I have a couple of SLI questions.

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N3crosis

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1.(This one is sort of irrelevant to SLI but I'll ask anyways.) Are two 9800 GT's in SLI superior to 1 9800 GTX+?

2. Is it hard to enable SLI, or would my computer recognize it and set it up automatically?

3. How hard is it to get 2 (or more) monitors while running SLI?

4. If I overclock one card, will I have to overclock the other aswell?

Thanks for the help beforehand. Also any comments, or advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
1) Not completely sure but I would think so
2) It is not hard to enable sli you just need an sli bridge to connect the two cards in your computer case and you need to make sure you have enough power in your psu to power both cards
3) Not exactly sure what you mean but while in sli for gaming you can not use more than one monitor
4) While in sli the lowest card as far as settings such as core speed ect will be the weak point. Both cards will operate at the lowest cards settings.
Hope this helps
 
1) 2 9800GT's are superior to one 9800GTX+.
3) As of now, you cannot run dual monitors while in SLI but I think I've heard that NVidia is working on a driver release that will allow this. Sot sure when though, but as of now you can't. You can always run the two cards separately and hook up one monitor to each one. I'm pretty sure you would get the same results.

bigd54 got the other ones
 
Oh, sweet thanks for the replies. I only have one monitor at the moment, and I am considering SLI with only the one monitor but I was just wondering for future upgrades.
 
http://www.computerforum.com/134899-official-sli-cf-thread.html

bigd54 said:
3) Not exactly sure what you mean but while in sli for gaming you can not use more than one monitor
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kookooshortman55 said:
3) As of now, you cannot run dual monitors while in SLI but I think I've heard that NVidia is working on a driver release that will allow this. Sot sure when though, but as of now you can't. You can always run the two cards separately and hook up one monitor to each one. I'm pretty sure you would get the same results.
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Wrong, and wrong. You can run Dual Monitors with SLI, even while gaming, It's been around for a good while, I'm doing it.
 
Oh sorry man, I don't have SLI so I couldn't tell from experience. I was just off of what I've heard from before. Guess I should pay closer attention to the news
 
1. Yes any to card setup/solution is better than a single gpu solution....ie even 2 9600GT will be slightly better tahn one 9800GTX.
2. No not all games can take the full advantage of dual SLI but these are old games I'm talking about...but you can be sure that Forceware drivers will make the two card setup look and function as one....so go ahead.
3. As easy as saying SLI....nothing special...
4. Yes that will be the case....if you manually set one card to be stock and overclock the other...then the stock clocked will act as the bottle neck and the OCed card will have to slow down to keep in pace with the other.... hence better keep both at the same OC(by default that's the case)....to get the full kick outta both cards..

Hope that helps
 
About this 2 monitor thing i'm a little confused.

Most cards now have 2 outputs on a card, be it vga or dvi or a combination of the 2.

With 2 cards in NOT in SLI, could you have 4 monitors?

Or

With 2 cards in SLI, because they work as 1 to give more processing, more memory and, altogether, more power could you not run 2?
 
Kornowski said:
Wrong, and wrong. You can run Dual Monitors with SLI, even while gaming, It's been around for a good while, I'm doing it.
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Yes, looks like Ati had a real great idea for improving SLI there, eh? :P

1 yes, should be faster
2. no, its not hard, but it does depend on what motherboard you have. older motherboards had a SLI switch, wich you ahd to turn on when you wanted to use 2 cards in SLI. however, all new motherboards will detect it automatically, and you can just turn it on in the driver. :)
3. easy, you jsut connect the monitors to the top card, then you boot up your pc, and voilla, it should detect them automatically. if it doesnt dectect them, go to the grafic's card driver/program, and enable it there.
4. Yes, you would have to overclock both cards. SLI and Crossfire are simmilar when it comes to this as far as I know, they have to run at the same speed.
 
For the overclocking thing some video card manufacturers have a program for overclocking in system, it does both to the same automatically. Asus have "Smart Doctor" for example
 
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