[Dizzymagoo]

Can you run 4-Way SLI with any cards on the x58 motherboard? Or do they have to be GTX 285's from EVGA?

 

[tK FuRY]

AFAIK, you can only use the 4-way 285s in 4-way SLI.

 

[Dizzymagoo]

Damn thats what I thought!

 

[Anth0789]

Yep only GTX 285's:
http://www.evga.com/articles/00501/

 

[ned99]

I noticed that the 4 way SLI cards need 3 6-pin power connectors each, what PSU comes with 12 6-pin connectors? Seems like overkill power-wise.

 

[brettjv]

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Originally Posted by ned99 I noticed that the 4 way SLI cards need 3 6-pin power connectors each, what PSU comes with 12 6-pin connectors? Seems like overkill power-wise.

For reals? That's ludicrous. If anything each card should need less power in a quad-sli config, not more. The standard power config for the 285 should have been totally adequate, it makes zero sense that it would not have been.

Anyways ... tri-SLI 285's is already overkill for anything out there ...

 

[Drackula2000]

And with those 285's it can only be done on the special 4-way SLI mobo. The extra power must be to power the chip that fools the drivers into thinking its 295's.

 

[XFreeRollerX]

The cards use 1 extra set of 6pins for extra power, totally optional, just like the 2nd 8pin EPS on the mobo, totally optional.