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I'm not very clued up on SLI, I know you can put 2 of the same cards in SLI but wasn't sure if I could put the normal GTX260 in SLI with the GTX260 216 Core?
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SLI noob question
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They may have locked it out in the drivers..
I had a pair of BFG 8800 GTS a few months back and decided to SLI them to give them some last legs. One was 640mb, one 320mb. The drivers locked it out, but there was a hack I managed to find that made it work. It used to work in old drivers, but Nvidia decided that people shouldn't be using old cards like that any more so coded them out. They wanted people to go off and buy new cards.
Even Crysis 2 would come up and give me a warning to say my cards weren't supported, but they ran it fine on medium to high settings in DX9
I had a pair of BFG 8800 GTS a few months back and decided to SLI them to give them some last legs. One was 640mb, one 320mb. The drivers locked it out, but there was a hack I managed to find that made it work. It used to work in old drivers, but Nvidia decided that people shouldn't be using old cards like that any more so coded them out. They wanted people to go off and buy new cards.
Even Crysis 2 would come up and give me a warning to say my cards weren't supported, but they ran it fine on medium to high settings in DX9
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Cheers ALXAndy. Anybody else had experience with different cards?
In honesty mate I wouldn't bother. The 260 is, at best, a warm card. It also suffers with a hideous lack of Vram, so you won't really see much benefit from the speed boost in anything worth playing these days..
Plus, Fallout 3 hates SLI with a passion lol. It's one of the few games that refuse to play ball with my quad SLI no matter what
(And I've put 700+ hours into Fallout 3 alone).
Plus, Fallout 3 hates SLI with a passion lol. It's one of the few games that refuse to play ball with my quad SLI no matter what
(And I've put 700+ hours into Fallout 3 alone).
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What if I used one for Physx acceleration and one for graphics. Would that be better?
it can be done, but physx is a useless technoilogy bar from in a few games
^ +1 XP, you have recieved good karma.
The heat will drive you insane mate. That and the noise. The fans will need to be driven super hard to keep temps in check and things get very hot in SLI.
About all I can stand on my three monitor quad SLI setup is about an hour. By that time I can feel the sweat running down my sides.
By all means have a play man
get a bit of experience under your belt and have a smile over the synthetic benchmark results, but living with SLI IMO isn't something you would want to do on a day to day trusted desktop.It should work - I'm sure I read it was OK when I was looking to SLI my card. I ended up running two 260 216 cores in sli, one was the original 65nm and the other a 55nm overclocked version. All that happened is they both ran at the same speed as the stock 65nm card. Served me well until earlier this year when I couldn't max games out anymore and I just had to go for a 6990 Yes it is noisy as ALXAndy said - I always play with headphones so not an issue for me.
Yes it is noisy as ALXAndy said - I always play with headphones so not an issue for me.