From Household Clutter To Exponential Equations
littlelion | 16 July, 2007 18:31
A pair of video cards with 3dfx chipsets connected by an SLI-cable from Diamond Multimedia... and I call it the ancestor of SLI technology. As you can see, this is physically far different from the SLI that we have today. In meaning, it is different as well: SLI yesterday was Scan Line Interleave; SLI today is Scalable Link Interface. Despite the physical and definitive difference, the game is just the same: parallel graphical processing.
It is so amazing how technology, not only in the aspect of computer graphics, has really changed within few years only. The computing world had first encountered the old SLI in 1998 and six years after when it met the current SLI that we know: beautiful, larger and yet, more power-hungry. It was unlike in the Middle Ages when it takes centuries before a technological breakthrough is overshadowed by another. The world has been really transformed and transforming continuously into a set exponential equations.
Ah, here's another jurassic animal I found. I don't have to tell you what it is...
Don't get confused, this is NOT HardwareZone Philippines circa 1990... we're still in 2007 
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littlelion | 17/07/2007, 16:51
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I got the video cards from an old Dell Optiplex Gn desktop which is so heavy compared to the modern desktop. I even tested them and then played CounterStrike. The processor? I forgot where but I didn't bother to test it. Thanks.