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B-Unit   06-24-2008 at 05:27:53 PM

A quick question regarding setting up an SLI. On an exsisting system, Is it as simple as popping the second card in, attaching the bridge, and turning SLi on in the driver, or is there something special I need to do?

Ive got a second 8800GT coming in this afternoon and Im hoping to be enjoying Crysis with good frame rates ASAP.

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strangestranger   06-24-2008 at 05:33:52 PM
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should be that simple, even with my ancient crossfire system you can do it on the fly with the system running just by how i connect them up to my monitor. so should be the case of just shoving it and connecting the power.

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maximiza   06-24-2008 at 05:40:17 PM
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yeap, might have to change apeture setting in bios if needed.

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   06-24-2008 at 09:03:23 PM
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B-Unit wrote :

A quick question regarding setting up an SLI. On an exsisting system, Is it as simple as popping the second card in, attaching the bridge, and turning SLi on in the driver, or is there something special I need to do?

Ive got a second 8800GT coming in this afternoon and Im hoping to be enjoying Crysis with good frame rates ASAP.


You may have to un install and then re install the driver but other than that it should be a doddle.

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1971Rhino   06-24-2008 at 09:27:57 PM
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When I installed my second card all I did was.....

1. Shut it down
2. Open it up
3. Insert the card
4. Connect the bridge and power cable
5. Boot it up
6. Go into nVidia's control panel and enable SLI
7. Wait for the screen flash, and approve settings
8. Button up the case
9. Game!

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deuce271   06-24-2008 at 09:31:06 PM
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I've seen a guy do it in 3 steps once, you're 9 steps are weak. You can replace 2 or 3 of them with a hammer imo...

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