Long has passed after this technology has been brought to IT market, but for those who don't know much about it, here is link to free content encyclopedia definition on -what else then -Wikipedia SLI definition
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA for linking two (or more) video cards together to produce a single output. SLI is an application of parallel processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the processing power available for graphics. With SLI, it is possible to theoretically double the power of your graphics solution just by adding a second identical video card.
The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full name Scan-Line Interleave, which was introduced in 1998 and used in the Voodoo2 line of graphics accelerators. When 3dfx collapsed financially, its intellectual property was purchased by NVIDIA. NVIDIA later reintroduced the SLI name in 2004 and intends for it to be used in modern computer systems based on the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. However, the technology behind the name SLI has changed dramatically.
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But ofcourse on site is the best source of information for everything regarding SLI, and that's ofcourse Slizone. This page has a really good flash animated movie on how SLI works, and of which parts it consists of..
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