GTX460 SLi overclocked, mated and put in context

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Know your history

Despite the weak-arsed take-up, millions and millions of dollars continues to be spent trying to perfect multi-GPU technology.

KitGuru wonders why,  ponders if there any (true) benefits from this kind of technology and asks how useful is GTX460 SLI?

First, let’s have a quick look at the history – but without the rose coloured glasses.

Back in the hot and steamy summer of 2004, senior executives from AMD and nVidia were busy making the sweet love under the ‘anything goes’ Californian sunshine.

These sun-tanned and freshly-oiled partners in technology could not stop saying nice things about each other or extolling the virtues of an Intel-free world in the future.

On November 17^th that year, a younger and more idealistic Bryan Del Rizzo stepped into the crowded technology journalist waiting room and announced that AMD and nVidia had indeed mothered a brand new offspring, featuring something called SLi.

In keeping with Californian hippy tradition, the new born baby was given the rather awkward name Asus A8N-SLi and a new era of hype and FUD was born.