Guru 3D SLI Users Guide (Part #2)

Hi, I have 2 questions:

Is possible do a SLI with a 8600 card and 9500 flashing the bios? (or another way)

Is possible do a SLI with 512Mb and 256Mb cards?

Sorry for my english and thanks.

 

bro just turn the fans 100% or go water cooling

 

Welcome to Guru3D, xkabrum.

GeForce 8600 GT
IC Codename: G84
Fab Process: 80nm
Shader Pipes: 32
Shader Clock: 1190MHz
ROPs: 8
Core Clock: 540MHz
Memory Bus Width: 128 bit
Memory Data Rate: 1400MHz

GeForce 9500 GT
IC Codename: G96
Fab Process: 65nm
Shader Pipes: 32
Shader Clock: 1400MHz
ROPs: 8
Core Clock: 550MHz
Memory Bus Width: 128 bit
Memory Data Rate: 1600MHz

No, you can't run them in SLI.

 

can I go with 2 gtx 285 and one gtx 295 in same sli and will that be better than 3x gtx 285.

 

Welcome to Guru3D, edin.

1) No, that wouldn't work.

2) GeForce GTX 280 SLI Dual | Triple review test: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-280-sli-triple-review-test/

 

Anyone have any Idea as to why in order to run 3Dmark Vantage all the way through I have to disable physx. If I dont It crashs on the last test 182.50 Drivers. Clean install vista ultimate x64.

 

If I want to buy another 260 GTX, that means I could buy anything from EVGA to whatever, just have to stay 260 gtx?

 

Yes as long as they are both the same
Gpu u can use different brands.

 

I have hd 2600xt ddr4 will be worth to get msi 8800gtx(cheap but second hand) and can that go with 400w psu(cpu 4400 dualcore)

 

Hi people,i really want to overclock my 9800 gt,but im not sure how hot cards get when overclocking. I do notice the card fan speed goes up by itself to 65% when i play fallout 3 on ultra high and the temp stays about 60-64c. When im not gaming its idles down to 40% and temp are 70-74c. I have four 120mm fans,2 blowing air in and 2 blowing air out(not including the psu). Dont know why my card is not cooler, 70c seems high when im not gaming. I also dont have any heat spreaders for my memory. Will i be ok for overclocking?

 

i have a problem and allways have with sli some times when i turn my pc on half of the screen is fuzzy the only way to get rid of this is to dissable sli and re enable it again then its perfectly clear

this dosent allways happen any one know of the cause or what might be causing the problem

also have had the same issue on 3 diforent mother boards and 2 difforent platforms

 

With the same cards?

Try updating them to the latest BIOS.

 

yup same cards both cards are same design but have diforent bios would this be the problem ?

 

Shouldn't, but you just never know. I'd get the latest BIOS you can find for your cards and flash both cards with it.

In case you've never done this before though, be careful and read a bit about it in advance. Especially what you can do in case a card is not responding/working after a flash.

Good luck.

 

ok well as my cards are no reference design im just going to copy the bios off of my newest card and load that one to the other one

 

SLI benchmark

New to the forum. I ran 3dmark06 in SLI, then with it disabled. Enabled scored 13349. Disabled scored 11564. All for my info.
SEAN

 

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see how i also have gts 512's in sli then i will comment. six months ago i would have said go for it, now i would say go for a 250 or 260. with that q6600 i wouldnt go any more than those two.
you should be able to find one cheaper than that if you went with another 8800. dont expect a huge performance increase. 20 to maybe 30% seems about average for my rig when i am playing a game that is sli compatible.

 

Your Corsair HX620W offers 50A on the +12V rails, PowerGI:

One 8800GTS 512 MB requires 26A and Nvidia recommends to get the TX750W for a system with two 8800GTS 512MB cards: http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

p.s.: Why did you erase your post? Did you already figure it out yourself?

 

I erased my post cuz I realized that the asus p5k supports only crossfire and not SLI. But thx for the replies!