New to the forums and needing help.. good start

[Vengance]

Hi guys, sorry that my 1st post is asking for help.

I've recently built my new system, all lovely spec'd, i wont bore you with the complete list of parts unless you want me to. To cut the story short, i made a booboo, decided on the gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and a 7900. 1 week later the prices on the cards drop so ordered a 2nd, thinking to myself "ooh sli link, sweets". Ha ha on me...

So the next step is flashing the bios on my mobo to enable the x-fire, easily done and working. Followed by getting the sli drivers, also easily done.

Now for the bit i need help with... Where do i get an sli cable from to direct link the cards. It needs to be about 6cm's long. I've managed to find a few, but only from our cousins accross the sea (U.S.).

please please help me out ^^

 

[welshtom]

you dont need to link them up

 

[Naffa]

I'm pretty sure you'll experience hindered performance. AfaIk if you run two cards through that motherboard you get one card at 16x and one at 4x. Not 100% sure though.

 

[killer_uk]

I'm pretty sure you'll experience hindered performance. AfaIk if you run two cards through that motherboard you get one card at 16x and one at 4x. Not 100% sure though.

Yup, thats correct. Not sure on the performance loss though.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah thats right, ones 16x, the others 4x, and we can't help you on the SLi bridge as competitors are not allowed as per the FAQ im afraid.

Welcome to the forums btw.

 

[welshtom]

think the performance loss is around 10%, and as i said, you dont need to link them with an sli bridge

 

[Vengance]

thanks for the quick responses. One of my friends found one for me.. cost about 20quid, but it'll stop me wondering what i'm missing out on.. even if i dont need it XD

 

[Kmodo]

7900 what? gs gt gto gtx? the gtx (and gto same card) need an sli connector but I belive the others do not, or is it something to do with hacked drivers or the fact the mobo is not made for sli?

 

[welshtom]

yea, its the hacked drivers and the chipset config.

its doesnt hurt performance not having the sli bridge at all

 

[Vengance]

curse nvidia -.-

ok, everything was working fine till i installed the bridge... didnt see any performance increase. so thought i must have installed it wrong, turned off the system, re-installed it, turned the system back on, msg pops up saying "your system isnt correctly configured to use sli, and this feature is being disabled".
so.. i removed the bridge and sli doesnt come back on like it was before. removed the drivers, re-installed the drivers, i can enable sli, but once the system restarts the msg comes back up again and disables sli. any idea how i can get rid of this problem?

 

[Vengance]

scrap that... DC pro... all sorted now ^^