Tri SLI

[beardyweirdy]

Hi
A couple of questions: Has anyone tried this and what are the heat implications when the cards are so close?
I was thinking of sticking my mates card in just for benchmarking. He has the EVGA version of my Pailt 1 gb card and his cloCk speed is 640 whereas mine is 700, will they be compatible?

Last question; My Seasonic 900w PSU supports quad SLI but all the 6 pin connections (i.e. 4) are used- how would another card connect

Cheers
BW

 

[Surveyor]

Do you actually mean Tri SLI - 3 cards?

You talk as if you have a single Palit card and your mate a single EVGA card.

Which graphics card is this? They can't all be used in Tri SLI.

Which motherboard do you have? They aren't all compatible with Tri SLI or SLI at all.

For the power you would have to use molex adapters.

In SLI the cards run at the speed of the slowest.

 

[beardyweirdy]

Hi
I have ASUS Rampage Extreme 2, running 2 GTX460s. The cards are the 1gig sonic version which have slighly higher clock speed of 700mhz; the EVGA card is the gtx460 SE 1gb, which I think has a clock speed of 640 or something.
I was wondering about compatibility of the cards and the heat issues.

 

[Surveyor]

Sorry, it's only possible to run 2 GTX 460's in SLI so everything else is moot.

 

[beardyweirdy]

How come you can't run three - sorry for my ignorance. Which cards are capable?

 

[rounddodger]

they don't have they required extra connector, you need either 470's or 480's, not sure on 5 series.

 

[Surveyor]

A 460 only has 1 SLI "finger" on the card.

Cards like the 470, 480, 570 and 580 have 2 "fingers" and can be used in Tri SLI.