SLI Question

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:55 pm

How does the SLI work on these new mobos? I would assume it is like the old days and two video cards capable of SLI would have to be used? or can you SLI any PCIe cards?

Also, DDR2....AMD using this yet? I cant find any mobos which specify DDR2....or will DDR2 work in a DDR?

Im thinking about going 64 and just getting up to date.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 9:56 pm

AMD has said it will not use DDR2

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:50 am

yep, two sli capable cards are required - the current mobos split the bandwidth on the sli channel, but the next gen has 2x32 slots - review at AT yesterday, I think

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:51 am

you need to use video cards that have SLI built into the drivers...it is theoretically possible to use different makes/models, but the drivers would have to be coded to utilize SLI for each.

i haven't looked into it that much, but i thought NVIDIA is the only one with SLI now. ??

not sure if there are any hardware differences w/ SLI cards...someone else here knows i am sure.

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