nVidia’s FIRST SLI Gaming Setup! - RECONSTRUCTED

[@margyoan97]

I love these videos about old tech! Looking and moving forward is always important in tech, but celebrating the older, simpler and obsolete is the best way (in my opinion) the best way to celebrate progress itself.

[@w04h]

If the video outputing card is called “Master Card” shouldn’t the second one be called Visa?

[@CanIHasThisName]

Only when there wasn't a profile for a game because MC and Visa don't work together.

[@MikhaelAhava]

American Express next?

[@wetlettuce4768]

American Express would be more accurate since you need to be pretty well off to afford the second card.

[@lokibau]

ha

[@ygobe2]

English sli will be called Santander then

[@kevinfontanari]

SLI Optimized games: "Orange box, the" Interesting...

[@jezwc]

Side-door-mounted fans FTW, so much nostalgia !!

[@xmrsedibossgamer6294]

I have one... On my ANTEC ONE HUNDRED...

[@thewallduck2022]

I got one on my fx4300 pc

[@Gave-rf1hr]

Is this nlt a thing anymore ? I left gaming 10 years ago and my case had still a side fan lol

[@jezwc]

E G not really mate as the cases stopped coming with side mounts (mid to high range cases that is)

[@ygobe2]

@@Gave-rf1hr any reasons for leaving, or did u just get bored

[@sudhelm]

That 2:03 "Pretty cool!" WordArt Font from Microsoft Word 2000 reminds me of me doing my school homework back in the days and struggeling with the decision of which of those WordArt presets and ClipArt images would be the sickest to make my ugly homework look lit af :D

[@colinantink9094]

Cornelius Diefenthal I had a teacher who would half anyone’s marks if they used word art or clipart.

[@Unfamiliar_Fruit]

That's some heckin' relatable words you just did

[@yogalD]

WordArt was cool until people discovered FlamingText

[@TinchoX]

The good old days~~

[@Witcherino]

The simpler days.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

I'm working on an SLI vid me self, DUAL 8800 ULTRASSSSS - just got it together today, I think Linus is stealing my ideas :) Good video, I didn't know what OEM meant, now I know :-P

[@Gvideoscom]

Can it run....oh wait, he already answered!

[@djralyks7200]

Oof

[@ls200076]

Reconfigure B B But mom

[@cgraham6]

Curse you for posting this before me

[@alynoser]

I was typing it out as he answered it.

[@marcopasta6274]

Can it run away?

[@saltysteel3996]

I remember having three GTS250oc cards in triple SLI. Lol Then I had a GTX480 that caused global warming all by itself. Lmao Then I had a GTX750Ti. Now I have a GTX1080Ti, my first graphics card that was actually good at producing graphics. :D

[@charleswp71]

Salty Steel lol, my GTX 580 would warm the room and I only had one, that is still the hottest card I have owned including sli setups.

[@estring123]

u can save some gas and fry eggs/steak every time u play with the 480.

[@probablynotabigtoe9407]

1080ti First time you got more than 60fps and then you shit your pants out of excitement I bet

[@Christian-dc1sb]

my 1070 heats my room

[@slaaayx]

the gtx295 is more than stupid temperature wise

[@Emerald13]

One of my favorite vids as of late. Really interesting stuff, thank you Linus and team

[@guerillagrueplays6301]

It'd be pretty awesome to see y'all do this for the evolution of PhysX too. I remember back when the concept of a dedicated physics card became a Major Thing, and some of the screenshots magazines were pushing showing the difference in graphics settings you could have in a game just by shunting the physics processing over onto its own dedicated card, and it'd be nice to see if those first-gen or even second-gen dedicated-physics boosters really were all that and a bag of chips.

[@lolno1845]

RIP Tunnelbear :(

[@mynameisozymandias811]

Why? is Tunnelbear dead?

[@animaegray]

Worse. Acquired by McAfee.

[@NeenanJones]

animaegray whaaaaat

[@kanuh]

F

[@MadJackChurchill1312]

Holy fuck noooooo

[@jsheradin]

"Pretty freakin cool... when it worked" My exact sentiment after having 3x 290X for a couple years. I went to single 1080ti and doubt I'll ever do multicard again.

