Gepost door Femme Taken - Dinsdag 27 April 1999 - 18:08 - bron: Sharky Extreme  

Sharky Extreme heeft een artikel met de laatste stand van zaken rond Metabyte's PGP (Parallel Graphics Processing) Technology, in gewone mensen taal ook wel "SLI" genoemd. Volgens Sharky Extreme heeft Alienware een exclusieve licentie genomen op PGP driverset. Alienware zal daarmee de enigste distributeur zijn van PGP kaarten:

At this point the leading candidates for the now Alienware owned PGP driverset technology supposedly consist of two Voodoo3 PCI cards working together via PGP, and possibly down the road, two TNT2 PCI cards working together in tandem.

Again, details about the way that the PGP kit's sales and support will be performed by Alienware are still unknown, including whether the innovative company will offer the video packages only with new Alienware PCs, or in a separate format that anyone can call up and order for their own rigs.

A couple of things have been verified though, the PGP cards will need a hardware modification in order to work with the drivers (most likely a simple connector port for the two cards to link). Also, Alienware will have to reach agreements with whatever card's manufacturers they want to use for their kits, whether it be 3dfx, Creative, Diamond or whoever, due again to the hardware change required of the boards. Two Diamond Viper770s would be our personal pick for PGP heaven….

Als Alienware de PGP kaarten ook los gaat verkopen dan valt het nog sterk te betwijfelen of ze ook hier in onze Hollandje terecht zullen komen.

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