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Title: The Return of SLI
Post by akula65 on 28.06.04 at 15:47:57

What goes around comes around:

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1728/

Title: Re: The Return of SLI
Post by Lecram25 on 28.06.04 at 16:11:14

It's not "real" SLI. If nVidia really had SLI (Scanline Interleave) they would have used a very long time ago.

Heck, they didn't even use "Scanline Interleave", because they can't, that'd be patent infringement. So they went to the next "best thing", Scalable Link Interface, so as to get people ranting and raving about how SLI is back, etc.

SLI (Scanline Interleave) belongs to an individual, and we'll just leave it at that.

Title: Re: The Return of SLI
Post by janskjaer on 29.06.04 at 11:21:07

Credit to nVidia for trying, but they are too close to touching copyright infringement laws as it is.
It is a blatant rip-off of the original ingenius idea that 3dfx had a hand in. The way in which the technology works (the vertical break-up and split between the two cards) is nowhere near as great as the original invention.

The cheapest GF6800GT is £289 ($517) and the cheapest GF6800Ultra is £369 ($660), with the most expensive GF6800Ultra being £575 ($1029)!!!

So what fool is going to fork out around $1300 (GT) - $2060 USD (Ultra) for 2 GeForce6800's, then fork out for at least one Xeon CPU and an (rare, if not pricey) workstation mobo with TWO PCI-E x 16 slots!::)

nVidia are asking too much! 3dfx had the right idea all along with SLI. Cheap and less fuss! 8)

Title: Re: The Return of SLI
Post by fish on 29.06.04 at 17:34:11

wrote on 28.06.04 at 16:11:14:

Do you know who owns the patent of SLI exactly?

Title: Re: The Return of SLI
Post by janskjaer on 29.06.04 at 17:37:01

Isn't it some Nordic guy? ??? ::)

Title: Re: The Return of SLI
Post by 3dfx_goblin on 29.06.04 at 19:32:32

A search of patents in he world that includes scanline interleave shows that this is the only one:
http://v3.espacenet.com/origdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=KR274654&QPN=KR274654

Does that mwans that it is a Korean that owns it or does that means nothing? :P