[@enricofermi3471]

Same here. My first and only time with SLI was 2xGTX Titan SLI, the very first generation of Titans, Kepler core with 2688SP and 6GB 384-bit VRAM. I had an 2560x1600 monitor (DELL U3011) at the time, and that was one of very few options I had to run it comfortably (normal GTX780 only had 3GB VRAM, and 780Ti, which afaik had 6GB variations, were not released yet - they saw the light roughly the same time as Titan Black with full uncut 2880SP, which also made me rage so hard... well, that's a topic for another long story), and boy did I have my share of troubles. Starting from accidental BSODs in a couple games like Metro 2033, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and some more, to just plain absence of SLI profiles for some somewhat demanding games and loads of other random issues (didn't see any of that frame stuttering, though). This went on until I upgraded to an EVGA GTX1080, which run almost as good, if not better, but everywhere and without troubles. Then I had to change my monitor to 3840x2160 BenQ SW271 cuz my good old Dell kicked the bucket, and had to opt for ASUS Strix RTX 2080Ti due to lack of GPU performance, which I sold three weeks ago for $800, and now I am struggling with that good old 1080, waiting for uncut GA104 3070Ti/Super with full 3072(6144fp32) shader units.

[@mahiru20ten]

How about AMD/ATi first Crossfire for next?

[@dhomini7140]

He wants it to work.

[@maddias291]

@@dhomini7140 my dfi LanParty RDX200 (first board with ati chipset) worked like a charm, if 3dMark06 was the only game you were playing.

[@WickedRibbon]

That case is fabulously tacky.

[@h0ax4316]

lol I have the same case

[@SaintedPIacebo]

what is the name of the case? did that ak47 window come standard?

[@h0ax4316]

SaintedPlacebo no that's not standard, he's got a modded case. And idk the name of the case, i bought a custom built pc, and it came with that case.

[@TSpencerWise]

2004 was a hell of a time

[@Gvideoscom]

It's about time!

[@muhammadsaeed9742]

RandomFlatShowsvideos it's about money

[@RettigJ]

But can it run cr*** oh... hi actually tried it!

[@ArtisChronicles]

pretty sweet looking case.

[@stopmotiongags5800]

Your channel helped me to build my first computer! THX!

[@patrick-ul5ws]

Same

[@gallzatron4046]

I'm sure I did too without realizing it. Watched like 10 different how to guides when I did it 2 years ago just to make sure. I'm sure an LTT video was one.

[@stck6315]

Same xd I used so much time watching tutorials on youtube beforehand that I didn't need any help while building the system.

[@ezentia5547]

I watched techsource vids to build mine

[@mattstari35]

That's really cool! Well done on taking the risk

[@justgamingjohnny338]

I remember my first SLI rig. It was not cheap, but considering doing an SLI rig now is just insane!

[@intelmike181]

The best card of all time is the 8800 GTX Ultra.

[@dinukap4]

Yes! I remember this 10 or more yeara ago

[@Droogie128]

8800gt. Couldn't be beat for the money.

[@kommandokodiak6025]

I love these retrospectives, fantastic job!

[@noodled6145]

4:52. Wait, this isn't JayzTwoCents

[@whatiskensworth]

3:06 OMG that "LanParty" SLI connector is a thing of beauty.

[@geniusaur]

that scrolling list of games made me uncomfortable

[@PsychoStreak]

Glad it's not just me. "SLOW THAT SCROLL you're giving me a headache!"

[@TheDyingScotsman]

Hah! I had that motherboard. The DFI Lanparty UT Expert SLI ! Amazing motherboard. I could overclock my Opteron 165 to 3ghz on air with that thing! Back in 2005! SLI is a gimmick nowadays. Unless you're playing crazy res and don't mind having more problems than you know what to do with, stick with single GPU. The fact you couldn't use the VRAM on the 2nd card just makes it kinda stupid as well IMO

[@vanord]

TDS Loved my DFI Motherboard!

[@sanjyuu2298]

"The fact you couldn't use the VRAM on the 2nd card just makes it kinda stupid as well IMO" It's not as stupid as it's just a result of how the technology works, since both cards are rendering same scene, it's clearly essential for both of them to have loaded same textures as it is impossible for the GPU of first card to access the textures on the other card with proper speed. Even if you can do it through SLI link, it would be just a shred of a bandwidth you have directly between GPU and memory.

