nVidia SLI question

[Sideswipe001]

Does anyone know for sure? Will the 6800/6800GT/6800U all support SLI, or is this something they are reserving for the top end cards only?

 

[Acanthus]

From what reviewers have said, ALL 6800s that have PCI-E will support it.

AGP versions of the cards will never support SLI.

 

[ViRGE]

The core will support SLI; it's up to Nvidia if they want to enable it though.

 

[Matthias99]

Also, the board needs to have the SLI connector. They certainly *implied* that all PCI-E 6800s will have SLI support, but it's really up to the board manufacturers to implement it, since NVIDIA doesn't make graphics cards.

 

[Acanthus]

But wait matthias!

This tool says NVIDIA makes all the cards and the OEMs just slap stickers on them.

 

[Matthias99]

Well, CLEARLY, if someone on teh intarw3b said it, it must be true!

It's quite possible that many of the 6800 cards *are* being produced in the same place -- this is nothing new (for instance, Sapphire produces, or at least used to produce, most of the "Built By ATI" R300 cards.) However, I haven't seen anything to indicate that *NVIDIA* is actually producing them (as opposed to a third party manufacturer), or that they are actually all built with identical hardware.

 

[Ryoga]

SLI is "teh ub3r-l33t" so you can bet that support will be advertised right on the box.

Worst case scenario: ask people here what make/model of boards support it.