Am looking at new motherboards and am interested to know if it is
worth getting a SLI motherboard.
Are they basically good for gaming only or are they benificial for 3D
applications also? I am not into gaming etc but looking to get into 3D
applications...
Is there a benifit with SLI for 3D apps..?
Thinking over getting an Intel chip set over a nVidia chipset.
"Tony G" <t.gas@hotmail.com> wrote...
>
> Am looking at new motherboards and am interested to know if it is
> worth getting a SLI motherboard.
>
> Are they basically good for gaming only or are they benificial for 3D
> applications also? I am not into gaming etc but looking to get into 3D
> applications...
>
> Is there a benifit with SLI for 3D apps..?
>
> Thinking over getting an Intel chip set over a nVidia chipset.
What 3D apps are you looking into?
Generally, SLI gives you faster frame rates in fast-moving games with
high-resolution graphics. There is probably no advantage to SLI otherwise
unless you are rendering complex 3D video.
OTOH, the SLI MoBo will have 2 physical 16X PCIe slots (though depending on the
MoBo, one of them may be electronically a 4x or 8x slot). The second slot may
be useful later for a RAID controller or other high-bandwidth add-in.
> Hi All
>
> Am looking at new motherboards and am interested to know if it is
> worth getting a SLI motherboard.
In my opinion, that might depend on whether dual monitors is a good
application for SLI.
> Are they basically good for gaming only or are they benificial for
> 3D applications also? I am not into gaming etc but looking to get
> into 3D applications...
>
> Is there a benifit with SLI for 3D apps..?
That's a good question IMO. I would
investigate/research whether SLI excels at running dual monitors
(information would be appreciated). If you have lots to do with your
computer, the really big increase in screen space dual monitors
provides is great. You also likely need big CPU power in order to
push two video cards, maybe depending on the specific applications.
> Thinking over getting an Intel chip set over a nVidia chipset.
I've used dual monitors for many years. Seems NVIDIA does it well.
Don't know about Intel. Isn't NVIDIA (like SLI) geared more towards
gaming? Just curious, I'm not trying to push NVIDIA.
>> Is there a benifit with SLI for 3D apps..?
>
> That's a good question IMO. I would
> investigate/research whether SLI excels at running dual monitors
> (information would be appreciated). If you have lots to do with your
> computer, the really big increase in screen space dual monitors
> provides is great. You also likely need big CPU power in order to
> push two video cards, maybe depending on the specific applications.
>
>> Thinking over getting an Intel chip set over a nVidia chipset.
>
> I've used dual monitors for many years. Seems NVIDIA does it well.
> Don't know about Intel. Isn't NVIDIA (like SLI) geared more towards
> gaming? Just curious, I'm not trying to push NVIDIA.
>
SLI, in and of itself, is primarily for gaming. Dual monitors will only work
by using the DVI and VGA connectors on one card since only one card is an
output card. You can disable SLI and use whatever each individual card will
support because you are then just using a dual video card setup instead of
SLI. Just a tick in a box in the Nvidia Control Panel switches SLI on and
off so it isn't a big deal.
Why get a SLI motherboard? 
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