Going from a single card to Sli, advice please.

[Ollie83]

Hi, I am going from a single gtx 295 on my Asus p6t, too Sli gtx 295. Now I know it mat not scale well etc but I just want to have some fun.

So right now I have a single gtx 295 in the top pci 16x slot of my Asus p6t and have the latest nvidia drivers and it works a treat. To add another do I just insert the second card in the lower pci 16x slot and attach the sli bridge and boot up?

Is there a seperate driver I will need to download to run what i suppose is quad sli? Any help would be great thanks.

 

[subbytna]

why another 295? It's old tech? Sell your current one and get either 1 or 2 new 460's

 

[Ollie83]

Thats not really the point here i'm afraid

 

[Mr. May]

Hi, I am going from a single gtx 295 on my Asus p6t, too Sli gtx 295. Now I know it mat not scale well etc but I just want to have some fun.

To add another do I just insert the second card in the lower pci 16x slot and attach the sli bridge and boot up?

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thats completly right dead easy to set up tbh

 

[chokedoke]

They really have made this an idiot proof system, the software picks up the Sli and gets up and running with very little user input.

 

[Ollie83]

Excellent guys, exactly what I wanted to hear! I can see my epeen growing already

 

[subbytna]

two 295's will have you cranking up the eye candy....just that it isn't able to get dx11

jealous of course...wish I had the cash too

 

[ilovebbs]

Don't get another 295 they are old tech.

But 1/2 GTX 470/480's. They will **** on it.

 

[Nocky24]

295s are still great cards. If you can get one on the cheap (granted it's old tech and not worth paying top dollar for) and sli them then it's a great setup.

DX11 is so ridiculously blown out of proportion at the moment it's a bit annoying. Just gone on wikipedia and only 6 games support it. So I wouldn't really base purchasing a brand new sli setup unless you really like those games. Some people do anyway, but that's upto them Personally I'd wait for the inevitably better next gen dx11 cards to come out for that. By that time there will be more dx11 games released and you'll be playing on much higher settings than these current first gen cards.

Sorry about the rant lol but that's my two pennies.

 

[Rroff]

Really seriously don't do it even for the laughs... the GTX295 in Quad SLI is a joke - it lacks the VRAM to bring the performance to the table in the scenarios where the scaling would take off and doesn't add much over a single GTX295 in most other scenarios - while sucking up approx. half a kW.

 

[Ollie83]

I only wanted to know how to go sli with these two cards not for peoples opinions of why I shouldn't. Since I still got the opinions, lol the reason I wanted to know is that my friend who loves gaming on my computer wants a gtx 295 after seeing mine in action. I have found another at a decent price and have bought it. Seems rude not to try it in sli for no other reason than I can! Hope that allays your fears that I wont be blown away by the performance increase versus £'s spent as I know full well it wont be an incredible increase!

 

[straxusii]

I only wanted to know how to go sli with these two cards not for peoples opinions of why I shouldn't. Since I still got the opinions, lol the reason I wanted to know is that my friend who loves gaming on my computer wants a gtx 295 after seeing mine in action. I have found another at a decent price and have bought it. Seems rude not to try it in sli for no other reason than I can! Hope that allays your fears that I wont be blown away by the performance increase versus £'s spent as I know full well it wont be an incredible increase!

You go for it mate, not many have the chance to try 4 at once

 

[sk3lph]

Hi Ollie,

I'd say 295's SLI'ed is well worth it, of course the fact I'm selling you the card is beside the point

You'll find it gives a nice boost, whilst not stratospheric, it still provides a noticable difference.

When you install the drivers, just remember to enable SLI as the default is for it to be switched off.

The other card I'm selling is still available if you want another for yourself.