After the Quake2 3D/3-Montior appetizer we were anxious for the technology briefing and demonstration of Metabyte SLI driver technology to begin.

We were led into a conference room, in which a single PC stared back at us from the end of a long meeting table. The PC was configured as a P2-450MHz, 128MB model, with basic peripherals.

What wasn't a standard feature of the PC were the two PCI 3Dfx Banshee cards that Metabyte had installed in it, each a 16MB model.

Taking our seats around the table, Metabyte's engineers began explaining the technology behind the drivers, which we covered in detail in our Metabyte TNT SLI article from last week. Metabyte is concerned with delivering too much information about the way the procedure works, as they don't want any possible competition to begin replicating their technique just yet. We'll explain and detail just what the competition will have to do to surmount the Metabyte driver technology later in this article.

For now lets clarify some of the things that we reported in our earlier expose:

Metabyte used the term "SLI" to ensure that our readers understood exactly what it was that they were talking about implementing. We received countless emails last week from people asking for us "to tell Metabyte to stop using the SLI terminology". Metabyte will continue to use the standard SLI terminology until they're good and ready to replace it with a proper acronym.