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SLi Connector Question?

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Hey guys, I know if anyone on the planet would know this you would. I am ready to purchase a Supermicro server board, and a Nocona Xeon setup. Because I was dropped on my head a couple of times, I figure I may adopt SLi early since I was building this server anyway. My question is this, I cannot seem to find anyone who provides the SLi bridge connector to connect the two cards. I have called SuperMicro, and they said the dont provide it, and have no intentions of doing so, and that it should come with my Video Card. So I call eVga, BFGtech, and a couple other guys, and they say they dont make the connector. So frustrated I call nVidia, and ask them, and they say it should come with my motherboard.

And so the story goes...

Does anyone know where I can get the connector from? I saw a variable length one at some other hardware site, and I tried emailing the author, but still no dice. I am going through alot of runaround for something thats a novelty, but at this point I would like to see it to completion. Any help would be greatly appreciated guys
 
Thanks Guys,

I have spoked to Supermicro about this, and they said that since the motherboard wasnt SLI certified, that they didnt have to include it, and have no plans of making one. That really kind of sucks, and the overall unhelpfulness kinda makes me want to reconsider dropping 500 bucks on one of their products.

The only problem with that is that there isnt an alternative availible from any other manufacturer yet, and I really need to build this soon.

Mods, can you move this to the Motherboards section since it seems to be where this thread should belong.

Thanks
 
wixx said:
Thanks Guys,

I have spoked to Supermicro about this, and they said that since the motherboard wasnt SLI certified, that they didnt have to include it, and have no plans of making one. That really kind of sucks, and the overall unhelpfulness kinda makes me want to reconsider dropping 500 bucks on one of their products.

The only problem with that is that there isnt an alternative availible from any other manufacturer yet, and I really need to build this soon.

Mods, can you move this to the Motherboards section since it seems to be where this thread should belong.

Thanks
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No there isn't. But don't worry someone will come out with a connector yet. I've seen quite a few SLi systems built on Supermicro boards being demoed. Surely they had to come from somewhere. Of course all the units were demo units from video card companies. But still. Somewhere you've got to be able to get one.
 
Been a couple weeks since I've seen anything on this, so I was wondering if anyone has any new info about the availibility of just the SLi connector?
 
So far nothing. But a couple new boards have been released that have SLi support. So hopefully some generic connectors will start getting made.
 
Still checking on it...has anyone heard of anyone even announcing one?
 
Try emailing ASUS asking if you can buy one. It can be more than 10 dollars. Say you bought a motherboard from them and then lost that bridge peice. :)
 
From what evga told me , only companies certified as SLI partners will have the connector and if the mobo does not supply it , its not Nvidia Cough "taxed" cough and thus not certified
 
Its been a couple months, thought I would bump this. Do any of you guys know where I could find something like this?
 
I would do what a previous poster said and start emailing different board manufacturers that make SLI boards about selling you an SLI bridge.


Other than that your going to have to wait until somebody else makes one.
 
Even if you can get one of the other companies to sell you a SLI Bridge, who's to say the distance between the 2 will be the same? Asus's is different from MSI's(but I think the MSI, DFI, and Gigabyte are the same). Why not just move over to dual Opertons on the K8WE?
 
Actually I have my shipping confirmation on the K8WE and a pair of 246's from Monarch computer, but everywhere I am reading shows that it doesnt ship with the SLi connector.

I actually could use two, I have a supermicro that didnt ship with one either.
 
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