On 19 May 2008 at 20:25, g.Computer9f wrote:

> Yes.  I misunderstood.  The PNY is running Nvidia GeForce6.  I'm now
> trying to figure out whether the fact that I only have ONE video card
> installed will matter to the GeForce6 SLi driver.... 
> AnnaSummers
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Gary Tennesen 
>
> The PNY more than likely is running Nvidia chipset -- are you sure that 
> device manager is not reported your PNY's chipset (Nvidia 6600)?


  My first thought was along the lines of "She spent extra money and effort 
to duplicate, in a slot, the vidoe built in on the motherboard?"  But 
although it's the same chipset, it's not an exact duplication.

  For one thing, although the AGP video card has it's own RAM on board, the 
motherboard video proabaly uses a chunk of system RAM.  Odds are that this 
can be rewritten by software a bit faster, but access by the video refresh 
circuitry may slow down software performance...

  That, in turn suggests that the different performance characteristics of 
the two sets of video circuitry may be different enough that SLi cannot link 
them together.

David Gillett

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