Ok, soo my cousin helped me build my PC around a year ago, and he put in a motherboard with SLI capabilities, and now i want to take advantage of this... (nothing really went wrong with one...) but now i fried my graphics card >< from overuse i think... Word of Warcraft... one heck of a game, and soo i figured i could use a new graphics card anyways cuz i had a GeForce 6800 and thats pretty old. Anyway, I want to know if i can run two different graphics cards (from same company) on it or do the cards have to be the same.. i.e if i got a GeForce 8500 GT, and a 8600 GT, would that work. I have not bought new ones yet, but i found a (as in 1) 8500 for $60 (new) and a(as in 1) 8600 for $80 (new)
2007-12-07 11:34:31 · 4 answers · asked by jon 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Same GPU but even different brand and speed usually work. Here's how they do it:
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_howto_install.html
2007-12-07 12:09:43 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With 2 video enjoying cards(of the comparable variety) and a sli like minded motherboard that has sufficient video card slots to hold the two one in each of them, and helps sli mode you are able to run then run slide mode by your application video card.
2016-11-14 20:01:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they both have to be the same....but motherboard companies are working on a way to get two different cards to work together in sli....only problem will be that the two different cards will only be as powerful as the weaker card....like if you put a 8600 and an 8500 together, they'll both work like two 8500's
2007-12-07 11:40:09 · answer #3 · answered by Hugh_G_Rection 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To the best of my knowledge, to make SLI work you need two identical cards. By that I mean not only same processor, but preferably from the same producer.
2007-12-07 11:40:11 · answer #4 · answered by Paul P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