NVIDIA SLI LENGTH LIMIT ?

[Justgame32]

So i'm planning to move my pc from it's case to kind of a display wall where everything would be layed out on the wall. However it's current config is two 1080's in SLI. What i am wondering is if i were to lay the graphics cards on top of each other (backplate on the wall) and use pci-extensions to connect them to the MoBo, could i possibly connect them in SLI ? I've looked around and it seems the maximum length i can find off the shelf is 4-slot ribbon cables... not nearly long enough. If i were to create my own, would there be some kind of performance drop ? would it even work ?

 

 

thanks in advance

[mxk]

you want to layer the graphics card? Or am I reading wrong? 

[2019]

Theoretically, it shouldn't hinder performance since from reading your post it isn't crazy long for a signal to travel however I really don't know.

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, mxk. said:

you want to layer the graphics card? Or am I reading wrong? 

I think they want this orientation:

or something similar

 

[mxk]

Just now, fasauceome said:

I think they want this orientation:

 

or something similar

 

that makes way more sense, thanks man

[Justgame32]

More like this (quick photoshop included), all the cables (and the bridge) would be behind the graphics cards.

[mxk]

1 minute ago, Justgame32 said:

More like this (quick photoshop included), all the cables (and the bridge) would be behind the graphics cards.

yeah you can do that but the cable does need to be long enough. Linus actually did in his video with that project ortherus thingy (I think I got the name wrong but you get the idea)

[Justgame32]

Thanks for the replies, so in theory it should work.. i'm going to try it and see how it goes !

 

[Mick Naughty]

Should work. Plenty of good videos that do it and show mention where they get the cables for it. 

 

Id give it a try. As long as you tested the system as you are gonna use it after to notice any issues if they arise.