Question about SLIing down the road

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Hey guys. I had a question about SLIing my 8800GTX down the road.

I've never SLI-ed a system yet, but as I understand it the two cards have to be the exact same model. So here is my delima; on my list currently is an EVGA Superclocked 8800GTX which I'm not SLIing right now.. but when I decide to, what are the odds of that same model staying around? Should I just get the non-superclock, the standard one, in hopes of better odds getting a matching model? What happens to overclocking when you SLI, do you have to OC both cards to exact same settings?
 
you can have a non superclocked one but it must be same model/series, doesn't have to be same brand, I believe both will run at the slower settings of the two just like system ram will do.

With mine i found i had issues with clocks on one card causing issues, but i flashed both to the newest revision avail and with the same clocks and runs ok.
 
What will happen is that the higher card will CLOCK DOWN to the lower card. Also, i'm not sure how long the Superclocked cards will stay out, it could be 2 months it could be more. Its usually 2-3 months... And then the smaller retailers start carrying them.
 
Yeah, the SLI setup will just run at the slowest clock as long as your GPU model is the same its supposed to work fine.
 
Ah, thanks for the reply's guys :D

I think what I'll end up doing then is just buying the standard and OCing the card myself through nTune, then do the same when I slap on the 2nd card. The 'superclocked' EVGA runs a 621mhz Core and 2000mhz Memory Clock, and I'm not sure I can replicate that through nTune (never had a board that supports it yet) but its better than paying for a superclock and not getting all that I paid for in 3 or 4 months.
 
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