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Mixed video card brands on SLI
Name: Trrippy Date: November 22, 2005 at 03:49:21 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: AMD 3800+ X2/2GB
Comment:
The nvidia "series 80" driver for SLI mainboards has been out for a while now, which allows two different brands of graphics cards having the same GPU chipset to be used together in SLI slots.
Has anyone tried this yet? Did it work? Anyone know if it will work with two cards with the same chipset, e.g., 6600GT, but one slightly overclocked out of the box?
Name: gleeb Date: November 26, 2005 at 12:10:31 Pacific
Reply:
They have to have the same GPU and probably the same VRAM (not sure on that one). Otherwise they just won't work. I believe nvidia only recomends you use two identical graphics cards as aposed to two different cards with the same gpU just to cover themselves.
I'm not speaking from experience though so my two pence could be worth absolutely nothing.
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