SLI with different cards?

[dirtychinchilla]

Hi,

Just a quick, and very ignorant, question...can you run two different cards in SLI? I'm thinking about a GEFORE GTX 460 with a Gigabyte 460, which presumably are pretty much identical (different coolers I believe).

Just wanted to check before buying one...thanks in advance!

dirtychinchilla

 

[cmndr_andi]

Usually if you match the GPU then you are pretty much sorted for SLI.

However then GTX 460 is a bit trickier as there are two main versions (768MB and 1GB) which use slightly different GPUs which can't SLI with each other. There are also some 192bit memory versions floating about that also don't play nice with standard 256bit cards.

Therefore, may I ask wxactly what model number GTX 460 cards you are looking at? If you have access to any of the cards already then you can run GPU-Z to check the specs.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Thanks for the very swift reply, I'm glad I bothered to ask before purchasing!

The card I've got is this on, and the card I'm thinking about purchasing is this one...both 1GB RAM as far as I can tell.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Ah, yes well they both have 1GB VRAM and the same 256bit memory bus. So you should be fine to put them in SLI.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Ah well not to worry then! At least I checked

 

[cmndr_andi]

Haha- ninja edit

I somehow thought it was the 192bit EVGA card for a second, but clearly you did pick the right one.

 

[setter]

Id reccomend using the gigabyte card in the lower pcie slot, this way it wont be starved of airflow. Had two gigabytes like that on a second rig, had to ditch them due to very high temps due to the non reference coolers they used, this and very tight slot spacing on the motherboard.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Oh right, that's great! I shall take your advice too setter cheers