SLI bridge for NVIDIA CARDS

Depends on the motherboard i would suggest measuring the distance between the cards, also setting the cards right on each other is a bad idea due to the fact the top card wont get as much air even though it is watercooled

you motherboard should of came with its proper sli bridge in the box ?? all mine did/do ...

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

look at it like morse code 1long 2 short means ???

you need to check with the boards manufacture and your board to see if there are any changes they made to the beep code on that board over standard as well ?

good luck

like said above measure it the go to evga and see if it matches there short or long ??

thing is did evga add a extra finger to the cards sli slot thing that activates the led ?? see the thing is at evga they only endorse it form there cards not other brands ??

http://www.evga.com/articles/00919/EVGA-Pro-SLI-Bridges-V2/

I think this is part of the reason why there older 970 cards don't sli with there newer 970 cards ??? I don't see anybody saying there using them on say a MSI card ??
The manufacturer commented on the review below


3.0 out of 5 stars
Check EVGA for compatibility before buying
ByFraxTechon January 10, 2016

Style: 2-Way SLI Bridge (Long)Verified Purchase

Check EVGA's website and make sure your GPUs will work with the LEDs, mine do not (even thought hey are EVGA GTX970s). While trouble shooting the problem, I found on EVGA's website that only certain EVGA GPUs will power the LEDs. I still kept it, it still looks good, but would look a lot better if the LEDs worked.

thing is you better find out if they will light up on a msi or any non evga branded card first ?? zas shows not even with all evga cards as well ??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814999039&cm_re=sli_bridge-_-14-999-039-_-Product

may be a better bet to work if they fit your boards slot spacing ??

ya I guess that's all changed but I think its mostly with the 970 there junk [opinion]

''Furthermore, as we mentioned in our GTX 980 review, GTX 970 has been a pure virtual (no reference card) launch, which means all of NVIDIA’s partners are launching their custom cards right out of the gate. A lot of these have been recycled or otherwise only slightly modified GTX 700/600 series ''Meanwhile since NVIDIA did not produce reference cards, for GTX 970 reviewers are being sampled directly by NVIDIA’s partners''

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8568/the-geforce-gtx-970-review-feat-evga

hard to read stuff like that and invest in a 970 from any brand ? then all the rest of the issues that surrounded them as well ? [3.5 memory-coil whine - ect...] i'll pass..

thing is with the rest of the 900 cards I guess there called good ? and true NVidia design's ?

by the way I feel that seahawk looks to be a nice card I was looking at the evga hybrid myself just cant seem to pull the trigger [evga over msi , I just feel better customer service after the sale ]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/70502-evga-gtx-980-ti-hybrid-review.html

I don't guess someone makes a universal led bridge ?? but then 900 cards can be ''funny''

I thought in at least the reviews the evga runs cooler ?? the clocks don't gain much 2 or 3 fps ?? and then with the NVidia dx 12 deal I don't know how future proof you really get ?? I'm sure pascal will have things covered better then that's yet to be seen ..

''the hybrid is not that good tbh''

hmmm... I guess that's why the evga out sells seahawks ?? then who stands behind the cooler ? will msi say its corsair part issue ?? its a split deal between them where evga is all covered under evga??

so if you were to go by reviews as sales amounts ??

so far just 9 reviews ??
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127911

80 reviews ? goes to show who got the following
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487144

then in some of the seahawks reviews they say how cheap it feel just like in the bench review [striped threads easy- Very plasticy [??] I guess he mean cheap plastic feel ??

so can you tell me how the hybrid is not so good ??

Remember, both the Hybrid and Sea Hawk are physically identical but EVGA’s solution relies upon a cooling solution that was designed for GPUs while MSI decided to repurpose an H55 CPU cooler for their competitor

looks like the Hybrid is able to remain nearly 10°C cooler than the Sea Hawk throughout the test.

