SLI bus running at 8x ?

[geezer_wheelz]

Good day

 

I have spent hours trying to find out what the proper bus speed should be when running SLI

 

I have an LP UT nF4 Ultra D board that I did the SLI mod to, 2 - XFX 256mb 7600GT video cards, & the SLI bridge installed. I installed 163.75 ForceWare drivers from nVidia's site. I have changed the jumpers to the correct position on the motherboard, all at 2&3 pins.

 

After reinstalling Windows it is all working, both cards are being seen and windows said that SLI is properly setup, but when I went to the nVidia control panel it said that the SLI bus was 8X.

 

I thought that it was supposed to be 16x

 

Am I wrong?

 

Thanks for your time and knowledge

 

 

Chad

[bldegle2]

top PCI-E slot, one card only>16x

 

bottom PCI-E slot, one card only>2x or 8x, depending on jumper

 

both slots used in SLI, both will be 8x each

 

even @8x, doubtful the PCI-E bus comes close to saturation.....

 

laterzzzz

[soundx98]

bldegle2 is correct as usual.

 

Check out this link towards the bottom of the post for additional clarity.

http://www.diy-street.com/forum/showpost.p...740&postcount=2

[geezer_wheelz]

Thank you both very ,much!

Nice to know I do not have to do anything else except start overclocking!!

 

Thanks for the link as well, awesome page

Just like so many others at this site!!

 

Have a good one