question about triple SLI

[mentalcrisis00]

Hey all

I've been looking at triple sli out of curiosity. I'm wondering if cards with 2 sli bridge headers on there board are capable of triple sli? Or if cards with only 1 bridge header are also capable of running in triple sli? I looked at the EVGA 780i motherboard and it looks like it comes with 2 types of sli bridges, they both the same length but one looks to be made for single connector cards and the other made for dual connectors.

Pictures of EVGA 780i accessories

It's just a bit confusing because none of the boards i've looked at including the new 200 series state they're triple sli compatible, they just seem to say "SLI - Certified"

Any info on this to clear things up for me would be appreciated.

-Ray

 

[Keysplayr]

Tri SLI capable cards:

8800GTX
9800GTX
9800GTX+
GTX260 (192 or 216 shader)
GTX280

Yes, two SLI bridge headers per card are required for Tri SLI.

The connectors that came with that mobo are for standard SLI and Tri SLI.
The smaller of the two has a connector on each end. The larger one has two on each end, and two in the center for the third card.

 

[FalseChristian]

You need Vista for Tri/Quad SLI and you need 3 cards from the 8800GTX and up to the GTX 280.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

ah ok this makes it clear, i kinda figured the small bridge only had 2 connectors but wasn't sure. You'd think nvidia would make their xp drivers capable of tri sli but I suppose everyone wants to make the push to vista.

Thanks for clarifying for me

 

[faxon]

Originally posted by: mentalcrisis00
ah ok this makes it clear, i kinda figured the small bridge only had 2 connectors but wasn't sure. You'd think nvidia would make their xp drivers capable of tri sli but I suppose everyone wants to make the push to vista.

Thanks for clarifying for me

wouldnt matter if they did make an XP driver for it, with 3 video cards packing that much memory, you wouldnt have any address space left for the system ram rofl.