SLI/XFIRE Question

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Bit of a noobish question...I just built a computer for gaming and have everything up and running for awhile now. The only thing that has baffled me is my board came with an sli/xfire switch card and my mobo instruction manual only has instructions for hooking up crossfire, why did it come with an sli/xfire switch card i'm just completely lost on that. Any help is much appreciated!

Reply to Maniacal

What Motherboard is it ?
Mactronix

Reply to mactronix

an ASRock AOD790GX/128M

Reply to Maniacal

i looked at it on newegg and it looks to me that one side is for one card (x16) and the other side is for crossfire or sli (x8/x8) just find out where you put that in (it should be the same for both) and you should be good to go

Reply to boop334

oh it just goes in the slot on the mobo where it was in the pic, if you are going for crossfire or SLI just flip it over (for x8/x8) and if you are using a single card just leave it set to x16

Reply to boop334

thanks alot bro

Reply to Maniacal

while i think of it...know a good place to get an sli bridge...i've been looking all over newegg for it but can't find one and the mobo came with neither a crossfire or sli bridge

Reply to Maniacal

Contact ASRock, as they are the ones who would know the distance between tha PCI-e slots on your particular board as this does not seem to follow any standard hence why the bridge or bridges should be supplied with the mobo.

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Reply to Mousemonkey

As they say every day is a school day, Whats all this about distances being differant ? I was of the opinion that you either got the short connector SIL or Crossfire that connected cards in side by side slots, or the longer one that ran from slot 1 to slot 3 for boatrds that run the 16x16 option between slot 1 and slot 3. ?

mactronix

Reply to mactronix

I've had two AMD boards one msi and one abit both with the same layout but different length sli bridges.

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Reply to Mousemonkey

Thats news to me i usually get the Bridges supplied with the cards. I guess if the spacing is different then i makes sense for the board to come with the bridges but i have not heard of it before.
As i said every day's a school day

Mactronix

Reply to mactronix

I've never had a bridge supplied with any cards be it XFX, Asus, MSI or Pallit and the last card purchased was a 9600GT from Zotac and that never came with an SLI bridge either. Where are you getting your cards from?

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Reply to Mousemonkey

Could this be a SLI only issue ? My last 3/4 card have been ATI from HIS twice PowerColor once and one from Sapphire.
All came with Crossfire Connectors.

Mactronix

Reply to mactronix

Could well be, maybe some others could help to confirm this?

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