Hello, I have a lot of experience with computers, both building, and every aspect of using. I have been doing this as a side job for many years. I am getting ready to do a major upgrade on my rig, it has not been updated for a while; and I've found the parts I want. They are ordered, and they are what they are, so let's not turn this into "So and so makes a better card" or "I would've gotten such model instead". That's useless here, and frankly that's not the point of thiis thread. I'm not asking what someone else would have gotten, and I really don't have any interest in that. Anywho, my actual question is regarding SLi setups. My new rig has SLi capabilities with dual 16x PCI-E Slots, at true dual 16x. I know this is somewhat unusual, but I've made sure of it. I am currently ordering dual Geforce 7300GTs to run in an SLi setup, and I have confirmed SLi on the motherboard, as well as the cards, and I even got a nicer power supply that is SLi certified through NVidia. I was hoping for some information on how to set up SLi, how it works, etc. Any assistance is appreciated. My new rig: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1gb PC3200 ram Dual BFG 7300GT w/256mb ram each 500w coolmax SLi certified PSU
look through this guide. they have a build with to 7800gtx's and go thru all the steps of making the whole comp. link: http://sysbuild.corsairmemory.com/report.aspx?id=2 to run sli, you need an sli bridge, which usually comes with the motherboard ( if you got an asus sli mobo). if you dont have it, you're gunna need it. also, go to properties, setting advanced, 7300gt, and check off enable SLI multi GPU. i got all of this info from the guide ( i actually read every page). most of the info you need is on page 11 and 16.
Well, it's appreciated here too, I hate being the one asking, lol. I kept reading all this stuff about jumpers and extra cables needed to conifugre the SLi settings. It was sounding like a nightmare, but this doesn't sound nearly as bad. I just want to make sure I create a DVD ghost image of the PC, once I get it all built, and operating correctly. It should be very nice. Again, thank you so much, maybe I'll get to help you in the future and return the favor.
yeah you prob will, as i plan on building a pc myself soon, so i will have many q's. glad you got your question sorted. EDIT: spelling
