SLI

[CrimsonTears]

Sorry to make a new topic, but I don't have much time on the pc anymore to search for stuff in forums. I am building a new computer, I don't really have the money for SLI anymore. If the motherboard is SLI ready and the case has enough power can I just buy another 8800 GTX? Like when I can afford it, or is it a pain in the ass and just save the money to get it all at once. It will be watercooled if that is something else you need to know, but everything will be sli ready.

 

[DrFreeze]

yeah, if you have an SLI mobo and the PSU can take it, then going SLI is as simple as just switching the mobo to SLI mode (if not done already), putting in the second card, connecting the SLI bridge and rebooting. Once in windows the drivers should detect SLI capability and give you a small notification, so you can engage SLI mode

easy as 3.1415....

 

[Sr7]

yeah, if you have an SLI mobo and the PSU can take it, then going SLI is as simple as just switching the mobo to SLI mode (if not done already), putting in the second card, connecting the SLI bridge and rebooting. Once in windows the drivers should detect SLI capability and give you a small notification, so you can engage SLI mode

easy as 3.1415....

Actually you may not even have to do that much.... you only need to flip the mobo to SLI mode if it is splitting a 16 lane configuration into an 8x-8x configuration. If you get any new SLI motherboard (i.e. 680i based) you have 3 independant 16 lane PCIE slots which don't require any flipping of anything to run in SLI.

Sometimes you need to reinstall the driver to get the system to associate the currently installed driver with the "new hardware" that windows detects... but there's no reason you can't just buy what you can afford now and go SLI later. Ton's of people do it

 

[DrFreeze]

If you get any new SLI motherboard (i.e. 680i based)
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nitpicking, i know, but 650i is pretty new as well

but yeah, 680i and the various wierdo multi chipset 32+ lane boards wont even require the SLI flip

 

[CrimsonTears]

Awesome, yes it will be a 680i board. Thanks for the quick responses, I'm going crazy without a PC ( dell laptop died, guess the 1710 has some bad heating issues that killed the whole thing )