New EVGA Pro SLI bridges advertised to improve gaming

[AlwaysFSX]

I want to plate that silver to be orange.. It'd look soooo good.

[Nup]

Sigh... 

[DildorTheDecent]

I want to plate that silver to be orange.. It'd look soooo good.

I like your thinking. 

[notenoughtv]

This looks like thousand dollar HDMI cables

[LegacyStijncat]

We all know EVGA is full of s*** when it comes to things they invent, the engineers always think they created a divine thing..

[asim1999]

I want to plate that silver to be orange.. It'd look soooo good.

True, it would look awesome with the gigabyte mobos.

But they must do it right, otherwise it would look like Jen-Hsun Huang's vomit 

[VSG]

This is not snake oil, not entirely anyway. The older bridges, including the first Gen EVGA Pro SLI bridges ran at 400 MHz. This is absolutely fine for even 4k@60Hz on just about any application. But even 1440p@120hz/144Hz resulted in massive flickering. People had to exchange their first Gen bridges for something that was a workaround then, and even the stock bridges that came with older cards did the same thing. Nvidia has since reworked the SLI bridge to accommodate for this issue, and the upgrade here is relative to the older SLI bridges only including the first Gen Pro SLI bridges from EVGA. Currently provided stock SLI bridges will be performing no differently.

So if you have purchased a motherboard the last year or so, you will be fine with the bridges provided in it. But let's face it, the only reason to buy this really is for aesthetics only and if you have older bridges that flicker on high res/high refresh rate monitors.

[SatansHollow]

They do look good. The water block manufacturers should be on this. A bridge illuminated or not complimenting your liquid cooled cards would be awesome

[asim1999]

This is not snake oil, not entirely anyway. The older bridges, including the first Gen EVGA Pro SLI bridges ran at 400 MHz. This is absolutely fine for even 4k@60Hz on just about any application. But even 1440p@120hz/144Hz resulted in massive flickering. People had to exchange their first Gen bridges for something that was a workaround then, and even the stock bridges that came with older cards did the same thing. Nvidia has since reworked the SLI bridge to accommodate for this issue, and the upgrade here is relative to the older SLI bridges only including the first Gen Pro SLI bridges from EVGA. Currently provided stock SLI bridges will be performing no differently.

So if you have purchased a motherboard the last year or so, you will be fine with the bridges provided in it. But let's face it, the only reason to buy this really is for aesthetics only and if you have older bridges that flicker on high res/high refresh rate monitors.

But then would that not be an issue anyway cos of G-sync (what nvidia would say as the solution) 

[VSG]

But then would that not be an issue anyway cos of G-sync (what nvidia would say as the solution)

No, this is an inherent multi GPU + momitor issue. Nothing to do with program fps itself. Nvidia's solution is already out there with the currently available SLI bridges, including very likely their own custom SLI bridges.

[cesrai]

This is not snake oil, not entirely anyway. The older bridges, including the first Gen EVGA Pro SLI bridges ran at 400 MHz. This is absolutely fine for even 4k@60Hz on just about any application. But even 1440p@120hz/144Hz resulted in massive flickering. People had to exchange their first Gen bridges for something that was a workaround then, and even the stock bridges that came with older cards did the same thing. Nvidia has since reworked the SLI bridge to accommodate for this issue, and the upgrade here is relative to the older SLI bridges only including the first Gen Pro SLI bridges from EVGA. Currently provided stock SLI bridges will be performing no differently.

So if you have purchased a motherboard the last year or so, you will be fine with the bridges provided in it. But let's face it, the only reason to buy this really is for aesthetics only and if you have older bridges that flicker on high res/high refresh rate monitors.

Got proof as @Godlygamer23 had a talk with there customer support and they said it only look beautiful.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/344711-new-evga-pro-sli-bridges-advertised-to-improve-gaming/?p=4696897

[VSG]

Got proof as @Godlygamer23 had a talk with there customer support and they said it only look beautiful.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/344711-new-evga-pro-sli-bridges-advertised-to-improve-gaming/?p=4696897

 

That guy said that these won't increase performance, and he is right. These won't do anything for performance of the cards themselves, but rather help eliminate a small issue while looking, arguably, better than stock bridges. That's all.

 

As far as the pixel clock issue:

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/0_50#post_23774643

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/50_50#post_23775443

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/50_50#post_23775535

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/50_50#post_23775474

 

http://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-NVIDIA-Pixel-Clock-Patcher?page=1

[Godlygamer23]

That guy said that these won't increase performance, and he is right. These won't do anything for performance of the cards themselves, but rather help eliminate a small issue while looking, arguably, better than stock bridges. That's all.

