Non SLi to SLi?

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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I guess this would go under mobo's... I read of some people converting non SLI motherboards to SLI... How exactly is this done? I know the chipset must support SLI, then I read people used the cards in the slower PCIe slots. They just needed to possibly convert the slot and have a bridge. So how does this work exactly? What's the performace like when compared to a standard SLI board? Are there any guides? I have no plans to try this, but it just sounds interesting and would like to see some stuff about it :rolleyes:
 
Heya

I have seen a Ultra-D from DFI turned into a fully functional SLI board. It involved connecting a bridge on the Nforce4 Ultra chipset which made it an SLI chipset. Have a search for that. Remember that the SLI connector connecting the two cards is not needed in order to have SLI work. The Ultra-D does have 2 PCI-Express x16 slots ...

Search the forums... I have already posted a link to the guide.

JAN :D
 
geoff5093 said:
Are you saying that they found a way to get a video card in a PCI-E x1 or x4 slot?
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I've not read if it was posted in the links provided, but I heard it was possible... Or that someone heard it was possible :rolleyes: Back in the day, you could use most 16bit ISA VGA cards in 8bit ISA slots ;)
 
Yes it's doable, but of course, forking out extra several hundred bucks for a new videocard when a few months down the road, that samr amount of money could have got you a videocard that outdoes your SLI.... not to mention, down the road your CPU will be more of a bottleneck ... and to upgrade that would mean a different mobo in most cases...
 
I totally agree with you there. I don't care to do SLI, but I read something about this when trying to research some motherboards and just found it interesting.
 
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