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Maniacal   12-30-2008 at 03:54:31 PM

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!

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mactronix   12-30-2008 at 04:23:22 PM
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What Motherboard is it ?
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Maniacal   12-30-2008 at 05:57:43 PM
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an ASRock AOD790GX/128M

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boop334   12-30-2008 at 06:05:03 PM
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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

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boop334   12-30-2008 at 06:06:34 PM
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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

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Maniacal   01-01-2009 at 11:55:52 AM
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thanks alot bro

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Maniacal   01-01-2009 at 12:05:17 PM
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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

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   01-01-2009 at 04:18:20 PM
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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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mactronix   01-01-2009 at 05:59:08 PM
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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. ?

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   01-01-2009 at 06:10:30 PM
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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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mactronix   01-01-2009 at 06:27:34 PM
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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 :)

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   01-01-2009 at 06:38:00 PM
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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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mactronix   01-01-2009 at 06:59:38 PM
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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.

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   01-01-2009 at 07:17:38 PM
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Could well be, maybe some others could help to confirm this?

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