[@Ferrislilly]

I had it too!

[@Rustler_One]

Actually, I picked up 2 DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboards a few months ago because they were cheap ($35 cad for both). Both came with Opteron 165. They both work, but one has an issue with the first pcie slot. lol

[@maddias291]

Was it toaster certified? There was a "3GHz club" back in the day on the dfi-street forums.

[@holgerheinrich2992]

Little recommendation : put the audio transmitter in your backpocket. It looks like you keep checking your phone every 10 seconds. Drives me mad bingewatching your vids! :-)

[@KevinMurray242]

It's actually the remote for the teleprompter. ...And yes, it drives me nuts too.

[@holgerheinrich2992]

I stand corrected! @Linus: You're a f*** millionaire! Get a slave-drone to do that job for you!! Are we allowed to say slave again..? Just wondering. This is not triggering SJW, this is a work-around for something driving me nuts!

[@EagleEye33]

He wants to stay one, too. Sometimes by being cheap where its easy. Remember, these days a Fortune 500 company stays a Fortune 500 company by not spending any money. So why not do the same? ;)

[@juicyandfruit]

Just get a pedal for this. Looks like they are stuck with this button in Linus' crotch area.. Very annoying

[@tripletoro]

i thought i was the only one distracted by this

[@Bandit5317]

Please make more videos like this. These retrospectives are great.

[@mini-_]

When I see that handle on the case side panel I immediately know it's Antec.

[@Raptor3388]

Chieftec used the same handle, well they were pretty much the same case, probably built in the same factory.

[@nerdalert-y3t]

I remember the days of running my x2 9800 card. It was SLI that was on a single card. Still had all the pains of getting SLI to run on whatever game you wanted, but man when it worked, IT WORKED. Many LAN parties were saved by the utilization of that cards power. Thanks for a nostalgia trip back to my younger years!

[@dylanbabcock7376]

Ahhhh yas the good days. I remember when my 9800GT was the golden child:)

[@theclinger]

At any point in time I'm a few shots of vodka away from going on ebay and building my own tri-sli 9800 gtx+ rig. So much envy.

[@hoogovens3261]

@@theclinger I have a 9800 gtx+ in my old Win XP machine and I can't count how many times I've been shocked at how well it performed.

[@cweber9112]

I watch a lot of KZbin videos, and you sir by far have one of the best intros to each video. Had to pause the video to comment that, lol.

[@maddias291]

The good old DFI LanParty boards, how I miss them... I had a RDX200 with two Ati X1800´s in Crossfire. Anyone else was on dfi-street forums these days?

[@Tc4ify]

Wasn't crossfire before 1950XTX notoriously bad?

[@maddias291]

@@Tc4ify dual gpu setups always have been a pita. No matter if nvdia or ati, only a few games really profited from the additional rendering power. For an X1800 or X1900 Crossfire setup you even needed a special "mastercard". For benchmarking 3dMark06 it was heaven though ;) I remember overclocking the crap out of my X1800s to run the built in F.E.A.R. benchmark till it artifacted all over the place. Those were the times... No power limits, no clock limits, you could literally fry the card(s).

[@Tolcum]

That looks like a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 board, which was my first motherboard! One thing about it that I liked was the jumpers to switch into SLI mode, where a lot of other motherboards of that time had daughterboards that had to be turned around to put the motherboard into SLI mode. I even had that case, repainted in red, with a large side window and several added fan holes. It's like looking at a blast from the past.

[@DavidMadeira29]

"I loved those stickers very long ago..." 🗨🤩💾

[@Dreamweaver94]

Nice video! I loved the history and performance of old tech! It all sucks now, but without it we wouldn't be where we're at today.

[@VAIBHAV-fl6dl]

Hey linus, could you make a video on explaining console dev kits?

[@rehmanarshad1848]

SGUB CLUB yeah I'd like that too.

[@RomanianReviewsNews]

This above^

[@beerussama8591]

yeah...that would be really helpful!

[@geekdomo]

My first dedicated card was a Canopus 3DFX card back in 1997-98? I remember getting it to work in DOS and the spinning 3DFX logo was a sign of success :D. Oh the feels

[@imatlastheyote]

That case screams “yeah, I play Counter Strike 1.6”

[@PixelPipes]

Good info. All very accurate and cleanly explained/illustrated.

