Sharky Extreme's on-site visit to Metabyte gives first hand impressions of Metabyte's recently announced multiple accelerator setup (that they're insisting on calling SLI for the time being) as well as a setup running Quake II on three Wicked3D Voodoo2 boards running three monitors, all in stereo with the eyeSCREAM glasses. They describe the multiple accelerator setup as two Voodoo Banshees running together for about a 40% performance improvement with no loss in visual quality, and there is a rundown of other cards they plan on using with this technology. Here's a bit:

Unfortunately, since the entire industry was shocked to learn of the Metabyte drivers via Sharky Extreme last Tuesday, all negotiations or agreements haven't even gotten to step one yet. This means that widespread SLI solutions based on newer parts like the S3 Savage4 or PowerVR250 or Permedia 3 are at least three months away, minimum.

To fulfill the need for a high-powered SLI option ASAP, our sources have indicated that Metabyte will most likely market two nVidia TNT based cards (one AGP, one PCI) under their own Wicked3D flag. No one knows if Metabyte will be a high-volume capable supplier as they were with last year's Wicked3D Voodoo2 card, but if they do take this course of action, they'll probably be able to handle anything thrown at them.