My last post for today....

Well people
This is my last post today for this Nvidia-SLI blogg. What can I say? One thing for start this last month has really been an adventure for me. I won't bother you with everything what's on my mind. Just a few thoughts.

Slizone has really been an one-in-all place about everything regarding SLI. This blogg has really been a small piece of information and news from other tech sites around the web. For example I covered some topics on new graphic cards, motherboards or Memory on my blogg. While Slizone has really all the components on their site with detailed specifications (PSUs, computer cases, etc..) I didn't wanted to include much articles from Slizone, I think it makes no sense to do so, since other bloggers have quoted enough articles from this place. I just thought this competition will be more interesting if I look at the articles from various tech-sites.

I must say that I'm more or less proud of my blogg! God knows that it's definitely not perfect. I could not format some elements on front of my blogg!Sometimes I've really went mad about it! I just wanted to quit since I couldn't do what I wanted. It's like I wanted format the text in wordperfect:-) I've succesfully changed the font and size of the text. When I saw the preview everything looked fine. But when I've published the article on the web,the text was 0,01 cm big! I could not believe it, so I last 30% of my time arranging the articles to look o.k.If you look at labels from the right side (where I've putted links on graphic cards and motherboards - and complete system solutions), every 4,5 entry is in different colour!!! I really don't know how did this blogg service created it in different colours. It doesn't have anywhere an optionto manage colour of the links. Well that's another bug I've found. So instead to focus on finding new articles, I've last significant amount of time on fixing paragraphs and fonts.One thing is for sure, I will NEVER use this blogg service ever again! I'll find some other. It's my first blogg web page ever, and I must say I've never created a web page. That's why my blogg doesn't look like professionally. Not to mention the labels, cause on my page I have 'SLI power supplies' 5 posts, but when you click on that Label, it will show you SLI PSU's sectionwith 7 articles on it!! This blogg must have more bugs then windows 98 :-)

The other thing that I'm proud of is the fact that half of the posted bloggs were written while I was on work (luckily we have ADSL) and was able to quickly post the news on my blogg with pictures. The sad news is that the other half of my bloggs were posted while I was at home, on my 56Kbit modem!! And it was really a pain in the neck. I've spent so much time uploading the pictures.... really was frustrated with it.But hey, I survived it so...

Two things did bother me about this blogg contests that really bothered me.

1. I noticed that some people didn't behave fair. I ALWAYS wanted to be a fair contest, and may the best man win. So when I saw some news on SLI around the web, and if I
saw other bloggers to have posted the same news, I decided not to post them! I think it makes sense, since people could make their own blogg by just copy/pasting other peoples bloggs, and win this contest. I'm just sorry that people are ready to do everything to make their blogg as informative as others. It's just sad. Example, yesterday I saw that - well I won't mention any names - lets just call him 'person from Singapore' posted an article Overclocked XFX GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS XXX from hwupgrade.com. That's the very same news I've posted a couple of days ago. Just this blogger decided to post he article under different name :-) I just hope that the crew from Slizone or Vr-zone (whoever is in charge of announcing the winner of this contest) will have this in mind. And you can clearly see who saw the news first (all bloggs have the correct date and time when the blogg was posted on the web).

2. One thing I also noticed (and have posted on the vr-forums about it, but it seems that nobody cared about it :-( is that people have start to post topics that have nothing to do with SLI! The rules of this contest were crystal clear(to start a blogg with primary focus on Nvidia SLI). There isn't much sense to post news about Ati, Amd, Intel on this blogg, right? Well atleast that's my opinion.
That's all from me for now Bye

Goran Bosic

Please stop by to this contest discussion and drop in a note on 'NVIDIA SLI Blog Contest' thread.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=137205

VGA Charts - from TomsHardware

Well people this is (almost) my one last post for ending this competition. In my next post I'm going to write what do I think of this whole contest..

I just wanted to share one last thing, THG has really collected great information on single/multi graphic cards, and how much do you gain or lose performance in different games (Half Life 2: Episode One, Hard Truck Apocalypse, Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls 4, Prey, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, Titan Quest and 3DMark06) in different resolutions.
So be sure to check it out before you buy any of your future graphic cards, so you could know in advance how much performance will it give to you.
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Multi GPU Roundup: Quad SLI, SLI and Crossfire - from 24.09.2006

Little more than two years have passed since NVDIA first introduced their SLI technology. Short for Scalable Link Interface, SLI is the first solution to be able to connect two PCI-Express video cards based on the same GPU in a way that they will operate parallel to each other. This type of approach allows, at least on paper, to have an increase in performance of up to double what you would normally have with a single video card. In the first months of SLI’s release, it potential was limited by driver problems and other software errors.
However, forwarding two years into the future and with the release of several new driver versions from NVIDIA, SLI technology has really matured as a whole. Stability has been greatly improved and support has been added to an increasing list of games. SLI support has also been made more accessible to the general public with the release of average and entry level video cards that support the technology. Currently, SLI will even be made available on NVIDIA’s most budget level class of GeForce 7 video cards, the 7100 GS, thus making it a solution that is affordable and available to a vast amount of computer users.
At this moment, SLI and Crossfire technologies can be considered the first full phase of maturity for a broader category: multiple GPUs. The next phase is for more than two video cards being linked up to each other in an effort to, yet again, increase performance. As NVIDIA was first to reach the market with a dual video card solution, they have yet again been able to beat ATI in announcing a solution that utilizes more than two GPUs. The technology is, none other than, Quad SLI (the name isn’t very original). Quad SLI has four GPUs operating parallel to each other, theoretically doubling the performance in respect to an SLI setup.

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This here is a great link to view how much performance can you gain by building a SLI rig. Great link so you must check it out.

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XFX GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty 650MHz in SLI mode

As we draw close to the launch of the new GeForce 8600 and 8500 series from nVidia next week, we will likely see users getting rid of their current mid-range graphics cards and upgrading. When you got your 7600GT, you said to yourself, “I will get a second one eventually for SLI, when I can afford it”. Well, this might be the perfect time to pick up some very capable DX9 graphics cards with a reduced price tag to make way for the new upcoming models.
We have with us today the GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty from XFX (the version clocked at 650MHz core as opposed to the cheaper 560MHz) which is a bit fancier when compared to our standard run of the mill 7600GT. We’re going to have a look at exactly what the cards are capable of when running in SLI but also by itself.

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ASUS EN8600 GTS Comes Bundled with S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadows of Chernobyl

The new ASUS EN8600GTS/HTDP/256M is a high-end graphics card that will be released and bundled with the much anticipated first person shooter game S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadows of Chernobyl. Equipped with 256MB of DDR3 memory and able to support NVIDIA´s SLI™ technology, the EN8600GTS is designed with the gamer´s graphics expectations in mind. With such high-end specifications, this graphics card has earned the accolade of being the official global bundle partner of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. In line with this, ASUS´s G1 gaming series notebook – testament to its gaming-oriented design, also features in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R game itself.
The ASUS EN8600GTS utilizes NVIDIA´s unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology to deliver the finest graphics and visual special effects. With full support for NVIDIA SLI™ technology and Microsoft DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0, this graphics card will make use of the graphical enhancements from Microsoft® Windows Vista™ to enable stunning and complex special effects.

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