Is SLI only for grafic's? Like in gaming?

[joeeye]

Just a quick question.

Is SLI only for grafics when it comes to gaming?

Is there any other benifits with having SLI if I'm not into gaming?

Just wondering, thanks, Joe

[Avid6eek]

SLI/Crossfire's main purpose is for increased gaming performance. It has no other real benifit unless you own stock in your local electric company.

[AKHandyman]

Scalable Link Interface, or SLI, is strictly for using two graphic cards simultaneously. The most benefits one will see are faster frames per second and sharper images, however; it depends on the video cards, drivers and overall system specs. If you're not into gaming, then you don't need it. And even some gamers will say you don't need it, it's just all eye candy anyways ... ( and as old as I am, I have a hard time seeing anything anyways ... :D )

[joeeye]

thanks for that guys!!!

At one time I tried just for fun to hook up my TV set with my computer monitor, it was cool to have ran the mouse from my computer over into the TV set, BUT!!!! it was the crapiest picture I've ever seen, the TV was blury, fuzzy, it was all out of wack, distorted viewing, etc.... I wonder if SLI would make that all beter??? or is doing things like that, even more than one monitor more towards getting video cards set up the right way?

[Avid6eek]

The TV looked like crap because it runs at a horrible resolution, and the picture is meant to be looked at from a distance. Nothing will fix that. It'll get a little better on a HDTV because it supports a higher resolution.

[joeeye]

The TV looked like crap because it runs at a horrible resolution, and the picture is meant to be looked at from a distance. Nothing will fix that. It'll get a little better on a HDTV because it supports a higher resolution.

Yeah, cool....

"The good part" was when I figured out how to do something like that on my own....

"The bad part" was I paid out 12.00 for the Mono Audio/Video cable and have that kind of turn out :)

[Ominous Gamer]

nvidia has SLied their quadro cards as well. I've seen more then one medical imaging machine with SLied Quadro 4500s. Anything that uses a lot of video processing power and memory, or creates a large display area can benefit from dual graphics cards (and support).

S-video and composite video look like ass when going from the computer to the TV.
I suggest using a card with DVI if you TV supposts DVI or HDMI.
If it doesn't then a card with component output works as well (if your TV has component connections).

[joeeye]

nvidia has SLied their quadro cards as well. I've seen more then one medical imaging machine with SLied Quadro 4500s. Anything that uses a lot of video processing power and memory, or creates a large display area can benefit from dual graphics cards (and support).

S-video and composite video look like ass when going from the computer to the TV.
I suggest using a card with DVI if you TV supposts DVI or HDMI.
If it doesn't then a card with component output works as well (if your TV has component connections).

Thanks for that information. I'm going to post back when its time to play around with multipul monitors. :) I'm sure going to need help there.

I'm getting to the point where I wanted to try using all of what my motherboard had to offer in the way of what was sticking out of the back of the computer coming off the mobo, so this is why I tried that TV set hook up where I agree with you that it looked like ass, it sucked so bad I wondered why was that lead sticking out of my motherboard, what was it intended to be used for? Like what in the world did the manufacture figured it was needed to be used for?

Maybe it was intended to be used as a push in the sales department to choose that mobo because of an option nobody would use? so no need for it to work??? :)

[therealwesty]

TV Out works pretty well for movies and images. I connected my PC to the TV a few times to have friends over and watch videos I'd downloaded. I had a DVD-ROM in my PC before I had a DVD player as well, so we used to patch DVD movies over from the PC as well. Generally PowerPoint looks allright on a TV too, esspecially from a reasonable distance.

[yahooadam]

that TV picture is aweful beacause Pal is 768x576 @ 50Hz and NTSC is 646x486 @ 60Hz
So its a really low res
and then ontop of that its not a great picture cos u view from a distance

in all

bad joo joo

Edit
Oh yeh, SLI only supports 1 moniter (last time i looked) and its only SLI when the 2 are bridged

if u run 2 graphics cards but their not joined, their not in SLI
so u can run 4 screens without SLI and 1 with