Mobo sli support

Shadador · August 31, 2016

Does the msi b150 PC mate support sli for nvidia graphics cards?

tikker · August 31, 2016

1 minute ago, Shadador said:

Does the msi b150 PC mate support sli for nvidia graphics cards?

No it only supports Crossfire (AMD).

Oshino Shinobu · August 31, 2016

No. Only the Z and X series chipsets support SLI. (AFAIK. There's probably an exception somewhere)

Is there a good reason for it? Nope, just Nvidia being Nvidia.

SnowyMus · August 31, 2016

31 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

No. Only the Z and X series chipsets support SLI. (AFAIK. There's probably an exception somewhere)

Is there a good reason for it? Nope, just Nvidia being Nvidia.

There isn't an exception, sadly. This is due to a design in the chipset itself as well as NVIDIA's SLI requirements. You need all cards to run in at least x8 mode. However, the B150 chipset (as well as the other H and B chipsets) only supports x16 mode for graphics cards and cannot split the lanes, meaning the other cards will use 4 lanes from the chipset while the first card uses 16 lanes from the CPU. Crossfire doesn't have the x8 minimum requirement, so it'll work.

Mr.Humble · August 31, 2016

1 hour ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

No. Only the Z and X series chipsets support SLI. (AFAIK. There's probably an exception somewhere)

Is there a good reason for it? Nope, just Nvidia being Nvidia.

The board has to me SLI certified from Nvidia, but it doesn't have to be only on Z and X series chipsets.

Oshino Shinobu · August 31, 2016

3 minutes ago, vojta.pokorny said:

The board has to me SLI certified from Nvidia, but it doesn't have to be only on Z and X series chipsets.

Yeah, it has to be certified by Nvidia, but AFAIK, Nvidia has only certified Z and X series chipset boards. Didn't mean that it could only possibly work on Z or X, but they're the only ones that actually have support for it from what I know.