sli bridge, needed?

[JonJ678]

I'm moving from one 8800gt to two in the near future, and can't find an sli bridge. Does this matter?

 

[kingy666]

If you buy a 8800gt won't you get a sli bridge with the new card?

 

[BigBruiserAl]

yes mate you need the bridge to SLI or the pc will just see it as phisx card. Should be plenty of sli bridges on the bay?

 

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

Yes, you'll need a bridge. try an auction site. Maybe some kind fellow from here will send you one...

 

[Rroff]

SLI will usually run in bridgless mode... fine - tho you will see a performance drop of between 5 and 20% depending on the setup compared to the same setup with an SLI bridge - although from my experience most of the performance loss is only noticeable as a slight increase in load times and/or at very high resolution/settings.

If you have an SLI capable motherboard they usually come with the bridge - stating the obvious but don't assume the board supports SLI because it has 2x PCI-e slots.

 

[ConTRo13R]

You only get SLI bridges with nforce motherboards

email me your address in trust, il send you one

 

[ReeVo.uK]

That's nice ^ ^

 

[Arcane]

I've got one of the rigid ones that came with one of my (many) evga 680 boards if that's any good to you, still sealed.

 

[setter]

May be worth checking the spacing of the two cards as the sli bridges come in different lengths, i have 2 rigid ones here, one from evga and one from asus, the evga one is about 3/4's of an inch longer than the asus one. May also have some of the flexible ones left over from oher sli boards.

 

[JonJ678]

Unwisely forgot about this thead, thanks for the offer ConTRo13R. It was very kind of you.

It seems the bridge is important, but after much digging around I managed to find one so all was well. Apologies for failing to reply.