Mod the Ultra-D to SLI-D Picture Tutorial

[Nil Einne]

Actually the colour of the pencil doesn't matter. Depending on the country and brand, they can be red or green or yellow and black or other colours. However in most countries there's no such thing as a no 2 pencil anyway I believe B or HB is the closest equivalent.

[2fast4u]

ok so wut exactly is it that your doing??? do u just make a contact between the two of them??? if so can't u just solder a wire between the 2?? srry but im a noob...

[gearhead13]

I did the mod and it works ok, but every once in a while my games crash with a device driver stuck in hardware error or that the driver stopped working properly. I have 2 7600 GT ko's.

[Nil Einne]

Yes you are making a contact as has been discussed so many times. You can try soldering and others have done so, but unless you are very confident with your soldering skills I wouldn't recommend it. You could easily damage something unintentionally.

 

gear: It's unlikely your problems have anything to do with the mod IMHO. It could be a power supply issue (with a 550W Sparkle seems unlikely but don't rule out a dud), a heat issue, an OS issue, a driver issue, a card issue or any number of things.

[gearhead13]

I had the cards overclocked and was getting errors, then i set them to default and havent had a problem since.

I read somewhere that you cant o/c an sli setup, is that true?

[Nil Einne]

I've never won an SLI setup or been interested in one and since this isn't mod related, it would be best to ask in another thread, maybe not even in DFI-Street. However I would expect you can overclock an SLI setup. But it's possible that certain aspects of the card are pushed harder then normal or are more crash prone in an SLI setup therefore OCing is more difficult and less likely to have success in an SLI setup.

 

Of course, in an SLI setup, you're effectively limited to the lower of your two cards in both memory and GPU since running the cards async is AFAIK a bad idea and probably won't help much anyway. I presume you've test both cards seperately beforehand to find out their individual maximum stable OC? What did you use to test them? Been a while since I OCed a video card but 3DMark2006 or 7 for 12 hours straight would be my recommended minimum. Don't forget to occasionally look for artifacts.

[soundx98]

Yes you definitely can OC cards and use them in SLI.

At least XFX 7800GTs worked for me from 450 Core to 525.

[theycallmeMR]

right so you cab take 1 motherboard with a nvidia chipset and two gpu pcie slots and trun it into a sli board great . But if it wasnt a sli or crossfire board why does it have two gfx slots? im lost lol what is it originally if it aint sli or cf ??????

[Praz]

right so you cab take 1 motherboard with a nvidia chipset and two gpu pcie slots and trun it into a sli board great . But if it wasnt a sli or crossfire board why does it have two gfx slots? im lost lol what is it originally if it aint sli or cf ??????

The board can have the capability of using two x16 slot video cards without running them in SLi.

[theycallmeMR]

cool so you could run games on 1 and ure desktop on the other ?

[neilcha]

ive just done the mod , worked on my second attempt , worked with the pencil so i did not bother doing anything else.

also recieved two sli bridges through the post today , one off dfi (thanks bulldog) & the other i got off ebay and thought it was lost in post so now i have two so if anyone needs an sli bridge give me a shout .

[red930]

i have two so if anyone needs an sli bridge give me a shout .

 

Very nice of you to offer and contribute to the forum.