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?

Cheers
Gorby

"Gorby" wrote in message
node...
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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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.

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.

Especially when you can get a brand new PNY 8800GTX 768mB OC unit for a
"right now" PRICE OF $289.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133200

Especially when you can get a brand new PNY 8800GTX 768mB OC unit for a
"right now" PRICE OF $289.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133200

Sorry, that one's out of stock right now....this PNY 8800GTX one is $269
and in stock...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133187

Crazy price....8800GTS units go in this price range.

Augustus wrote:
Especially when you can get a brand new PNY 8800GTX 768mB OC unit for a
"right now" PRICE OF $289.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133200

Sorry, that one's out of stock right now....this PNY 8800GTX one is $269
and in stock...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133187

Crazy price....8800GTS units go in this price range.


Thanks All!

Augustus wrote:
Especially when you can get a brand new PNY 8800GTX 768mB OC unit for a
"right now" PRICE OF $289.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133200

Sorry, that one's out of stock right now....this PNY 8800GTX one is $269
and in stock...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133187

Crazy price....8800GTS units go in this price range.




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)

The GTX280 just appeared a couple of days ago in photos. May have something
to do with it...

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message
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Man, why couldn't we have had this Civilization-going-out-of-Business sale
sooner! (half j/k)