As you know, NVIDIA is full of creative people who are passionate about building the world's leading visual computing systems.  One of the latest technologies we have is Hybrid SLI(TM).  Hybrid SLI has two main features, GeForce(R) Boost and HybridPower(TM).  HybridPower is a very interesting technology since it unleashes graphics performance when needed and switches to quiet, low-power quiet operation for everyday computing.  Its a great technology that allows NVIDIA to help contribute to a better world by intelligently managing the power in a PC.

So its not surprising that the same people that help build these same products also apply the same principles to their everday life.  One of those people at NVIDIA, Ross, has been working on converting his Porsche 914 to be an AC electric vehicle.   

The car carries 18 8-volt batteries in the front and rear of the car and as Ross put it, "that's 1,200 pounds of batteries."  The car regenerates energy through a battery charger in his garage and to charge the car entirely takes five hours, and a completely charged car can go approximately 120 miles before needing a fill up.  He drivers his car about about 65 mph, although he said it is capable of doing 90 mph. And now his next project: concerting a Jeep Cherokee to be electric.

Looking at all of the pictures of Ross' website of him tearing apart his car, I'm somehow reminded of all of the modders we have that like to add water blocks, neon lights, and other cases mods to their PC. I'm a huge fan of that, I've just never had the guts to do it. 

But I know a lot of you do so I'd love to see pics of your creations.  Please feel free to comment here and send me your links to pictures you may have posted in the SLI Zone Case Mod forum. or elsewhere.

Yesterday we announced the latest addition to our GPU lineup, the GeForce® 9800 GX2.  This graphics board has two on-board GPUs and is the fastest graphics card we offer.  There are a lot of great new features in this product, including HybridPower™, new PureVideo® HD features, and of course two GeForce 9 Series GPUs on it.  Oh yeah it also has and one more thing, Quad SLI!

I've been using my Quad SLI GX2 cards now for a few weeks and you can probably guess the first game I wanted to run, Crysis.   All I can say is "Wow!" Crysis at 1920x1200 with all effects turned on looks awesome.  Although I already passed the game in about three days (sorry Steffee, I guess I’m a better FPS gamer than you), I wanted to see if I would still like playing the game again at a higher quality settings.  I’m happy to say yes, the game is still enjoyable the second time around, and yes Quad SLI makes attacking Hunters a lot more fun.

Check out the video preview of the GeForce 9800 GX2 at Gamespot below.

One of our SLI Zone forum moderators, ChrisRay, did his own preview of the GeForce 9800 GX2.  Please visit the SLI Zone forums as ChrisRay is almost always on the forums, ready answer questions on the GeForce 9800 GX2 or other products.  Or feel free to post your comment here and we will be happy to respond.

Oh, how I wish I had more time to both game and blog.  Based on the poll, I started COD4 a couple weekends ago, but got side-tracked by a few things - work, travel, life, and most detrimental to my progress in COD4 - Guitar Hero III on my Wii.  For some reason, once that plastic guitar is slung over my shoulder, my addictive personality kicks in and I can’t seem to put it down.  While I managed to beat Lou and moved onto medium on Wii this weekend, I’m still plodding along in COD4. 

While you FPS pros conquer COD4 in a couple hours, it’s taking me much, much longer.  As a matter of fact, I thought I was reaching the end of the game last night when I found Al-Asad and watched him get shot (!), only to morph into Price in his pre-Captain years in the next sequence. So I decided it was time to check out the IGN Game Guide and realized I’m only a third of the way through the game!  Now here I am maneuvering through Chernobyl radiation in my woolly mammoth suit, getting mutilated by dogs at every corner.  Awesome!