General question about SLI

[morgwon]

I know in the beginning to switch into SLI for the most part you had to switch it on via different ways that required cracking open the case and flipping something on the mobo. Is that still the case or is it something that can be enable via Forceware software? Reason for my question is I intend to dual boot with Fluxbuntu and XP pro/Vista (haven't decided whether to make the jump). Only purpose of the Windows boot is for gameplay. Now I would love to run 3 (maybe 4) monitors on my two video cards while in Fluxbuntu and then when I game just kick into SLI within Windows for some nice gfx action. If it requires something like removing the bridge then its not worth it to me. Anybody have any thoughts?

 

[Frek77]

You can enable/disable SLI via the driver panel. So even with the SLI bridge in place you can still disable SLI and the comp will still recognize the two separate cards.

If you are using a newer board like a 680i there is no hardware switch or card to worry about. You simply set SLI to "auto" in the bios. Again you can leave this bios setting and disable SLI via the driver panel. The SLI bridge doesn't appear to affect anything unless you enable SLI.

Now whether this will work for what you want, I'm just guessing as I've never tried to do this.

 

[morgwon]

thanks. Anyone else? I guess best way is to mess with my current box that I am about to finish building.