sli clearance

[moonboy403]

i know many people wanna know this

so i just wanna let you guys know my result

as you can all see from my rig, i use the dfi ultra modded to sli

i put the zalman on the top card and the nv silencer on the bottom

if you screw them on regularly, you wouldn't be able to fit the two coolers since the nuts on the nv silencer would be in the way of the zalman cooler

but if you just let loose the 2nd card (screwing it on while slightly separating it from the top card), you would just fit both coolers

another problem i encountered was the audigy card that was in the way of the humongous silencer, i had to use a cap of a pen to prevent the fan of the silencer to hit my audigy

while you would bent the audigy a little, it doesn't really matter cause in the end, it all fits!!!

good luck to you all sli people!

 

[moonboy403]

by the way...antec neopower is only good enough for stock action for a pair of gt

ocing the cards is a big NO NO!!!

instant hang during 3d application

 

[fbrdphreak]

Good to know, thanks.

I've got a Neopower 550, hopefully it'll handle another GT OC'd later

 

[moonboy403]

and just to let you guys know another thing...i just went to fry's and got a enermax 600w sli ready psu

apparently, my dfi board wouldn't boot up cause the enermax psu wasn't natively 24 pin or something

idk....the "24 pin" of the enermax was put together from a 20 pin and a 4 pin connector

so i'm off to return it soooooooon

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: moonboy403
and just to let you guys know another thing...i just went to fry's and got a enermax 600w sli ready psu

apparently, my dfi board wouldn't boot up cause the enermax psu wasn't natively 24 pin or something

idk....the "24 pin" of the enermax was put together from a 20 pin and a 4 pin connector

so i'm off to return it soooooooon

???
Do you mean that the Enermax had a 4-pin connector that slipped in next to the 20-pin connector? If that's the case than that's how it's supposed to be. It's so you can use your PSU on an older 20-pin motherboard if you so choose. My OCZ Powerstream looks like that.

Did you plug the extra 4-pin 12V connector (not the 4-pin connector that is part of the 24-pin configuration) into the motherboard? Did you plug the two extra power connectors into the motherboard also? Total your motherboard should have a 24-pin connector (sometimes made up of a 20-pin and a 4-pin connector hooked together), a 4-pin square style 12V connector, a 4-pin regular molex connector, and a 4-pin floppy style molex connector.

You probably know all that but I figured I'd mention it before you returned a perfectly good PSU. I can't imagine it could get SLI certified if it wasn't native 24-pin since all SLI boards are PCI-E.

 

[AthlonAlien]

moonboy,

That's nice to know, I am considering going SLI also. Do you have any pics...?

-Thanks

 

[SPARTAN VI]

Originally posted by: moonboy403
by the way...antec neopower is only good enough for stock action for a pair of gt

ocing the cards is a big NO NO!!!

instant hang during 3d application

Ehh? I have a Neopower 480w, too. Only time my cards weren't receiving enough power was when I had a molex connected to a fan, connected to a y-splitter, connected to the card (power dissipated before it reached the card, I guess). Plugged the y-splitter directly into the molex and problem solved.

As for OC'ing, I guess 480/1.3 isn't heavy enough to stress the PSU.

 

[moonboy403]

i tried everything with the enermax psu, no luck

the leds on the motherboard are on but it wouldn't power up (maybe a bad psu?)
goin back to my neopower worked just fine

as for not having enough juice
i even have to disconnect my two optical drives inorder to play games without problem

i used some online calc of the wattage that my system uses
and it came out to be like over 500w
idk

and i don't have a digital camera, so no pic
but my system sure looks ugly
i'm running it with the case open and a 120mm fan in front of my 2 7800 to dissipate heat faster

 

[aatf510]

Are you sure about that?
I have a Neopower 480 and had SLI and it worked fine.

System details:
4400+ o/c to 2.64GHz @ 1.5v
SLI 7800GTs o/c to 486/1200
2GB OCZ ram
DFI nf4 SLI-DR
X-fi xtreme music
2 x raptors
300GB maxline III
plextor 712a
pioneer dvd-rom
3 x 120mm fans
CMstacker crossflow fan fan
CM Water pump
Neo lights

All the above ran with the neopower 480 with 311 watts max from the wall outlet measured with kill-a-watt (AT use it to measure power consumption in their reviews)

and I got the wattage while I was running 3dmark05 w/ 2 instances of Prime95