Volari Duo: Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts

I think it's fitting, the week after the GTX 590's release (and the month of the Radeon 6990's release) to look back on another dual-GPU card - this one hailing from 2003, and made by the short-lived XGI.

The Last Stand

Computer-related markets weren't always dominated by two opposing forces. But today all we see is Windows vs. Mac OS X. Intel vs. AMD. AMD vs. NVidia. Alternatives exist, of course, but they are niche, and have no intention of coming out of their corner of the sandbox.

The past was a smörgåsbord of competing brands, quite different from today.