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I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board
with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- |
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http://www.techreport.com/etc/2004q2/nvidia-sli/index.x
-- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Mick" wrote in message ... I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- |
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That's an SLI (scalable link interface) connector. It permits 2 identical
video cards to be used to produce a single image, with increased performance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface (SLI was originally from 3dfx, and it meant scan line interleaving. nVidia acquired some of the assets of 3dfx when that company died in 2002. The assets must have included the SLI trademark.) HTH. Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "Mick" wrote in message ... I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- |
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Bob Knowlden wrote:
That's an SLI (scalable link interface) connector. It permits 2 identical video cards to be used to produce a single image, with increased performance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface (SLI was originally from 3dfx, and it meant scan line interleaving. nVidia acquired some of the assets of 3dfx when that company died in 2002. The assets must have included the SLI trademark.) HTH. Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "Mick" wrote in message ... I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- Ah - that explains it - many thanks folks Mick -- |
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ah yes. 3Dfx, SLI voodoo2's
a little bit of history can be found he http://www.smokeypoint.com/3dfx.htm rumoured that Nvidea will be using the 3Dfx API (soon ?). if they do bring back the 3Dfx API - I'll purchase Nvidea again. ** no fate ** dracman "Mick" wrote in message ... I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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You need to attach an additional connector to the power supply in order to
run the card without burning it up from low power. -- --------------------- DaveW "Mick" wrote in message ... I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- |
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'DaveW' wrote:
| You need to attach an additional connector to the power supply in order to | run the card without burning it up from low power. _____ The top edge connectors are, as every other responder has noted, for SLI operation of twin nVidia based video cards. Low power will not burn up a video card. Phil Weldon "DaveW" wrote in message ... | You need to attach an additional connector to the power supply in order to | run the card without burning it up from low power. | | -- | --------------------- | DaveW | "Mick" wrote in message | ... | I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board | with PCI-E. | I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. | Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the | top edge - suggesting an additional power source? | | Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual | says nothing .... | | Regards | | Mick | | -- | | | |
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Hi Dave,
I think you may be confusing video cards with refrigerators. ;-)) "DaveW" wrote in message ... You need to attach an additional connector to the power supply in order to run the card without burning it up from low power. -- --------------------- DaveW "Mick" wrote in message ... I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board with PCI-E. I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the top edge - suggesting an additional power source? Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual says nothing .... Regards Mick -- |
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'Ed Forsythe' wrote:
| Hi Dave, | I think you may be confusing video cards with refrigerators. ;-)) _____ SLI refrigerators - now that's a concept B^) Phil Weldon "Ed Forsythe" wrote in message ... | Hi Dave, | I think you may be confusing video cards with refrigerators. ;-)) | "DaveW" wrote in message | ... | You need to attach an additional connector to the power supply in order to | run the card without burning it up from low power. | | -- | --------------------- | DaveW | "Mick" wrote in message | ... | I had to swap my motherboard out - so took advantage of an Asus board | with PCI-E. | I bought an Xpert Vision GeForce7600GT video card - PCI-E version. | Once I got it in the slot, I noticed the small set of contacts on the | top edge - suggesting an additional power source? | | Am I right? Anybody know what these contact are meant for? The manual | says nothing .... | | Regards | | Mick | | -- | | | | | |
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"Phil Weldon" wrote in message nk.net... 'Ed Forsythe' wrote: | Hi Dave, | I think you may be confusing video cards with refrigerators. ;-)) _____ SLI refrigerators - now that's a concept B^) Phil Weldon I have them side by side but where in the hell do you attach this little cable.............??:-) Ed |
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