Modding Crossfire Bridge

[Ryujin2003]

I have an idea for using my old cross fire bridge to mod part of my case. Its one of those sexy MSI LED bridges:

I would like to use it for looks by modding it into the grill, and have no plans to use it for Crossfire. Does anyone have any idea on how to get the LED to work without hooking it up to GPUs? I would hook up wires to something, but don't want to break it and ruin my plans because I haven't done this yet. Looking for thoughts before I start destroying this thing.

Has anyone done such a thing? Google hasn't really resulted in much.

[TheRandomness]

Don't you mean SLI bridge? Crossfire bridges are a thing of the past. There should be 2 wires going in to power the LED, and if you could measure the voltage on it when it's powered then find a suitable power source, that could work. 

[Ryujin2003]

I had assumed it was for CF since I got it with an R9 380, even though it doesn't have any slots. So yes, it could be SLI. I've never used it, so didn't really look into it too much at first.

 

So I cannot test any power on any bridge connectors on my GPU, but do you think it'll be save to try connecting 12v wires to different connectors until it works? I know that if it's too high, it'll blow the LED, and then its pretty useless at that point. I guess I could always replace it if it blows. I didn't know what voltage those things generally use.

 

[HeroXLazer]

7 hours ago, Ryujin2003 said:

I had assumed it was for CF since I got it with an R9 380, even though it doesn't have any slots. So yes, it could be SLI. I've never used it, so didn't really look into it too much at first.

 

So I cannot test any power on any bridge connectors on my GPU, but do you think it'll be save to try connecting 12v wires to different connectors until it works? I know that if it's too high, it'll blow the LED, and then its pretty useless at that point. I guess I could always replace it if it blows. I didn't know what voltage those things generally use.

 

R9 380 doesn't use a bridge

[Ryujin2003]

7 hours ago, HeroXLazer said:

R9 380 doesn't use a bridge

I know it doesn't, but I still got one in the box.

[HeroXLazer]

7 hours ago, Ryujin2003 said:

I know it doesn't, but I still got one in the box.

It won't do anything

[Ryujin2003]

2 hours ago, HeroXLazer said:

It won't do anything

Can't hook up wires to get the LED to light up? Not using at a bridge, but potential badge for case mod.

[HeroXLazer]

7 hours ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Can't hook up wires to get the LED to light up? Not using at a bridge, but potential badge for case mod.

maybe but would be hard