Graphics SLI Question

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  1. eipuiz

    eipuiz What's a Dremel?

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    What would happen if someone tried to put two different brands of PCI-E cards together like an MSI and an Albatron would they work? what about a 6600 GT and an 6800 together? :jawdrop:
     
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    Highland3r Minimodder

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    Currently no, tho iirc Nvidia is working to allow 2 different brands to work together in SLI.
    Second question, answer is no :)
     
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  3. Dngrsone

    Dngrsone What's a Dremel?

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    Currently, you need identical cards to run in SLI.
     
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  4. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    you can run cards with different BIOS now AFAIK. They are working on running two different brands to run together in the furture too - I think that is slated for release 80.

    Second question... I can't answer that at the moment unfortunately.
     
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    alastor Minimodder

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    Is that the sound of an NDA shackled journo i hear? Or am i just being dumb...I've had a long day
     
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  6. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    :worried:
     
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    alastor Minimodder

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    From that, ( :D ) I'm guessing nvidia is working on being able to use different models with the same number of pixel pipelines in SLi with some sort of extra load balancing or a crossfire-like clockspeed cap? For example a 6800Ultra and a GT running at GT speed in SLi....anywhere near?
     
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