Nvidia Sli Question?

Can you use differnt makes from manufactures as long as they are the same cards

ie 2 7800gt's one from evga and one from xfx

I thought I read somewhere that new drivers would take advantage mixed card makers

thx
Briteball

You can, but it might not work all that well. Beyond that, it will probably tune to the lessor card, so that any extra features on the better card would be lost. Bigger question is why go SLI on 7800Gt's when a single 7900GT would probably be better and cheaper?

The short answer is i have a 7800gt already...the thing that sucks is i bought it like 2weeks before nvidia announced the 7900 series

that has happened every time i have bought a card the last 5 times it really sucks...

geforce 2ti500 they anounce the geforce 4

Geforce 4 4400 the 9700 and 9800 declaired GF4 killers

9800pro they announce the x800's

x850pro they annouce the x1800's

geforce 7800gt they annouce the 7900's

ok so it wasn't such a short answer but that sums it up with my luck

OK kool

will the drivers auto detect or will you have to manually set for best results??

again thanks for your speedy replies

I remember when the drivers were first released that they had to be exact (or at least the specs) as the drivers could no compensate for a card being able to render and push a single frame out faster than its' SLI counterpart.

If this has changed I was not aware of it, and since I read that from anandtech I just planned on buying 2 of one card if I ever went SLI.