SLI Question

[tommyhie]

I have a PCIE Geforce 7600 GT 256 MB installed, my question is :

I dont have another pcie slot available, can i get another 7600 GT in pci and sli them even though they are on different ports ?

 

[LinkedKube]

you need one slot per card.

 

[Mirob]

You must have a SLi motherboard to use SLi. Just any o'll board with two PCIe slots will not work--nvidia's drivers will not allow it.

 

[beef_jerky4104]

No. SLi only works with an SLi Motherboard, and SLi requires at least two PCIe X16 slots (Or two PCIe X8 Slots).

 

[LinkedKube]

wow I guess I left that one open. And I'm running sli myself, sorry

 

[CMH]

Hrm. Never dabbled with SLI/Crossfire. I didn't know that you definately need SLI enabled boards for SLI to work.

What then would happen if you put another card into a spare PCIe X8 slot?


edit: I did a short google, and someone mentioned that Corssfire will work without SLI/Crossfire enabled boards.... Anyone have anymore info on that?

 

[Mirob]

AMD Plans To Open Cross Fire Architecture To 3rd Party Chipset
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/itnews.php?tid=748630


With more than one video card you can alway connect more monitors. That is what DFi says the other PCIe slot if for on my Ultra-D. Many people have modded that mobo to work in SLi. Some have even hacked nvidia's drivers to get SLi to work on Intel chipsets. I like the way AMD had opened up Crossfire. It seem to me if you have the card slots multi-GPU should just work.

 

[CMH]

I don't see why you'd need anything else for multi-gpu to work, really. Other than for profit reasons....