[@gwcomputers]

Is that a (Diamond Flower Inc) DFI LanParty motherboard? OmG 😢 the memories

[@johns3655]

I just got a dfi lan party motherboard too😂

[@chrisrnz]

This is the most interesting video LTT has produced in ages. Now do one for present-day SLI.

[@DjadamGee]

Umm Déjà vu?!?!?

[@jellibelli288]

I'm loving the "old tech" style videos.

[@kitizz548]

Linus should get a foot pedal! I got super distracted every time I noticed him moving the script forward. (Awesome vid still)

[@theq4602]

Yeah, seriously it looks like he's trying to pull up his pants or some shit.

[@zakuraayame5091]

that bothered me for years, now i barely notice it.

[@stripes5773]

I really liked this video, informative, nostalgic, and fun. More like this LTT!

[@skaplabel7271]

Linus: I will be giving away computers. 5,4mil people: hahahahah a good one

[@MenderSlen579]

5.4 mil computers Dont lose hope

[@johntrussell7228]

I've ran SLI in every system I've ever built since it's introduction. It's never been better!!

[@Trance_Kitsune]

*UNREAL* Aw heck yeaaaa

[@macchiatto1811]

YO. You've got awesome art stuff. don mind me

[@Trance_Kitsune]

Thank you

[@billygray8863]

i was playing unreal gold eariler today

[@mykalcook]

Much more informative than the first one you guys did... I remember when they had SLI profiles rounded out enough to the point that getting 2x EVGA 9800 GT's made more sense than the 8800GTS. Didn't work in every game *cough* Quake Live, SC2 *cough* , but it worked well enough in others to validate having 2 cheaper (and smaller) cards over having the larger and louder older card. And yeah, even 2x 9800 GT's still had trouble with Crysis so i'm surprised that the 2 cards you gents assembled had even gotten it to run ok. Great video

[@thebloodyblock]

Do crossfire!

[@Toyota2GR-FE]

Yes!

[@Kingcake57]

please

[@johncate9541]

Forget Crossfire. Let's see dual Rage Fury MAXX cards...

[@ryandavies964]

My first decent GFX card generation! 2 6600GT's in SLI. The scaling we found (CS:S Zombie Horde mod crew) was yeah dependent on the games but with playing mostly Counter Strike: Source it hammered! Kids these days who weren't around then and compare it to today's SLI will see all these flaws but don't recognize it was for the time a bad ass and brilliant experience when it wasn't finicky. Which in my experience was the vast majority of the time. And yes it played Crysis xD

[@L0rd_0f_War]

Is Linus reaching for his phone (in his right jeans pocket) or just scratching himself every few frames??!! (maybe he has a attached button for his teleprompter there?!!) - its hard to ignore once you start noticing it!!!

[@SicSemperBeats]

Sikandar Khan at what time in the video?

[@L0rd_0f_War]

Look closely mate, he does it throughout the video - watch his right hand...

[@Slanderist]

He does it in every single 'to camera' video. It is very f**king annoying. I think it is the sound recorder device he has touch every few seconds. Wish he would stop!

[@thestarglider]

I think (and this is a theory) that it's the autocue, and he is flipping a screen to the next part of the script. Why it's not adapted to be done by pressing a button with his foot is beyond me though.

[@Matt-mt5it]

It’s to advance the TelePrompTer screen

[@00Klingon]

I love the case aesthetics of that time period. Bullet hole stickers are a bonus!

[@radar._.]

not in my sub box lol, but I got that notification

[@falk2009]

Thats what its for, because KZbin is incompetent!

[@radar._.]

I agree

[@Wickedcpu]

This video brought back great memories. An old build of mine included that exact motherboard, FX-55 & a 7900GTX.

[@Scorpion-md8hb]

Hi random person scrolling down...I just wanted to tell you : I hope you will get the gpu you wanted :)

[@Jimmy_Jones]

IKH TV I don't want one so achieved.

[@am7ha7]

got 1080ti sli; im happy

[@Scorpion-md8hb]

am7ha7 DAAMN ..lucky you ....and im here just dreaming about a single 1080ti

[@teleotto]

Retro PC gaming vids from you is cool!

