SLI support

I'm getting the parts for a new build and wonder if anyone has had any
problems with SLI cards.
I have currently
(2) SATA - II
2 Gigs of RAM
64 X2 4200+
(2) Nvidia 7800GT - SLI
Tyan K8E - SLI motherboard
and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
No OS and monitor.

Martijn
Mon Dec 26 15:00:28 CST 2005

Samuel wrote:
> I'm getting the parts for a new build and wonder if anyone has had any
> problems with SLI cards.
> I have currently
> (2) SATA - II
> 2 Gigs of RAM
> 64 X2 4200+
> (2) Nvidia 7800GT - SLI
> Tyan K8E - SLI motherboard

Don't know about the motherboard, because I've had bad luck with Tyan (Dual
Athlon MP board... long story). Why not pick that one from Gigabyte? They've
got an SLI board with the chipset cooled passively (not that you'll hear any
difference with two blazing 7800's, but it looks that much more
professional). For the rest it seems pretty good.

> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
> No OS and monitor.

Of course, it all depends on the OS whether your configuration will work. If
you were thinking about Linux, I can't help you. Windows XP x64 should work
without much problems. nVidia releases x64 drivers almost at the same day as
their 32 bit siblings. And games usually support x64 (not that they should,
but some (older?) games won't work on x64, usually due to the incompetence
(32-bit drivers for copyprotection and such) of the developers/publishers).

--
Thanks,

Martijn Saly

Chris
Mon Dec 26 15:57:14 CST 2005

SLi working fine here..using the A8N32-SLi by Asus..dual 16 speed channels!!
Regards
Tyke

"Martijn Saly" <martijn@thany.org> wrote in message
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> Samuel wrote:
>> I'm getting the parts for a new build and wonder if anyone has had any
>> problems with SLI cards.
>> I have currently
>> (2) SATA - II 2 Gigs of RAM
>> 64 X2 4200+
>> (2) Nvidia 7800GT - SLI
>> Tyan K8E - SLI motherboard
>
> Don't know about the motherboard, because I've had bad luck with Tyan
> (Dual Athlon MP board... long story). Why not pick that one from Gigabyte?
> They've got an SLI board with the chipset cooled passively (not that
> you'll hear any difference with two blazing 7800's, but it looks that much
> more professional). For the rest it seems pretty good.
>
>> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
>> No OS and monitor.
>
> Of course, it all depends on the OS whether your configuration will work.
> If you were thinking about Linux, I can't help you. Windows XP x64 should
> work without much problems. nVidia releases x64 drivers almost at the same
> day as their 32 bit siblings. And games usually support x64 (not that they
> should, but some (older?) games won't work on x64, usually due to the
> incompetence (32-bit drivers for copyprotection and such) of the
> developers/publishers).
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Martijn Saly

John
Mon Dec 26 17:36:03 CST 2005

What went wrong with the Tyan board? (SLI asides).

John

Martijn Saly wrote:

> Don't know about the motherboard, because I've had bad luck with Tyan
> (Dual Athlon MP board... long story). Why not pick that one from
> Gigabyte? They've got an SLI board with the chipset cooled passively
> (not that you'll hear any difference with two blazing 7800's, but it
> looks that much more professional). For the rest it seems pretty good.
>
>> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
>> No OS and monitor.

Samuel
Tue Dec 27 09:51:02 CST 2005

John,

I have yet to get an OS for the machine so as of right now I have no
problems. I'm just asking if anyone had any problems like it is not working
with the Windows 64bit, if so I was going to install Windows 32bit on the
machineand wait little while longer before moving to Windows 64bit.

"John John" wrote:

> What went wrong with the Tyan board? (SLI asides).
>
> John
>
> Martijn Saly wrote:
>
> > Don't know about the motherboard, because I've had bad luck with Tyan
> > (Dual Athlon MP board... long story). Why not pick that one from
> > Gigabyte? They've got an SLI board with the chipset cooled passively
> > (not that you'll hear any difference with two blazing 7800's, but it
> > looks that much more professional). For the rest it seems pretty good.
> >
> >> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
> >> No OS and monitor.
>

Colin
Tue Dec 27 15:32:34 CST 2005

I am running a GeForce 6800 GT on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe board without
issues. I am not running dual cards under SLI, however.

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"Samuel" <Samuel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm getting the parts for a new build and wonder if anyone has had any
> problems with SLI cards.
> I have currently
> (2) SATA - II
> 2 Gigs of RAM
> 64 X2 4200+
> (2) Nvidia 7800GT - SLI
> Tyan K8E - SLI motherboard
> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
> No OS and monitor.

TJ
Tue Dec 27 21:22:02 CST 2005

So I take it you can run 32 bit OS on a 64bit system? I am building a system,
but since there are not many 64bit drivers available, I am going with 32bit
for now. I have an ASUS P5N32-SLI mobo since it has dual X16 PCI-e for a
total of 32 bit and will have 2 7800gt vid cards. Should have it together
this week and will let you know if I have any problems.
TJ

"Samuel" wrote:

> John,
>
> I have yet to get an OS for the machine so as of right now I have no
> problems. I'm just asking if anyone had any problems like it is not working
> with the Windows 64bit, if so I was going to install Windows 32bit on the
> machineand wait little while longer before moving to Windows 64bit.
>
> "John John" wrote:
>
> > What went wrong with the Tyan board? (SLI asides).
> >
> > John
> >
> > Martijn Saly wrote:
> >
> > > Don't know about the motherboard, because I've had bad luck with Tyan
> > > (Dual Athlon MP board... long story). Why not pick that one from
> > > Gigabyte? They've got an SLI board with the chipset cooled passively
> > > (not that you'll hear any difference with two blazing 7800's, but it
> > > looks that much more professional). For the rest it seems pretty good.
> > >
> > >> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
> > >> No OS and monitor.
> >

Colin
Tue Dec 27 21:53:15 CST 2005

Yes, you can run x86 operating systems on an x64 boxes. A lot of users in
this ng dual boot x86 and x64.

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"TJ Pepper" <TJ Pepper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F9FC6401-925C-49C0-B7A6-C9EC4F4A0E74@microsoft.com...
> So I take it you can run 32 bit OS on a 64bit system? I am building a
> system,
> but since there are not many 64bit drivers available, I am going with
> 32bit
> for now. I have an ASUS P5N32-SLI mobo since it has dual X16 PCI-e for a
> total of 32 bit and will have 2 7800gt vid cards. Should have it together
> this week and will let you know if I have any problems.
> TJ
>
> "Samuel" wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> I have yet to get an OS for the machine so as of right now I have no
>> problems. I'm just asking if anyone had any problems like it is not
>> working
>> with the Windows 64bit, if so I was going to install Windows 32bit on the
>> machineand wait little while longer before moving to Windows 64bit.
>>
>> "John John" wrote:
>>
>> > What went wrong with the Tyan board? (SLI asides).
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > Martijn Saly wrote:
>> >
>> > > Don't know about the motherboard, because I've had bad luck with Tyan
>> > > (Dual Athlon MP board... long story). Why not pick that one from
>> > > Gigabyte? They've got an SLI board with the chipset cooled passively
>> > > (not that you'll hear any difference with two blazing 7800's, but it
>> > > looks that much more professional). For the rest it seems pretty
>> > > good.
>> > >
>> > >> and a bunch of extra stuff just to make it look good.
>> > >> No OS and monitor.
>> >