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NVIDIA Series Graphics Accelerator

How NVIDIA

®

SLI

TM

(Scalable Link Interface) technology works:

SLI Confi guration:

3-Way SLI Confi guration:

SLI bridge connector

(provided by motherboard manufacturer)

If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of an SLI system, the following are required:

- An SLI certifi ed motherboard with two/three PCIe x16 slots and correct chipset driver

- An SLI bridge connector or 3-way SLI bridge connector

In an SLI confi guration, two/three SLI-ready graphics cards of the same model and the same manufacturers

are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that provides two/three x16 PCI Express slots to

scale graphics performance. The picture below shows that two and three graphics cards are linked in parallel

in an SLI confi guration.