I'm thinking on buying a Graphic Card with SLi, but my motherboard doesn't have SLi. But it support PCI Express Card.
My motherboard is a MSI K8N NEO4-F
2007-05-04 19:43:27 · 6 answers · asked by HS Student 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
If you don't have two slots, how are you going to put 2 cards in there to run SLI?
2007-05-04 19:51:52 · answer #1 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A card that says SLI means you can use it as a single card or you could buy a pair for use in a SLI set up. So go ahead and buy that SLI capable card. It will work out fine. Now, when you upgrade to an SLI motherboard later, you can just buy an identical card to complete you SLI set up.
2007-05-05 00:12:31 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's the specification of your motherboard:
NVIDIA ® nForce4 Chipset
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64FX CPU
- HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)
- Supports PCI Express X16/X4/X1 interface
- Two independent SATA controllers, for four drives
- IEEE 802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T
- Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers
You may check the manual or even the box itself. If it has a logo of "SLI ready", then its okay.
Probably, you will put Nvidia Graphic cards not ATI Radeon. Because for ATI, they call it "ATI Crossfire".
2007-05-04 20:02:03 · answer #3 · answered by necrolyte 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SLI Technology actually requires you to have two PCI-EXpress slots running at 16x. So basically, motherboards that aren't SLI capable only has one PCI-Express slot, so that, it's impossible to do that.....
2007-05-04 22:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by venereal_madness 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can. SLI is just a technology that lets you combine your 2 nVIDIA graphic cads. It not related to slots for cards.
2007-05-04 21:04:47 · answer #5 · answered by K c 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your mother board needs to support SLI
check your manual, or goto MSI website and aske the geeks there
2007-05-04 19:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