Gtx 1060 sli

[Ion4545]

I've been thinking since board partners like msi pny evga ect. can make custom pcb's for cards can they make sli fingers and make it sli compatible? or is it in the microcode that tells it not to do that if so can they change the microcode to make it sli compatible?

[RGProductions]

Just now, Ion4545 said:

I've been thinking since board partners like msi pny evga ect. can make custom pcb's for cards can they make sli fingers and make it sli compatible? or is it in the microcode that tells it not to do that if so can they change the microcode to make it sli compatible?

SLI will not happen. I believe Nvidia is phasing out SLI all together 

[App4that]

iChill has a 1060 on the way that might have SLI fingers, but they will be meaningless without developer support so a mute point.

[Electronics Wizardy]

The chip probably doesn't have it. 

 

Why would you want to sli it?

 

Wait for good multi adapter in DX12 or vulkan or use cuda/opencl

[skullrebell]

Just now, Ion4545 said:

I've been thinking since board partners like msi pny evga ect. can make custom pcb's for cards can they make sli fingers and make it sli compatible? or is it in the microcode that tells it not to do that if so can they change the microcode to make it sli compatible?

even because they can put a finger on it its up to nvidia to make it active or not, its like putting flame decalsd on a car, you can do it, dosent mean it will make your car run better

[Ion4545]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

The chip probably doesn't have it. 

 

Why would you want to sli it?

 

Wait for good multi adapter in DX12 or vulkan or use cuda/opencl

three are some rumors going around reddit that 2 1060's in sli will be better than a 1080 but there's no way to test it without the capability

[Vikesh]

5 minutes ago, Ion4545 said:

three are some rumors going around reddit that 2 1060's in sli will be better than a 1080 but there's no way to test it without the capability

if there will be an 3rd party card with sli fingers there will be a YT vid so we just have to wait for it ^^

[manikyath]

so... i feel the need to add something here:

 

when i built my system, i made two decisions:

- i'd go with a 970 for now (there's a story about those last 2 words i'm not gonna bore you with)

- i'd go for a motherboard with SLI support, and a power supply with plenty of wattage to support two high end cards

"just in case"

 

now.. just about a year and a half later, my 970 is still a happy single, with some occasional side action with nothing less than a HD5770

i've all but dropped the idea of caring about SLI, one card is giving me plenty of issues already, and even if it'd come down to needing more performance i'd rather dock out the money for a single faster card than getting a second 970 on the cheap. (second hand market is kinda hilareous here...)

if i'm ever gonna make use of that second x16 physical slot on my motherboard, it's gonna be for two cards doing their own work seperately, either trough the -whatever the duck the multi gpu thing in DX12 thing is called- or to have both cards perform different purposes.

Just now, Vikesh said:

if there will be an 3rd party card with sli fingers there will be a YT vid so we just have to wait for it ^^

i can tell you right now without a crystal ball that there'll never be a 3rd party GTX1060 with SLI fingers.

[Cracklingice]

The thing is that custom PCBs *may* be able to add in the SLI connectors, but the NVIDIA 1060 driver won't have the functionality coded in.  Personally, this removal has me seriously considering the RX480 over the 1060.  I don't support multi card over stronger single card when available, but it is far easier on the budget to order a second 1060 than it is to sell the first one and go a week or so without any PC while you wait on the 1070 or 1080 to arrive in the event an upgrade is desired.
With all that said, 2 1060s will still work in DX12 multi-adapter mode but the number of titles supporting it aren't all that strong yet.