Re: Will dual Voodoo 3s do SLI ?

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From: John Lewis
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:00

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On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 07:38:55 -0800, Worker Working
<Looking@magazines.com> wrote:

>Richard Celny wrote:
>> 
>> For that extra crisp 5000x3500 rez @ 200Hz refresh rate...
>> 
>> But personally, I won't be satisfied until they come up with a card that
>> out-puts to an I-MAX format monitor, in true 3-D, with 128 giga-bit
>> color depth.
>> 
>> Just joking.  :-)
>> 
>> Richard Celny
>
>I am relatively sure that either www.sharkyextreme.com or ve3d.net have
>reported an interview with Gary Tarolli stating that V3 will not SLI.  I
>don't have web access at this terminal to double-check but I remember
>the person reporting the news complaining about it.
>
>I believe it had to do with limitations on the framebuffer memory
>addresses...

Who cares ? V3 without SLI will tax the Floating Point compute
capabilities of any P2 up through P2-500 in trying to keep up with
the V3 rendering speed.

John Lewis

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From: johnle@teleport.com (John Lewis)
Subject: Re: Will dual Voodoo 3s do SLI ?
Date: 1998/12/04
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