I"ve heard people saying that it is possible to use SLI without the bridge, is this true? I have a Lian LI case (in sig) with a side blower over the gfx cards which helps a ton to draw the hot air thats just blown around from the 700cu's and when i have the bridge on the little nubs at the 4 corners of the bridge either make a loud clicking sound as the fan brushes them or they completely block the fan from rotating. I tried the search tool and came up empty, anyone know how this is done?

*edit* Well I read that it should still work without the bridge but it takes a decent performance hit (around 15%) but most of the posts I'm finding online are talking about 70 series forceware and are almost a year old... does it still take a big performance hit? If it takes anything over a 5% I'd rather run it a little more warm than lose that much performance, might just have to get a dremel and make new screw holes like a tenth of an inch away from where they are currently...

i think you should get an sli bridge from newegg or jab-tech, that performance hit is near the performance you get when going SLI.

um.. what? I already have a bridge, and I already have it running in sli. the bridge has four little nubs at the corners on top that mess with my blower, I dont need another bridge, the performance hit I was reffering to was going from sli with the bridge to sli without, not the performance hit the second card takes.

sorry, i miss read the hole story. You can dremel the shit out of that bridge, as long as you dont mess with the tracks in the pcb.

hmm.. so it would be ok to say, *carefully* snap those 4 annoying posts off the bridge? I dont even see why they are there.

For smaller video cards like the 6600 (not GT) the SLI bridge is not required.

If you need to buy the SLI bridge I think there are a couple of stores in the US that sell it, in its two sizes: ASUS/DFI Expert and the rest.

Don't do it, it's not worth the performance decrease.