evga 8800gt x2 sli card help

[bubblebobble]

HI,
my first post guys,
ok i have these graphics cards on a j+w ip35 pro mobo with 4gb sli ram and a q6600.
question is this:
I purchased the additional graphics card so I could use a sli bridge to get better performance, does it matter my mobo has no apparant support for sli?
thanks

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Yes. SLi won't work without an SLi motherboard in the vast majority of cases, including yours.

On a side note, SLi-approved RAM is marketing pap. The RAM has nothing to do with SLi support or performance.

 

[Cupra]

On a side note, SLi-approved RAM is marketing pap. The RAM has nothing to do with SLi support or performance.

thats wrong

with epp mobo ram and gpu then you can get a lot faster pc by clicking the diffrent profiles my old ram was 1066 @ 5,5,5,15 but with epp the ram went 1066, 4,4,4,12 it upped the pci-e lane to 125mhz aswell so the gpu could be clocked more it then clcoked the cpu....but it is motherboard dependant (680/780)

ideal to someone needing a boost for no extra money and not knowing how to overclock

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I agree, but what does that have to do with SLi?

 

[RaiderX]

I agree, but what does that have to do with SLi?

it increases the bandwidth between the cards

 

[Rroff]

You can still do all of that manually... so SLI RAM is pretty much just marketing rubbish... and its not 100% foolproof either - more like 50% at best.

 

[bubblebobble]

sli

thanks for the advice,
I actually new deep down it wasnt compatible, guess i was clutching at straws.
Damn it, I only built it about 2 weeks ago.
OK, new mobo, any ideas or reccomendations as to which to buy please?
Also I would love to know how to overclock the system, I have done some basic OC, i.e. increase the cpufsb too 333mhz and increase the cpu voltage a little, i got 3ghz stable.
thanks

 

[bubblebobble]

ooops,
forgot to mention q6600, OCZ 4GB PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel DDR2, sythe ninja (copper heatsinks) looks real cool.