Due to its lower frequencies, framerates aren’t quite up to the level of some of the competition but the difference is extremely minor and won’t be noticeable in-game

and seahawk cost more [ the evga hybrid has sols for as low as 689$ ]


in the end is all about personal preferences and what ''YOU'' feel is best for you

good luck and enjoy

if you say so , I guess that you buy off of hype ?? I guess you do have to defend your card buy ?? if I did not have any idea I would nor comment on it and its all been reviewed

heres witcher?? only 3 or 4 frames ?? big deal wow not worth any price premium the you sais mis has gotten better with there rma stuff ?? evga is know proven and you deal with evga not a outsourced company planted in the u.s from twain that could not care less [google msi rma and read all the good news ]



http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2128-msi-sea-hawk-gtx-980-ti-review-and-benchmark/Page-3

anyway good luck and enjoy

can you link something that shows it runs cooler ?? I the 2 reviews it runs hotter ??

''It looks like the Hybrid is able to remain nearly 10°C cooler than the Sea Hawk throughout the test. ''

that's what I see in2 of the reviews ?? what are you basing this on ??

also

''The cooler’s layout underneath the shroud departs quite drastically from MSI’s Sea Hawk. Whereas MSI has used Corsair’s ''CPU-centric H55 AIO'' (basically Asetek’s 550LC), EVGA has decided to utilize a version of the ''GPU-specific Asetek 740LC''

see cpu cooler used on msi and gpu cooler on evga ??.

to each his own all you can do now is kick back and enjoy ...

so what did you decide on for the sli bridges ?? I figure the msi ones are your best bet ??

where's the hybrid in any side by side ?

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/11/16/msi_geforce_gtx_980_ti_sea_hawk_video_card_review/5#.Vp7mwLfnaHs

cant go by nothing there ., looks like all msi hype sheets to me ??

your pretty critical to me for a guy who did not know about the bridges . why did you not read and be better in the know ?? then I guess that's why evga sells more/stronger sales cause msi card is better[???]

whats really sad is gigabytes hybrid with its AMD fury cooler on it but its clocked better then your seahawk so it also better then evga or msi ,right ?? so trade that msi in for it now [lol] get then extra 1 or 3 frames

[dam good rating ] but not seahawk in there side by side ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaSTljmsa74

good luck

dude evga had stock issues with the hybrid as well come off that you had to go to evga and get on a will call list to get one factory direct for a long time ..[cant do that with msi] thing is you don't know if there just out of stock or been pulled for some reason cause they were not out selling the evga card ?? like you show you buy on hype all you go on about is clocks and fps ?? all you show is reviews of the card with out a side by side then in them it not so great as you claim now is it ??

yup, and that's why the hybrid out sells and the go to card ?? like I said if user reviews reflect sales like at amazon or newegg the cards been out for the near same amount of time in that time frame evga card has 80 at newegg -- seahawk has 9 ?? and at amazon it like only 11 ??

maybe that's what you need to do is spew all you say on a review at amazon and newegg to bolster your great card ?? you call m a fan boy look at all you spewed out defending msi 's card you bought ?

I mean theres nothing wrong overall with your msi card I'm sure it does fine ,but.......

all that matters is the fact that ''YOUR'' happy with it in the end ...

by the way I'mno fanboy of any brand of my builds as far as cards goes I got a powercolor - msi- and evga- sapphire - asus , they all got there good and bad points but all I ask is they work as I expect them to for what they are .. that is all

''Gamernexus again '' no not just them but with a side by side results listed as well [not so great then is it ? ]

''Despite its awesome cooling design and more thermal overhead than most other GTX 980 Ti’s the Hybrid just doesn’t overclock any better than other custom designed cards. That’s no different from the Sea Hawk and like we said in that review, the blame for this limitation on some of the best custom cards around rests solely on the shoulders of NVIDIA.

''Not only has EVGA quickly reacted to the Sea Hawk’s presence by softening the Hybrid’s financial blow (it can be found for $729 now) and offering a free shroud upgrade but it also features lower temperatures and, in my opinion at least, slightly better build quality. Many will also appreciate the Hybrid’s true plug-and-play abilities given the Sea Hawk’s dependence on the motherboard’s input for fan speeds.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/70502-evga-gtx-980-ti-hybrid-review-17.html

see as well where they say better cooling then seahawk ?? what gives ?? by the way the hybrid can be got oday for 689$$ that makes it even better over your seahawk for 745

don't think if the msi seahawk was going at a better deal I would not go for it myself and would not hurt my feeling to run one and one good thing my come in handy down the road is if the cooler went out and msi screws you over on it you can just go to corsair and buy a replacement CPU cooler from there kit I guess
I'm done here ... enjoy