Sli ram

Are you talking about using SLI compliant RAM with 2 GPUs in SLI or just SLI RAM with one GPU, because either way, as far as I know, there arent really any significant advantages to using SLI compliant RAM over normal RAM. For the most part its just another sticker they can put on the box to catch attention and help raise sales, but is also going to make the RAM a little more expensive since they have to pay Nvidia for that qualification.
 
GSAV55 said:
Are you talking about using SLI compliant RAM with 2 GPUs in SLI or just SLI RAM with one GPU, because either way, as far as I know, there arent really any significant advantages to using SLI compliant RAM over normal RAM. For the most part its just another sticker they can put on the box to catch attention and help raise sales, but is also going to make the RAM a little more expensive since they have to pay Nvidia for that qualification.
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yeah using sli ram with one GPU was what i was asking
 
Then the SLI factor is completely irrelevent. SLI only refers to GPUs, it stands for Scalable Link Interface (i think, haha), and its something that Nvidia pretty much innovated. ATI has pretty much the same thing but its called Crossfire (I couldnt tell you who had it first). RAM doesnt use SLI. Using two sticks of RAM simultaneously has been around for a long time and does it automatically, as long as your board supports it (which every modern board that I know of does)
 
Yeah, the first one isnt anything special, just has a qualification from Nvidia (I have OCZ btw, and its been wokring great). The timings on the second are slightly slower, but the bus speed is faster. I dont know how that relates to real world performance though, and hopefully someone can come in here and tell you.
 
GSAV55 said:
Yeah, the first one isnt anything special, just has a qualification from Nvidia (I have OCZ btw, and its been wokring great). The timings on the second are slightly slower, but the bus speed is faster. I dont know how that relates to real world performance though, and hopefully someone can come in here and tell you.
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thanks for the help though
 
"sli ram" has nothing to do with combining the forces of multiple gfx cards. I think the memory faq has something about it.
 
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