Older SLI Bridge O.K?

[Slik]

I received my new Area 51 with Nvidia cards this time. Dell installed them using the standard short bridge. I need to separate them but the only longer bridge I have is one I used with two GTX 280s a while ago. Will that bridge work with two 480 GTXs? I don't want to experiment and maybe screw it all up. Thanks for any input.

[SugarJ]

There's only one version of the SLI bridge. Any one should work fine.

[Slik]

Thanks. Here I go.

[rjbarker]

- Flexible
- Stiff for Sli
- Stiff for Tri Sli
- Stiff for Quad Sli

Any one of the above will work fine, just remember when installing the 2 x Sli Bridge to get it on the right connectors (closest to the GPU exhaust)....I use the stiff Tri Sli Bridge ;) ....for aesthetics (sp).....and in reality, thier has beenno need for the Bridge fof sometime.....slight increase Benching only....cannot remember which Driver version did away with te Sli Bridge, quite a long time ago..could have been 18x.xx

[_dangtx_]

i take it for higher resolutions its a good idea to leave it on? :)

[Technokat]

i was debating doing the same thing, to seperate my 480's out a bit for cool runninz :)

[rjbarker]

i was debating doing the same thing, to seperate my 480's out a bit for cool runninz :)

You mean you run your 480's right next to each other?...as in no empty PCI-E slot between them? .......why? let em "breathe"....

[Slik]

I have two bridges that are the long ones. I read that using two bridges is pointless as there is no difference than using only one.Is this correct? Should I use both bridges?

[Slik]

Originally Posted by Technokat

i was debating doing the same thing, to seperate my 480's out a bit for cool runninz :)

You may not be able to leave the video card shroud on once you separate the cards. There is a lip at the bottom that will not slide past ypur cards.Leaving the door off is better anyway but the lip at the bottom can easily be cut to allow putting the door back on if you wish. I did that with my last Area 51 and all was O.K. You need a good spin cutter and a steady hand. [Gotta say, I'm glad I went back to Nvidia.]

[Slik]

As posted above, I'm surprised no one has advice. Is it better to use two bridges? Any performance benefit? When I had ATI cards,I remember reading that there was no benefit. Is that true for Nvidia as well? Surely someone here knows. Technokat? You have the Alienware with Nvidia,What do you use? Thanks all.