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gotrice   02-03-2009 at 02:47:30 PM

Hey, I just bought the Asus Rampage II Extreme motherboard, and it comes with only 3 way sli bridge. So I was wondering can I use the 3 way sli bridge to do just sli with 2 cards and it will work or do i need to call asus to send me a sli bridge for just 2 cards? and also wouldn't 3 way sli bridge even if it works block my other pci slot?

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romulus47plus1   02-03-2009 at 03:10:45 PM
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Not quite sure about 3 way bridge working with 2 cards, but vendors often bundle a simple 2 way sli bridge with the GPU when you buy it. as for blocking other pci slot it would be the gpu not the bridge

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romulus47plus1   02-03-2009 at 03:12:03 PM
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oh, they're discussing it here too
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ridge-9800

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L1qu1d   02-03-2009 at 03:55:00 PM
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only 3way ready cards can use the 3 way bridge, it makes no difference if you use it or not.

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gotrice   02-03-2009 at 09:04:48 PM
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So, liquid your saying that I don't necessarily have to put the bridge in? Just put two cards in and then enable SLI in nvidia control planel? Also since I'm asking this I wanted to know can I use PCI-E slot one and then use PCI-E slot 3 instead of slot 1 and 2, since it will give more room for the air to flow.

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L1qu1d   02-03-2009 at 09:10:10 PM
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thats what I do. Usually The motherboard has pci 1 and 2 on the outside and the 3rd on the inside:)

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gotrice   02-03-2009 at 09:14:32 PM
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Then, I am guessing if I put one in pcie 1 and another in pcie 3 it would still give me x16/x16 on both and same performance if i were to use slot 1 and 2.

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