ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Enthusiast SLI Bridge

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ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced the ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge for sturdy Scalable Link Interface (SLI®) connections in a stylish design. Since its appearance at 2015 International CES®, ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge has been warmly received by the media and PC enthusiasts alike.

ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge is compatible with selected ASUS and NVIDIA® reference graphics cards for two-, three-, and four-way SLI configurations to give users smooth gaming visuals with unrivaled performance. The two-way ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge includes two printed circuit boards (PCB) with different slot layouts to ensure maximum compatibility with two-way graphics cards installations. ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge features an illuminated ROG logo and a sleek brushed-aluminum finish for a premium feel. It also provides customizable LED effects with certain NVIDIA GeForce Experience LED Visualizer-compatible graphics cards. ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge also includes an additional power cable to ensure the ROG logo remains illuminated at all times.
 
The 2way bridge is pretty cool, seeing that it will support 2 different spacing options. May have to pick one of these up....if they aren't too expensive.
 
Im surprised I dont see more of these bridges...the flexy cheap ones that come with cards are pretty uninspired. they dont look showy and then they dont blend either...if was just a solid black component I'd be satisfied.
 
ROG Enthusiast...
...compatible with selected... reference graphics cards...

I thought we were going to see there finally be a solid bridge compatible with the STRIX cooler with that headline... :(
 
Someone finally made a 2-way SLI bridge that supports a space inbetween the video cards. Incredible. Guess I'll be buying one for my setup.
 
Yay for more overpriced stuff that makes no difference whatsoever for performance.
 
cyclone3d said:
Yay for more overpriced stuff that makes no difference whatsoever for performance.
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There must be a market for that kinda stuff. It does seem weird though for someone to care what something looks like that's buried inside their computer, but if it makes the buyer sleep better at night or scratches some itch that doesn't make sense to most people, it's okay with me. I like seeing money changing hands.
 
Those look pretty good. Perfect for a final touch in my red and black themed system. Well, if it works with their 780, that is.
 
Nvidia still needs to connect their cards together with bridges? What is this 2008?
 
Chunder said:
Nvidia still needs to connect their cards together with bridges? What is this 2008?
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Yeah I wonder when they will ditch the cable. AMD's new system really is nice, not having to worry about this at all.
 
Heres an idea: if your gonna do SLI/Crossfire bridges why not make them easily expandable and have maybe a sliding system where the ports can slide up and down and you can add more to one? would that be too much?
 
Cataulin said:
Heres an idea: if your gonna do SLI/Crossfire bridges why not make them easily expandable and have maybe a sliding system where the ports can slide up and down and you can add more to one? would that be too much?
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Because the number of traces on these little PCBs would mean a high field failure rate and a lot of pissed of end users.
 
Term-X said:
Chunder said:
Nvidia still needs to connect their cards together with bridges? What is this 2008?
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Being an nVidia guy at this moment, I'd have to agree.
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Me, too. Hopefully they will deprecate this outdated method with Pascal. Would seem kind of obtuse when PCI-E 4.0 and NVLink are eliminating any remaining bus latency in the system to still have this ribbon that introduces latency into the system.
 
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skypine27 said:
Thanks man

Amazon has them for "extra" insane prices:

http://www.amazon.com/Brand-Genuine-Enthusiast-Bridge-Graphics/dp/B00XGH4QN6

Little cheaper on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-ROG-En...-Bridge-new-/252106159407?hash=item3ab2b2b52f
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Jeebus...that's crazy pricing. Hope Asus releases them in US/NA officially soon. Love your red LED theme...that's my color preference, as well. Wish eVGA made selectable LED colors for this $700 980 Ti Classified I have so I could get rid of the gaudy white and go with red. :(
 
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