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To: Jeffrey P who wrote (12865)	5/20/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: Michael G. Potter	Respond to of 16960

Since the V3 is based on the V2, SLI may not be that much of a stretch but it would need 2 PCI cards. I'm not sure what type of complication having a unified memory structure would add. In some ways, it would let people who want to run two monitors switch to one ultra fast monitor if they wanted to, but the demand may be too low to make it worthwhile (maybe Quantum here?). On another topic, isn't nvdia's share price starting to resemble 3dfx last year. Good earnings but more shares coming to market so the price is going down ... Michael ps - wish me luck, I'm in Atlantic City tonight

To: Jeffrey P who wrote (12865)	5/20/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

V3-SLI Well the main problem with SLI is that the AGP bus and the PCI bus run at different speeds. The only current implementation of v3-sli would be with the 2000. However, in the AGN hardware E3 wrapup it mentioned the 3500 being available in a PCI version sometime after the AGP version (hmmm.....), however, i really don't see the point in creating an SLI version of the V3 if it's only limited to a PCI-PCI connection. With AGP being the current bus of choice, the PCI-PCI SLI solution would be relegated to the ULTRA-niche market (unless of course, the create an AGP-PCI bridge) regarding "pattern" breaking... i definitely have to agree that something is different... after all under the old 3dfx, the board would be unusually quiet on up days, but now... almost 50 messages in the past 24 hours? sheesh...