9800 gt and 9600 gso in sli???

[thaifood]

Hey,
been out of the hardware reading for a while,
I was wondering if i could use these two cards together running sli and using the 9600 as the phyx card?? I know you need to use the same chips, are they the same chips but the 9600 just a tuned down version.. any help would be great
regards,
Thaifood

 

[rolli59]

There are more than one version of the 9600GSO out there. All of them are crippled cores one way or the other which makes them unsuited to SLI with 9800GT.

 

[shadow187]

nVidia has given each of their cards a certain number, and if those two numbers aren't right, then one can't SLI the cards.

 

[jyjjy]

When you use one of the cards as a dedicated physx card they do not need to match. If that is what you are asking then yes, you can use the 9600GSO as a physx card to go along with the 9600GT as your main card. For normal SLI it may be possible if your 9600GSO is of the 48 stream processor variety but I wouldn't recommend it even if that is the case.

 

[thaifood]

ah i wasnt trying the run it as SLI but to use the 9600 as a physx card...