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7800 GT in SLI
Need some help...
__________________A friend of mine gave me an old graphics card of his, an Evga 7800 GT. (I'm new to PC gaming, so I didn't want to go out and drop $$$ on a card that I might not actually use.) Anyways, I was thinking about picking up a 2nd 7800 GT on ebay to run SLI on my Asus M3N-72D motherboard, but I just noticed in the manual that when in SLI mode the board drops the PCI slots down to 8X, from 16X. How will this affect the performance of the 2 video cards, if I pick-up another? Should I even bother getting a 2nd one?
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03-18-09
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no worries, there's more than enough bandwidth for videocard even when the PCI-Express slot is @ x8. You have a newer board as well so that PCI-Express slot is 2.0, which is x32, and is turning a x16... so your good to go.
on a side note, your better off going with a faster single card than 7800GT SLI, tons of faster solutions out there. If you wanna help out your friend, don't pay more than $20-$30 for your friend's videocard, but don't SLI cuz its worthless @ this point. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102805 something like this will outperform the 2 cards in SLI, use less power, make less heat and you won't have to hassle with 2 videocards as well.
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03-25-09
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Whend they fix the dual monitors over SLI thing?!
__________________I bet a second 8800 GTS 512 would be more cost-effective than buying a newer graphics card..
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03-26-09
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03-26-09
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Guess its time to start scouring ebay and that for a 8800GTS and finally use SLI
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04-02-09
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Could an 8800GT and 9800GT be put in sli? From what i know theyre pretty much the same card.
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Not unless you either flash the 8800GT to a 9800GT or the other way around.
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04-09-09
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The only thing missing from the first post is what the advantage of SLI is....
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 3.0/ Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit / EVGA 780 i FTW/ 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB Video Card - running SLI Mode / RAM - 8GB G.SKILL (PC2 8500) 5-5-5-15, @ 1066mhz
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Two more concerns:
__________________Many (mid to high end?) nvidia cards have two connectors for SLI. And assuming you only doing 2 way SLI is it neccessary or is there any benefit to connect both connectors on both cards using 2 SLI bridges or is 1 bridge enough? Is there a diff between crossfire bridging and SLI bridging in terms of specific link cable hardware?
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04-25-09
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i have a cheap 8400gs in my linux box and its NOT SLI compatible has NO connector for an SLI bridge
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Computers are like air conditioners - They can't do their job properly if you open windows.  ATI cards are like London busses, they're big, red and have bad drivers!
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Good overall though!
