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Can I SLI 2 different 8800's?

CleveraliasCleveralias Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Just like the topic say - here are the details - I currently have a BFG tech 8800 GTS - the problem is there is no HDMI port and I want to hook it up to my 60" Wega to play Age of Conan - can I buy a different model 8800 video card (possibly different manufacturer) that has HDMI out and use it in conjunction with my current one in SLI or does SLI require Identical Cards (my mobo is SLI ready) ?

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  • Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Nope. Have to be identical with everything except Hybrid SLI...and I think that only works with 9x cards.

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    One more thing.

    AoC doesn't work with SLI cards currently, you'll only use one in the end regardless.

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  • focused7focused7 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You could just buy a DVI->HDMI cable and use your current card. DVI and HMDI are the exact same video signal.

    monoprice link

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    focused7 wrote: »
    You could just buy a DVI->HDMI cable and use your current card. DVI and HMDI are the exact same video signal.

    monoprice link

    Yeah that would be easiest route, HDMI and DVI like he said are the exact same video signal just HDMI has audio in it.

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    which of course means you'll need some way to move audio to the TV as well, but it should also be fairly trivial.

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  • CleveraliasCleveralias Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    My TV has DVI in but won't output it at 1080p - I think is an HDCP issue - will the DVI-HDMI solution allow A sony to display 1080p from the 8800 ?

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    As far as I know two g80 GTS' will work in SLI. The same can said for g92 GTS' regardless of manufacturer. Even 320mb and 640mb g80 GTS' will work in SLI together.

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  • DratatooDratatoo Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    which of course means you'll need some way to move audio to the TV as well, but it should also be fairly trivial.

    I don't think that the graphic card will output audio :P

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Some newer ATI cards do. Not sure about Nvidia ones though.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The 9800GX2 has an HDMI port on it, HDMI does audio but I'm not sure if the card supports that part of the connection.

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  • .kbf?.kbf? Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Macro9 wrote: »
    As far as I know two g80 GTS' will work in SLI. The same can said for g92 GTS' regardless of manufacturer. Even 320mb and 640mb g80 GTS' will work in SLI together.

    I think the way it works is if the GPU is the same you can SLI it but any differences will be capped to the lower end card. So if you SLI a 320 and a 640 together the 640 will be capped at 320mb.

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  • CleveraliasCleveralias Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Thanks to everyone who responded to my question - I purchased a DVI to HDMI converter and now my TV is displaying the output from my 8800 gts in is full 1080p glory! for some reason I loose about 1/2 inch around the edge of the screen put other than that the picture is perfect!

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  • TM2 RampageTM2 Rampage Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    What res is your TV? Make sure you're outputting to the TV at the TV's native res.

    BTW this thread http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2198148&enterthread=y says that the two SLI'd cards can be from diff. manufacturers... just needs to be the same model

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