Agp Sli :D?!

[mista ting]

is there going to be sli nvidia cards that will be for agp :O?!

 

[Xenocide]

no, its not possible

 

[Tebore]

Maybe if a company was brave enough to Create a board with 2 AGP slots and able to do software SLI that would be great. Imagine 2 9800pros (chosen because it's cheap enough).

 

[MODdaBOX]

i thought the bandwith wasnt high enough on agp to support 2 cards?

 

[Tebore]

i thought the bandwith wasnt high enough on agp to support 2 cards?

In Theory what you would do is make one AGP slot and take I think 4 PCI slots and combine the bandwidth to get 2 Slots with bandwidth close enough to each other to do it.

SIS is doing that with a new chipset.

Also it wouldn't really matter much since Video cards now don't really use AGP bandwidth that much anyway.

 

[David]

As far as I am aware, it is currently impossible. And with PCIe coming in to replace AGP, and newer chipsets being made for PCIe I dont see companies investing money in trying to make an AGP-compatible SLI technology.

That said, didnt the original SLI for Voodoo cards (Scan Line Interweave, not Scalable Link Interface) use PCI cards....?

To be honest, I dont see the point.

 

[Tebore]

As far as I am aware, it is currently impossible. And with PCIe coming in to replace AGP, and newer chipsets being made for PCIe I dont see companies investing money in trying to make an AGP-compatible SLI technology.

That said, didnt the original SLI for Voodoo cards (Scan Line Interweave, not Scalable Link Interface) use PCI cards....?

To be honest, I dont see the point.

Yes yes they did, but back in the day PCI was brand new and it was the fastest interface we got that was over 7 years ago. WOW the PCI bus is old.