NVIDIA Announces SLI Certification and Logo Program

Subject: Graphics Cards | November 10, 2004 - 09:00 AM | Ryan Shrout
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This marks the final step for the world as we prepare for the release of NVIDIA's SLI technology.  By the end of next week, the full story will be out and ready on the web as motherboard vendors and graphics card vendors are shipping out their samples to editors and to the system vendors.  This certification program will give buyers a quick way to tell if the hardware they are buying is going to work with the SLI setup they might be building.  Below are the logos you'll find; "SLI-ready" for systems, motherboards and video cards that support SLI and "SLI" to be used only on c

Asus and NVIDIA SLI Break 10,100 points in 3DMark05

Subject: Graphics Cards | October 26, 2004 - 11:28 PM | Ryan Shrout
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The arguments FOR SLI technology are beginning to build up as we get more and more bits of information like this.  While a new high in 3DMark05 by itself is nothing to get excited about, this is good news for hardcore gamers.  (Note: the Asus page seems to be down right now, so the images aren't working at the moment!)

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Alienware Starts Selling SLI Systems

Subject: Graphics Cards | October 25, 2004 - 12:58 PM | Ryan Shrout
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I got an email from a forum reader that pointed me towards the fact that you can configure an Alienware system with SLI graphics cards today.  I poked around a bit more and found this informational page announcing that Alienware has support for NVIDIA's SLI graphics technologies. 

The system that you can configure uses two 6800 Ultra graphics cards on Intel Xeon processo

Early Morning Shopping for Video Cards

Subject: Graphics Cards | October 25, 2004 - 10:55 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Every once in a while, I like to look around the online shops to see whats new in the world of hardware that you can actually BUY and not just read about.  Well, this morning I decided to take a look at graphics cards from around the web, and here is some of what I found.

If you are looking for an ATI-based X800 XT card (

Peek at some new graphics cards & More

Subject: Graphics Cards | October 21, 2004 - 02:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Maybe you beleive that Half-Life 2 will be out soon, maybe you just want play through Doom3 again, but this time on Ultra settings.  Either way, chances are you need a new video card.  Well, if you can't wait, or can't afford a pair of PCI-X cards to run in SLI on a brand new NForce4 board, maybe one of these cards will do the trick.  X-bit Labs does a wonderful write up of the ASUS V-9999, which is a great place to start off.

"Highest performance, six operationa

NVIDIA Releases SLI Benchmarks

Subject: Graphics Cards | October 13, 2004 - 11:55 PM | Ryan Shrout
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NVIDIA sent us these benchmarks a couple days ago, and since they are up and about on the web already, we were allowed to go ahead and post them.  In addition to this table, I can personally vouch for the D3 and Halo numbers as I was in the room when the results were run and confirmed. 

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Futuremark Release 3DMark05

Subject: Graphics Cards | September 29, 2004 - 01:25 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Futuremark today released the latest installment in their benchmark suite,