I'm sure many of you can remember the days of 3dfx, the first Voodoo Graphics back in 1996 and about a year later the introduction of the Voodoo2. Voodoo2 actually made sure that 3dfx reigned supreme for quite some time as two cards could be combined in something called an SLI, Scan Line Interleave, configuration. Each card rendered half of the image scan lines which resulted in double the performance of a single board and the ability to play OpenGL games such as Quake 2 in a 1024x768 resolution. To date no manufacturer has come up with a similar concept simply because modern graphics accelerators are all AGP based, there's no dual AGP motherboards and PCI simply doesn't have the bandwidth to handle modern graphics accelerators. With the arrival of PCI-E things have changed though, a number of workstations motherboards featuring the Tumwater chipset will have dual PCI-E-x16 slots making dual graphics accelerators a possibility again.

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

Cool ;) but expensive, i'll just stick with a simple 1 video card upgrade for the time being but if nvidia are still releasing the option of these duel cards when i do my next full upgrade (when duel core 64bit cpu's are available) then i'll definately look into this.

you shall be waiting for dual core athlon 64 cpus for quite some time. H2 of 2005 for those cpus, and expect em to cost muchoooooooo dollars. Though they will work in current motherboards with a bios flash i was reading, so that saves some money there. But current ones dont have pci-x and ddr2. So i hope your loaded :P

yep, i knew they were scheduled for late next year... intel have just announced a 64bit version of their processor (which i think is mainly due to winxp64 being released later this year) so this might rival the AMD64 somewhat and force prices down im hoping but obviously this is all a little while off yet. I'd be willing to paid a fair bit for it but it really depends how much they end up being ultimately, i may not even do another full upgrade until 2006 - 2007.

DUAL

From what ive read of Intels new 64bit cpu thats comming out in Q3 of 2004, codename Nocona, it is the next generation Xeon cpu, so thats not going to compete with the Athlon 64. But there have been rumours that after they release the new xeon nocona core cpu, they will then do a 64bit desktop Prescott with a 1066fsb.

I personally am waiting for Athlon 64 boards which pci-x and ddr2, then i'll go out and grab me an athlon 64 and overclock the bageezus out of it now they they released bios's that let you locking the pci/agp fsb.

i'm going to upgrade my computer when i have a need to, ie. when half life 2 comes out

wonder how this will stack up with alienware's offering... maybe 4 cards at once? or maybe not...