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zhi   09-24-2007 at 08:42:40 PM

k, got a quick question.
what will happens to the motherboard or video card, if the motherboard was set on SLI mode and you are only using a single video card?
Thanks

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spuddyt   09-24-2007 at 09:07:53 PM
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I doubt much happens though, I've never actually tried

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Hatman   09-24-2007 at 09:56:54 PM
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It uses 1gpu. Simple as. Ive never seen an option to set a MB to SLI mode though.

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Heyyou27   09-24-2007 at 10:12:56 PM
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zhi wrote :

k, got a quick question.
what will happens to the motherboard or video card, if the motherboard was set on SLI mode and you are only using a single video card?
Thanks

SLI has to be enabled in the drivers, and without two cards you couldn't do it. Even if you could "enable" it with only one card, it'd be exactly the same as running a single card.

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masteryoda34   09-24-2007 at 10:58:09 PM
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The old SLI boards had a physical bridge chip that you had to reverse in order to go from 16x1 to 8x2 for SLI. So if you did that your card would be running on 8x instead of 16x but even that probably wouldnt have made much difference.

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homerdog   09-24-2007 at 11:43:22 PM
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zhi wrote :

k, got a quick question.
what will happens to the motherboard or video card, if the motherboard was set on SLI mode and you are only using a single video card?
Thanks


:non:

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zhi   09-25-2007 at 12:05:28 AM
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great, thanks all for replying

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