[@munxcorp]

STB didn't have quality? All the Voodoo cards made after the buyout were built so well only the best companies like Matrox or Diamond could compete quality-wise

[@KillBoyUK]

munxcorp says who?

[@Bewefau]

the dumb ass making the video said they didn't have quality. But anyone who was living during that time and followed the 3dfx voodoo line knows they where the best graphics card to buy period. Nvidia sucked ass.

[@FaBNEk]

Well, that’s a bit of a lie, the TNT 2 ultra was a brilliant card, and wasn’t limited to 1024x768 and worked with all games unlike the Voodoo cards, and there is no denying that the first Geforce kicked everyone’s ass!

[@lucasrem]

munxcorp, Jessie James Voodoo 5 cards, nVidia needed to produce them by law, releasing them 2 years to late, promoting their own 5th generation favoring the less good OpenGL card. T&l hardware acceleration gen cards moved the market overnight, killing all Open GL developing.

[@DARKDUDE187]

I had a P532SLI with a pair of 7800 GT's and I loved it. Half Life 2, Doom 3, Fear it did every game I played with zero issues if there was an SLI profile which was fine as Nvidia was releasing drivers every 2 weeks or so (unlike ATI's every 18 month schedule) so you were covered. The ptice difference between a GT and a GTX especially on launch day was large and for a little more money I got a lot more frames per second. When the board caught fire I replaced it with a P6N Diamond and it worked even better. But yes a driver update with new SLI profile were key.

[@five5105]

Wait are those Ben-10 graphics cards?

[@tonyhong20]

Lazy Only the best for Linus. XFX ones too!

[@carimpest]

ThyBonesConsumed they still do... Just that now is not that cringie

[@Cbamptronious]

Love it, more classic stuff PLEASE!

[@amnesiai]

LAN quake 2 on my riva tnt2 baby!!!

[@Official_Mr_Lex]

God damnit. Someone pointed out his hand going into his pocket every few seconds and now I can’t unsee it. Lol.

[@ghostyahiro9503]

Jorge Diaz i think its to change the script on an off camera monitor

[@Official_Mr_Lex]

Ghost Yahiro oh yeah I know but I never noticed it before and now that someone pointed it out I can’t not notice. lol

[@dophir17]

Time for an AMD history lesson. Also, a comparison between CrossfireX and SLI

[@NetRolller3D]

Roosevelt Jones And let's not forget the original CrossFire.

[@basshead.]

SLI was better than CFX. Nowadays they are both crap.

[@DeViceCrimsin_]

Love this Tech history episode. More please!!

[@MrHav1k]

Ah the good ole days of Doom 3, UT2004, FEAR, and Crysis!

[@lucasrem]

TheHvk nVidia, Linus is promoting them, changing history! Why you noobs need this Linus bullshit talk? Need promoted items?

[@jamesp4521]

9700 pro

[@sl9sl9]

aaaaand Half Life 2!

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

halo?

[@jessehill9993]

I think these good old days were a little earlier. Voodoo 2 is still the 90's. Long before those games yet Voodoo 2 SLI can run Potato Doom 3!

[@brumby92]

I loved crossfire. My first build was $1000 AUD for the box and $1380 for the monitor and shipping. 6 months later I got another ATI HD4850 for $150 off eBay and doubled my frame rate in COD4. Also two matching graphics cards looks super badass. Did the same thing later, with a 7870 and it sucks that I can't right now with a GTX 980. I had top, bottom and side fans and the bottom card would be 70 degrees, the top would be 82.

[@sandman2257]

Looks like something the Borg from Star Trek made.

[@johannesjoestar208]

I like these videos. It's cool to see how hardware was back then.

[@TRYtoHELPyou]

Dude, I have that case but in grey.... Solid grey... Noice

[@nissan300zxmike]

It was the OLD Alienware case, I had the same color with door version. Just made me realize I'm old :(

[@scythelord]

There were a lot of generic cases that looked like that if I remember.

[@C-S-J]

At the time there were a lot of boutique system builders using a modified version of that case or its siblings. The original is from the Antec Performance Plus series, this model being the PLUS660 AMG. I still have the big brother version, the PLUS1080 AMG. They were fantastic cases when they came out (2002), I got my 1080AMG in 2003, and I still use it for one of my computers.

