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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Frosty on October 24, 2005, 08:03:40 PM

Title: SLI
Post by: Frosty on October 24, 2005, 08:03:40 PM

For SLI do u have to have  2 video cards? i keep hearing different things.. can i run off just 1 video card?

Title: SLI
Post by: TekieB on October 24, 2005, 08:17:49 PM

to run in "sli mode" you need 2 video cards, but you can have one "sli compatible" card. And you need an "sli compatible motherboard" and 2 "sli compatible" vid cards to run in SLI mode.

yeah...that (it is confusing)

SLI mode is the 2 video card thing.

Title: SLI
Post by: Frosty on October 24, 2005, 08:27:03 PM

will it still run off of 1 video card? will it still be nice at gaming?

Title: SLI
Post by: TekieB on October 24, 2005, 09:09:03 PM

you can still run 1 video card, and will be able to game well

Title: SLI
Post by: cuzzNkev on October 24, 2005, 11:06:34 PM

I run SLI.

SLI is completed by having two matched video cards (ie 6800 GTs) on the PCI-X bus.  A small bridge card is connected between the two video cards.  One card renders the top half of the screen, while the other renders the lower half.  The drivers complete the necessary load balancing between the two cards.  

However, you only get one output (no dual monitors that I have found).

Title: SLI
Post by: TekieB on October 25, 2005, 05:39:46 AM

Quote from: "cuzznkev"

I run SLI.

SLI is completed by having two matched video cards (ie 6800 GTs) on the PCI-X bus.  A small bridge card is connected between the two video cards.  One card renders the top half of the screen, while the other renders the lower half.  The drivers complete the necessary load balancing between the two cards.  

However, you only get one output (no dual monitors that I have found).

IT'S NOT PCI-X! PCI-X is a buss used in servers, PCIe is PCI express

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Title: SLI
Post by: cuzzNkev on October 25, 2005, 10:30:59 AM

Chill out dude.  Sorry for the bad nomenclature, but we are not all technical gods.

Title: SLI
Post by: sully! on October 25, 2005, 05:05:39 PM

He gets the same way when people call Ecstasy "x" instead of "e" (http://www.nearlygood.com/smilies/sign70.gif)