Advice on SLI...Anything I need to know?

[Celeron_Phreak]

Probably this weekened I'll have an SLI setup, as I have a card coming from these forums and a VF700 from NewEgg as well.

Is there anything I need to know before the card arrives? I know I need to flip that circuitboard between the PCI-E slots around and put the PCI-E bridge in place to connect both cards. Am I missing anything important?

[Careface]

Nope.. just be prepared to reboot to enable SLI with the gfx drivers when they prompt you with what you want to do with the cards.

Careface*

[azu]

im so glad i paid extra for the a8n sli premium board.

i turn sli on and off without restarting :D

[Celeron_Phreak]

That's the only difference between the "hot wired" A8N-SLI and the "native" A8N-SLI Premium? I was suspectful that it had more options in the BIOS or something.

One more question. Do both cards have to be running the same BIOS revision?

[einstein2]

yea both have to be the same.

[Celeron_Phreak]

Okay. So I remove the current card, put the new card in and check the BIOS. If it's different, I flash it to the same one as my current card and then install both cards for SLI?

[hotrod469]

Okay. So I remove the current card, put the new card in and check the BIOS. If it's different, I flash it to the same one as my current card and then install both cards for SLI? Thats how I did it........have fun!

[redrumy3]

Thats how I did it........have fun!
i dont get why the cards have to have same bios?

i dont see nothing here about that. http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_faq.html#c3

and the new drivers have this:
Adds mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI

[hotrod469]

You are correct they do not have to, they did with the older drivers. I wood recamend they have the same BIOS just to pervent a conflict.