Asus-A8N SLI good for 3d engineering programs?

[furioshonen]

Well, I have just moved to Taiwan and I am now in the need for a computer.

I will soon be working in a job that requires the used of Pro-e, Maya 4, Rino, Auto Cad 2000, Solid Works, and CAD-CAM. All of wich require a full load on processor and graphics cards.

I am also an advid gamer, and would love to begin playing DOOM 3.

In my research I came accross the A8N-SlI from Asus, if
the SLI works like its supposed to it could help with viewing massively detailed models. Also, if Nvidia's
cliam to help with rendering times around 10% then
it would be a great alternative to very costly workstations.

Even if all of the promisses of SLI come true, it seems to be that the AMD processor is the only one that can take full advantage its resoures. While the Pentiums motherboards seem to be clever not entirly successfull hacks.

Could this SLI interface be a real tool for a more ecconomical solution to a workstation? ...
or just a gamers toy?

 

[tweebel]

The problem with SLI is that nVidia has to support the application you are using to actually benefit from the second graphics card. I would take a good look at benchmarks in such applications.