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[Hotrod007]

CArd and board are 16X.. is there a setting for this?

 

I am only running the one card right now.

[JOILNUVEN]

be sure your vga is in the pci-express slot 1 (nearest the socket)...and the jumper are in this mode:

 

in the bios, set the sli aperture on disable

 

edit...exuse me....I thought the mb was a lanparty nf4

[Hotrod007]

Humm this is my board.

 

[intogamer]

2 Cards SLI = 16/2 = 8 lanes for each card

[Reinvented]

I'm not familiar with the bios, but I'm sure there's an option in there for the speed of it. 16 16 both ways for single usage, or 8 16, 16 8, or 8 8. So, check in bios first.

[Hotrod007]

2 Cards SLI = 16/2 = 8 lanes for each card

 

 

HUmm not showing if this is even a 16x card.. you think i'll get the 16 when I add the other?

[Angry_Games]

since the board has automatic SLI switching (no jumpers), the lanes with a single card are only running 8x

 

if you add two cards, you get 8x 8x

 

this is just the design of the board. There is no 16x actual lane speed, though the slots will accept any 16x card

[Hotrod007]

SO i would get 16x if a bought a different board? Sorry for being a nub.. well semi nub..

[hitman012]

8x...16x... there is no difference with the current generation of video cards. It doesn't really matter.

[Hotrod007]

SLI Mode

Use 2 SLI-ready PCI Express x16 graphics cards (use identical cards)

on the PCI Express x16 slots.

In SLI mode, the bandwidth of each x16 slot works at the bandwidth of x8.

When the graphics cards are connected via the SLI bridge, it runs at x16 bandwidth.

 

Is that was that means?

[Angry_Games]

it means that if you only have a single card, either slot will give you 8x

 

if you have 2 cards both slots still run at 8x

 

the slots accept 16x cards, but they only run maximum 8x

 

the Lanparty NF4 boards run at 16x 2x for single cards, 8x 8x for two cards (or still 16x 2x for two cards if you have not moved the jumpers)

[RGone]

it runs at x16 bandwidth. IT meaning Which or What?

 

You got to go ALL the WAY back to the BEGINNING. Nvidia never gave the mobo companies a 'for real' heads up on what was going to be the method for swapping to SLI mode at the outset so all went and geared up for jumpers and stuff. Some with a dongle looking jumper and others with various methods. ALL that was done with those various jumpers was to change lane transer rates and NOT enable SLI.

 

Well all the cards came out saying 16X and no game yet can really knock the socks off of even 4x. Not for real. 1% or 2% is not shett. And it is well within even margin for error on any poll.

 

So time went on and the drivers for Nvidia started allowing all sorts of odd shett including running SLI without even a jumper. I think it took like a 10% or hit or so but hale you did not need all the extra shett.

 

Now enter the newer boards and they are cheaper and some of you went cheaper and did not get the full lane switching jumpers which; well are not really of great need anyway. So now the output of both cards is called 16X when jumpered with the SLI bridge assembly but is total lanes available for useage not what each card is running at by NO means.

 

Maybe that will be a little clearer once you read it.

 

RGone...