 

As far as the pixel clock issue:

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/0_50#post_23774643

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/50_50#post_23775443

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/50_50#post_23775535

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1550293/evga-new-pro-sli-bridges-v2/50_50#post_23775474

 

http://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-NVIDIA-Pixel-Clock-Patcher?page=1

It's clearly a driver problem then and an SLI bridge doesn't fix that. It's all marketing bullshit from EVGA.

[VSG]

It's clearly a driver problem then and an SLI bridge doesn't fix that. It's all marketing bullshit from EVGA.

 

What? That last link that helps the driver enable this only works if the SLI bridge is capable of the higher pixel clock. There have been several consumers who have had issues with this irrespective of driver before.

 

Let's not get confused here. The bridge itself is not needed as long as you have any recent stock SLI bridge, but the issue it fixes is very real. Rare, but real nonetheless.

[Godlygamer23]

What? That last link that helps the driver enable this only works if the SLI bridge is capable of the higher pixel clock. There have been several consumers who have had issues with this irrespective of driver before.

 

Let's not get confused here. The bridge itself is not needed as long as you have any recent stock SLI bridge, but the issue it fixes is very real. Rare, but real nonetheless.

I want to see this actually get verified.

[VSG]

I want to see this actually get verified.

 

Just talk to some of the guys who had this issue. I know a few personally and I trust them, they got nothing to do with EVGA either. One in particular was just using the stock SLI bridge from his motherboard too.

[asim1999]

No, this is an inherent multi GPU + momitor issue. Nothing to do with program fps itself. Nvidia's solution is already out there with the currently available SLI bridges, including very likely their own custom SLI bridges.

oh, so the SLI Bridges for my Rampage V Extreme are fine then? In what year did they make the fix?

[arnavvr]

@JustCallMeVlad 4 way SLI EVGA Pro-Bridge 

[bobhays]

I thought they were just trolling with that. I guess they were seriously using that.

[VSG]

oh, so the SLI Bridges for my Rampage V Extreme are fine then? In what year did they make the fix?

 

Yeah those are fine, I have the RVE as well and checked them when this issue had first come out last year. Not sure exactly when the update was done to be honest!

[GrimNeo]

I'm calling BS... it's a communication bridge, that's it.

It does not improve performance but does help out with flickering issue that the first gen EVGA pro SLI bridges had at 120Hz+. Not all of them ran at 400MHz. The new ones run at 540MHz.

 

Since its still NVIDIA certified I call BS, and honestly dislike that move from EVGA

See first post.

 

Wow Nvidia had nothing to do with this yet there is still hate lmao!

 

Op they look nice but i don't believe this "high pixel clock" bs

see first post

 

It's literally a digital cable. This is just like those 500$ usb cables. There is a standard (in this case dictated by nvidia, which I'm sure has all the interest in leaving as little bottleneck as possible in something so dumb as a cable), all sli bridges perform the same and in accordance to that standard, by definition.

 

Better looks, I can sort of understand though.

See first post. Also these SLI bridges are the same cost as the original and Nvidia SLI bridges. I hardly call $29.99 a $500 usb cable.

 

Anyways I bought 2 of these. I have a monitor that supports 144Hz at 1440p. I will test these with the EVGA SLI bridge from 2012 to see if I get flickering.

 

http://www.evga.com/articles/00919/EVGA-Pro-SLI-Bridges-V2/They're out of stock again. I just bought 2 of these on Thursday when they were in stock. I got the long version for my Titan X's. They were only $29.99 each and they are sexy.

[Sauron]

See first post. Also these SLI bridges are the same cost as the original and Nvidia SLI bridges. I hardly call $29.99 a $500 usb cable.

 

Anyways I bought 2 of these. I have a monitor that supports 144Hz at 1440p. I will test these with the EVGA SLI bridge from 2012 to see if I get flickering.

 

http://www.evga.com/articles/00919/EVGA-Pro-SLI-Bridges-V2/They're out of stock again. I just bought 2 of these on Thursday when they were in stock. I got the long version for my Titan X's. They were only $29.99 each and they are sexy.

 

I was comparing the marketing rather than the cost. Of course these make much more sense since they look cool and don't cost much, but false advertisement bothers me. Maybe their own bridges had problems in the past, but that's not something to praise the new product for...

[GrimNeo]

I was comparing the marketing rather than the cost. Of course these make much more sense since they look cool and don't cost much, but false advertisement bothers me. Maybe their own bridges had problems in the past, but that's not something to praise the new product for...

As far as I understood it was Nvidia problem. So EVGA and Nvidia fixed it. I have both older Nvidia and EVGA sli bridges and I will test both.

[Sauron]

As far as I understood it was Nvidia problem. So EVGA and Nvidia fixed it. I have both older Nvidia and EVGA sli bridges and I will test both.

 

Can't wait for the results

[GrimNeo]

Can't wait for the results

I'm with you on this one. I get it Wednesday but I will post it here or make a thread about it.