[@dealspeed6756]

CSJ I had a Antec just like that but it had a door covering the drive bays, loved that case

[@h0ax4316]

Same but mine is black, like the one in the video.

[@J4c03]

That case brings back the feels

[@odinswolf1969]

I had a voodoo 5 card and it was amazing

[@BramSLI1]

My first SLI system had a pair of Leadtek 7600 GT cards. I had them running on an A-Bit KN8 SLI mobo. For those that can recall, AMD was first to release NF4 chipset boards that supported SLI. It was pretty badass.

[@BrandonA]

Damn... BFG... My first Nvidia card was a BFG 7800 GT when I was 15. I remember standing in CompUSA in the early 00's looking at all the expensive AGP x4/x8 GPU's and saving up holiday/chore money to buy one after like a year ;_;

[@charleswp71]

Brandon A. Like 3dfx, bfg made stupid business decisions and killed themselves

[@jessehill9993]

the BFG warranty I will never forget! Such a great brand. A lot of my BFG stuff still works. I still have my BFG 6800GT.@@charleswp71

[@nbrikha]

I remember building a theoretical rig using GT8800s with SLI. Such a throwback. Cool

[@JustinY.]

This is good for bitcoin.

[@SharpElement]

dude

[@kashitymerchant928]

An unpopular Justin y comment

[@jarsky]

XFX 6800GT XXX Alpha Dog's were my first NVIDIA SLI setup. Running on a Q9550 with XFX 790i Ultra SLI motherboard. My very first SLI setup was a Pentium 2 450Mhz on Asus P2B with a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee & 2 x 3Dfx Voodoo 2 3D acclerators in SLI. It was amazing technology at the time, but im glad we've reached a point where we have massive cards that can do the job. The title support was extremely hit or miss.

[@TheBunnyb0y]

85 degrees heat seems normal for a graphic card thats running a game at its best ? i think ?

[@hw2508]

I still have both the Voodoo 2 and the first GeForce. As much as I liked the Voodoo, the GeForce was a game changer. We went from 4 MD EDO RAM to 32 (?) MB DDR memory within such a short time. Also the new AGP bus and the superior GPU. The Voodoo came at a time when CPUs had around 100 to 300 MHz. A couple of years later CPU frequency had doubled and 1 GHz was just around the corner. So much stuff happened in just a couple of years in the PC market. First CD-ROM was introduced and then CD-R / RW. Also USB came around. First only to get rid of your old parallel and serial ports used for printers and modem. But it was like switching from horseback riding to driving cars. From the beginning of the 90s to the end of the 90s the PC had fundamentally evolved. Heck, even Windows changed from 9x to a NT/2000 based system for the home user. And that was the time when for most people the PC was the only device for home compute. No smartphone, no tablet, etc.

[@slashbluezpix5680]

My realy old setup.... 😍 Cpu: AMD fx 55. Motherboard: an8 sli deluxe. Ram: 2gb a-data. Gpu: 2x 6800ultra. So f*king Nice old setup. ^_^

[@ItsJrTheFur]

My current setup core 2 duo e7600 6 gb DDR2 Ram (667 Mhz) NVidia Quadro NVS 290 (I know it's a bottleneck) 1 TB At 7200 RPM 300 Watt Atx PSU And suprisingly windows 10

[@-cryogena9290]

My current setup CPU: Intel i5 5500 Motherboard:*will update once I double check* Ram:g.skill ripjaws x. 2 2gb 1600mhz Gpu: ghost XFX R7950 5gb (black edition)

[@iftekharsafi4861]

My one is old af I5 3470 GPU-1650 super the only new thing 16gb adata 1600mhz ddr3 Crucial 1tb ssd Samsung 870 evo ssd 1tb Corsair 550watt

[@seonis]

My setup: CPU:Intel Pentium G4600 RAM:16GB DDR4 2400 mhz GPU:MSI RX 480 8GB PSU: Corsair 450 Watt 120GB M.2 SSD & 500GB 7200RPM HDD Windows 10 pro

[@Avi850R]

My setup: CPU i9 9900k GPU RTX 2060 SUPER 1tb Hdd 1tb crucial nvme ssd Mobo: Asus ROG Strix Z390H 750W Power supply 32GB RAM

