8800GTX Sli help

[1337pandamanprod]

Bought one 2 years ago new - just picked up another used - tested alone - works fine - want to run sli on my board - Need to know if both sli bridges need to be connected - My card only came with one bridge and the used did not - if so where can i get one - also - I bought some kingston 4-4-4-12 "sli ready" ram but the bios still says not detected - any idea's

 

[rennyf77]

no need for both bridges. auto overclocking with sli ready ram is a joke and never worked reliably with every kit nor every sli board. nvidia doesn't support that feature any more.

 

[1337pandamanprod]

Thanks again

 

[BloodyIron]

Depending on the motherboard you might have to tweak a setting.

For my motherboard (680i SLI) I have to set it to 0% OC, instead of disabled OC for it to detect the presence of the "SLI Ready" RAM. I suggest selecting similar settings which do not OC your proc or other parts, but might trigger the mobo to pick up on the RAM's settings.

As for the 8800 GTX's, they have two connectors because they are 3-way/Tri-SLI capable. You only need to use both when using 3. The single connector will be sufficient for 2-way/Bi-SLI.