SLI Bridge?

Gusev · 10 Aug 2006 at 08:41

Recently got a Gigabyte 965 DS4 and was thinking of getting a couple of graphics cards and using SLI on it, but looking through the motherboard box i couldn't see a SLI bridge in there. After talking to a few people I have gotten different information, some people saying it comes with the VGA card, other say it comes with the motherboard. Can anyone shed some light on this?

weemee118888 · 10 Aug 2006 at 09:31

The DS 4 isn't an SLI board.

Gusev · 10 Aug 2006 at 09:35

Why are there 2 PCI E x 16 slots on the board?

goreblast · 10 Aug 2006 at 10:17

So you can use multiple displays.

Phunky Phish · 10 Aug 2006 at 10:38

SLI bridge only comes with mobo's! Trust me, I just bought 2 7900GT's and they don't come with it!
You can buy SLI bridges off ebay mate.

Gusev · 10 Aug 2006 at 12:31

The only other concern I would have is that if the board is not a SLI board, why does the Nvidia software come up when I first boot the machine saying SLI has been disabled because one of the cards has been removed?

Jay_t · 10 Aug 2006 at 12:42

Gusev said:
The only other concern I would have is that if the board is not a SLI board, why does the Nvidia software come up when I first boot the machine saying SLI has been disabled because one of the cards has been removed?

Thats just a bug with Nvidia's drivers.

Gusev · 10 Aug 2006 at 13:28

Ahh k - I am almost tempted to get a Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express). How much of an improvement is the 1900 over the 1800?