Specificically how does SLI work?

Hardnuta · 6 Nov 2009 at 10:01

I am creating a presentation on how hardware has changed, and i was just thinking how does SLI work on a motherboard, what components does the motherboard need. Except the 2 or more PCI-E Slots.

Cheers,
The More in depth the better.

SfnX · 6 Nov 2009 at 10:05

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface

EsaT · 6 Nov 2009 at 10:36

Hardnuta said:
what components does the motherboard need

Really none.
If motherboard has enough fitting PCIe slots for the cards only thing needed is support for SLI in Nvidia drivers...
Which is what they have been limiting for retaining their cash cow.

Hardnuta · 6 Nov 2009 at 12:52

SfnX said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface

Duh, i always use wikipedia. i don't have a clue why i didn't this time. cheers for the link anyway.

reflux · 6 Nov 2009 at 12:54

If you're talking about how hardware has changed, you might want to mention 3dFX's multi-gpu implementation, confusingly also called SLi.

Hardnuta · 6 Nov 2009 at 12:59

reflux said:
If you're talking about how hardware has changed, you might want to mention 3dFX's multi-gpu implementation, confusingly also called SLi.

cheers, for the info
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i just read it at on wikipedia, looks like its quite important for the advances, so cheers for that.