Sli bridge

[jjohnthedon1]

So I just brought a msi sli bridge because of my black and red theme because it looks cool but do they affect performance like at all ?

[Coombzy]

No.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Nope, it's just for looks. 

[Naeaes]

It's digital data, man! Either it works or doesn't. With digital, there's no middle-ground like with noise or interference.

[jjohnthedon1]

No.

Nope, it's just for looks.

so why do they say they are optimised for 4K and 144hz ?

[SeanAngelo]

So I just brought a msi sli bridge because of my black and red theme because it looks cool but do they affect performance like at all ?

nah bruh

[SonoDanshi]

so why do they say they are optimised for 4K and 144hz ?

'cos marketing...

[Oshino Shinobu]

so why do they say they are optimised for 4K and 144hz ?

Marketing. It makes no difference whether you have a SLI bridge that comes with the board, or a fancy one from MSI, EVGA or ASUS. Internally, they're the same. 

[Coombzy]

so why do they say they are optimised for 4K and 144hz ?

Because like all companies. they want you to think it does amazing things, when actually its just a fancy looking bit of tech.

[jjohnthedon1]

Are there any YouTube videos on this ?

[Stefan1024]

It's digital data, man! Either it works or doesn't. With digital, there's no middle-ground like with noise or interference.

 

You would be surprized if you see what high speed digital siganl look like. It's more analog with all the refelections and other side effects.

But until the bir error rate is below the erro correction capabillity of the code used it works fine.

 

And all SLI bridges works, so yes ther is no difference.

[Naeaes]

You would be surprized if you see what high speed digital siganl look like. It's more analog with all the refelections and other side effects.

But until the bir error rate is below the erro correction capabillity of the code used it works fine.

 

And all SLI bridges works, so yes ther is no difference.

Well i guess technically all electro-magnetic signal is analog. There's no on/off without amount. I've actually never seen anything like Ethernet on a real oscilloscope, just on a Fluke screen which just doesn't feel the same.

[Stefan1024]

Well i guess technically all electro-magnetic signal is analog. There's no on/off without amount. I've actually never seen anything like Ethernet on a real oscilloscope, just on a Fluke screen which just doesn't feel the same.

 

It can look like this: 50 ns pulse

scope_8.bmp

 

 

That's the reason you prefer to use a differencial signal: 125 MHz clock

scope_25.bmp

 

But coded signals get even worse. Despite you transmitt digital data, it really looks like analog.