SLI Bridge Available in Retail: Turn Your nForce4 Ultra into nForce4 SLI

jmke · 17th March 2005, 22:13

This week some Japanese hardware stores started offering the SLI bridge card, which is shipped together with Gigabyte’s or Leadtek’s graphics cards as well as with all the SLI supporting mainboards based on nForce4 SLI available in the today’s market. Why could anyone be willing to buy a separate SLI bridge card at all?

If you have been reading our News attentively, you probably know that some nForce4 Ultra based mainboards are equipped with either two full-size PCI Express x16 slots or with one full-size PCI Express x16 slot and one PCI Express x4 slot , which allows installing a second graphics card. None of the mainboard makers however is brave enough to announce officially that their solutions really support SLI. As you know, NVIDIA is doing its best to prevent the “unauthorized” modification of the nForce4 Ultra based mainboards into nForce4 SLI based ones.

more @ http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...314182648.html

17th March 2005, 22:13	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	SLI Bridge Available in Retail: Turn Your nForce4 Ultra into nForce4 SLI This week some Japanese hardware stores started offering the SLI bridge card, which is shipped together with Gigabyte’s or Leadtek’s graphics cards as well as with all the SLI supporting mainboards based on nForce4 SLI available in the today’s market. Why could anyone be willing to buy a separate SLI bridge card at all? If you have been reading our News attentively, you probably know that some nForce4 Ultra based mainboards are equipped with either two full-size PCI Express x16 slots or with one full-size PCI Express x16 slot and one PCI Express x4 slot , which allows installing a second graphics card. None of the mainboard makers however is brave enough to announce officially that their solutions really support SLI. As you know, NVIDIA is doing its best to prevent the “unauthorized” modification of the nForce4 Ultra based mainboards into nForce4 SLI based ones. more @ http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...314182648.html __________________

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