would a 9----GX2 card run in a single slot PCIe motherboard?
Hi all,
This may be a silly question, but I don't know the answer.
I have a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard. This motherboard has only a
single PCIe slot. I currently have a 8800GT 640meg video card.
Would a 9---GX2 card run in this motherboard. I used to have an ASUS
motherboard with 2 PCIe slots. This MB wanted a circuit card swapped
(plugged in the other way) when you went to 2 cards in SLI.
So I have a MB that only accepts 1 card. Does a MB have to be SLI
compatible to run a 9---GX2, or would a dual GPU that runs SLI
"internally" work?
Re: would a 9----GX2 card run in a single slot PCIe motherboard?
"Gorby" <Gorby@OldRussian.empire.net> wrote in message
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> This may be a silly question, but I don't know the answer.
> I have a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard. This motherboard has only a
> single PCIe slot. I currently have a 8800GT 640meg video card.
> Would a 9---GX2 card run in this motherboard.
Yeah it'll work in your mobo. In fact, it's one of the 9800GX2's selling
features.
> I used to have an ASUS motherboard with 2 PCIe slots. This MB wanted a
> circuit card swapped (plugged in the other way) when you went to 2 cards
> in SLI.
That was a first-gen chipset, which had a total of 16 PCIe lanes available.
The switch card simply changed the routing between having all 16 lanes going
to one slot, or splitting them so that 8 lanes went to each slot. Later
boards had a full 16 lanes going to each slot, eliminating the switch card.
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Re: would a 9----GX2 card run in a single slot PCIe motherboard?
Gorby wrote:
> Hi all,
> This may be a silly question, but I don't know the answer.
> I have a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard. This motherboard has only a
> single PCIe slot. I currently have a 8800GT 640meg video card.
> Would a 9---GX2 card run in this motherboard. I used to have an ASUS
> motherboard with 2 PCIe slots. This MB wanted a circuit card swapped
> (plugged in the other way) when you went to 2 cards in SLI.
>
> So I have a MB that only accepts 1 card. Does a MB have to be SLI
> compatible to run a 9---GX2, or would a dual GPU that runs SLI
> "internally" work?
>
> Cheers
> Gorby
A GX2 is an on-card SLI device, it has only one "bus" though to send
data through, and if not explicitly used, the card will function as a
single GPU. So it should work fine. Even if you had an older SLI board
which split the circuit into two 8x PCIE slots, it would still run fine.
I doubt the P35 has any compatibility problems with PCIE 2.0 either.
One word of caution though, the 9 series is really not "better" than the
GF8's, in many cases they run slower (slightly); for NVIDIA the big
advantage is manufacturing and price. You might want to evaluate an
8800GTX before spending a lot of money; surprisingly even in difficult
tests, it still comes close to a proper SLI setup.
Re: would a 9----GX2 card run in a single slot PCIe motherboard?
> One word of caution though, the 9 series is really not "better" than the
> GF8's, in many cases they run slower (slightly); for NVIDIA the big
> advantage is manufacturing and price. You might want to evaluate an
> 8800GTX before spending a lot of money; surprisingly even in difficult
> tests, it still comes close to a proper SLI setup.
Wow, not only is that a great price but that card is over a year and a
half old and a whole new GeForce line has come out plus maybe a dozen or
so different models of cards since then as well and it holds it own
against all of them.
Man, why couldn't we have had this Civilization-going-out-of-Business
sale sooner! (half j/k)
Re: would a 9----GX2 card run in a single slot PCIe motherboard?
The GTX280 just appeared a couple of days ago in photos. May have something
to do with it...
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> Man, why couldn't we have had this Civilization-going-out-of-Business sale
> sooner! (half j/k)
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