2 GPU's are better than one and of course their abbreviated name is SLi.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_nforce_4_sli/page2.asp
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=548&cid=2
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1734888,00.asp

Great Links, I never knew SLI was Voodoo technology, I never bought 3D FX product since during those days i was in Kinder Garden lol.

 

[JDAdams]

You can already run an X1950 with an X1900 in Crossfire

 

[solobaricsrock]

and you can run any brand at any clockspeed on SLI. Say a 7900GTX superclock from EVGA and a BFG 7900GTX OC. Its more fleaxible than it was before.......

 

[JackAshley]

and you can run any brand at any clockspeed on SLI. Say a 7900GTX superclock from EVGA and a BFG 7900GTX OC. Its more fleaxible than it was before.......

And there has been successful 7900GTO flashes to GTX...tested SLI positive

I'm sure in the future the drivers will allow for different cards, most likely within the same series (8800gts + 8800gtx etc), and will probably just run both as fast as the slower...who knows though?