[oblivious_maximus]

I gotta confirm this, but I believe that you don't need two cards from the same manufacturer, or with identical BIOS versions, anymore. SLI for the 6200 and 6600 is now available, and the special bridge is not required anymore, although performance will decrease without it

if that's the case, then ATI has a lot of work to do if what I've read about Crossfire is right - with Crossfire you can use 2 different models from different manufacturers, but if you use, say, an x700 with an x850, the x850 will run at x700 speeds. I read that a few months ago, maybe they've wised up since...? if they're smart they will i guess.

all that makes SLI seem a lot more appealing than it used to.

[ivanolo]

Originally Posted by [H

ard|OCP]With new features coming out in NVIDIA’s ForceWare 80 series in October, you will be able to mismatch vendors, mismatch the BIOS on each video card, and even mismatch clock speeds and STILL maintain the clock speed of each video card. For example, suppose you have a 7800 GTX GPU that runs at 430MHz and a second 7800 GTX GPU that runs at 490MHz. With the new ForceWare 80 series of drivers, the clock speeds of each card will be maintained. We find this approach more flexible.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODE1LDE2

[mushu]

to sum up: 1+1 = 1