SLI question

[cHk4]

Well I am thinking about giving my brother my old card, but my card is different than his. They are both 7800 cards but his is a XFX and mine is a BFG, will this work? If so do I just plug it in the PCI and away we go? Or do I need to find the SLI thing that came with my card to connect them together at the top? Sorry a very novice question.

Thanks

 

[cHk4]

Damn Ok mate thanks

 

[cHk4]

Thanks mate, just dont want to blow my brothers PC up lol

 

[cHk4]

True, thanks a lot mate

 

[cHk4]

Ok didn't want to start a new thread, but last night I put my GTX 7800 in my brothers machine with his GTX 7800. Booted up Windows and it picked up another graphics card so installed it. The SLI bridge thing is on them both, however when I go to the nvidia control panel there is no options for SLI, I followed some instructions on going in to 3D performance and enable SLI will be in there but it was not. I also downloaded the latest nvidia drivers for the 7 series.

Thanks

 

[cHk4]

What mobo does he have?

His mobo is a SLI mother board, its only a 8bit PCI-E one though but does have two PCI-E slots and has the Asus SLI chip patent pending thing and the motherboard also comes with the SLI bridge. I did check the BIOS and the SLI was set to auto so I set it to SLI.

Thinking about it, I put in 4 gig of ram last night and he only has a 32 bit OS, do you think this could be causing the issue? Guess trial and error could try that tonight, but a bit confused as to why its not working

Thanks both though for you answers/question

 

[cHk4]

Of the top of my head its Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard

 

[cHk4]

Thanks all! I had the same mobo years ago and the north bridge failed after 6 weeks! lol.

Just changed the chip around like said, booted in to windows, installed drivers SLI working - how easy was that thanks so much all, my brother is really happy now