[@darek4488]

I still own PCI-Express version of GeForce 6800 Ultra with the famous mermaid together with a briefcase box and everything it came from the factory. I remember how crazy it was to have a two-slot graphics cars at the time. Before that the only card like that was a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, but it was an AGP card. When the GeForce 6 series came out all the models were available for AGP slot for compatibility or PCI-E slot for new builds. Barely anybody upgrading at the time stuck with AGP, everybody knew that PCI-E was here to stay and people changed graphic cards together with motherboards. From 2001-2007 were the crazy times when so many new technologies were coming up that your computer was outdated in half a year since you bought it. From generation to generation of graphics cards and processors the performance literally doubled.

[@EricICX]

But can it run Crysis 2?

[@tingokuman]

In those days an sli certified gaming machine doubled as a space heater on those cold winter nights. 😊

[@DavidScheiber]

I skipped ahead to see if the editing/glitch error made it into the video Sorry to disappoint... It didn't If you don't know what I'm talking about go watch Taran's video

[@zendorea]

OMG, I miss my LanParty MoBo... my first tricked out system i built had one! Kudos for the SLI bridge LTT

[@droosoo]

they made SLI to play pacman

[@kongkerwin5556]

how time flies. I couldn't believe that it has passed almost 15 years.

[@BobMcCoy]

*DELL OPTIPLEX?!*

[@PsychoStreak]

That's no OptiPlex, boy! NO OPTIPLEX!! It's an Antec Performance Plus 660 with a modded side and top panel, and the stock fan brackets removed.

[@RebelStateSovereign]

Bob McCoy lol

[@zubbbz8541]

I see you watch Rick and Morty

[@lucasrem]

Bob McCoy only DELL XPS systems did nForce SLi or other SLi expansion slots.

[@hartsickdisciple]

Great video! I never had dual Voodoo 2's in SLI, but I did have a Voodoo Banshee and a Voodoo 3 (still in my retro gaming PC). I had 3 Nvidia SLI systems. Dual 6600gt's, 7900gt's, and 8800gt's.

[@jc265]

Linus digressed. He's turning into Jay.

[@lucasrem]

50cent Linus, Hip Hop skills, the racing, Nissan Z driver too? Jay's Garage? Leno?

[@SuprSi]

I didn't realize only Jay could digress :P

[@theendurance]

atleast not as much as michael vsauce

[@WickedGamerCollector]

Idea was really cool, slap a second card in it and boost up your performance. (If possible / supported ) 😆

[@greebj]

I'm old enough to correctly guess the first nvidia SLI capable card was the 6800 ........

[@shinya2104]

had sli the year it came out, I never had the problems you speak of,and i went sli with 3 other set ups through the 2000's.

[@XxUltimateGodzXx]

At 8:42, just replace "second card" with "RTX" and it all makes sense lol.

[@carltonleboss]

Oof

[@0s0sXD]

Cool background music, I find it suitable for the video and it's fun. awesome

[@ccleorina]

ATI first Crossfire then next PLZ!!!!!!!

[@SuprSi]

lol, I remember running x850xt crossfire, was a fun time to be into computers!

[@48Foxhound]

Nice! My first gaming computer had an Athlon 3800+ and two 6600 GTs in SLI. I can't believe how old that tech looks now.

[@theplayernkc]

You're young, mine was a AMD K6-2 cpu and nVidia Riva TNT2 video card.

[@DeathSkullY]

I have a feeling that i've seen this video before... Am I going insane?

[@noodled6145]

stop.

[@gasparspeed]

Good Old DFI LanParty 939 boards. I miss them so much. Such a cool board.

[@barefeg]

Please get a proper teleprompter. Putting your hand down to click your phone 10 times per minute is triggering ne

[@Workmusic1988]

Prastt oh, is that what it is? I’ve been wondering that. It’s so annoying!

[@barefeg]

Ashley Henderson yes they explained the system a very long time ago

[@cliqist]

I with you. Only recently subscribed but my enjoyment goes down a notch every time he reaches down...

[@DistantThomas]

Why did you have to point that out?

[@djbusters]

So it's just not me but others also noticed the teleprompter clicker. But keep up the good work. Cheers!