Dubble SLI

[Kylian]

Hey, this may seem like a weird question, but I am really curious about it.
is it possible to use multiple SLI setups in 1 PC build, for example 4x 1080 with 2x2 way sli or even 2x4 way sli (if you have the PCI slots ofcorse)
If not, what would likely happen if you still would try it?

[SquintyG33Rs]

SLI past 2 cards was a thing on older cards. that's why you can find 4 way SLI bridges but nVidia disabled it completely for pascal. it won't do anything and you can't do it. you have to turn it on in the drivers settings when you have cards installed and the option just won't be there.

 

for accelerating workloads SLI isn't used and so you can use as many cards as you want (crypto mining as well) but forget about gaming. it's not worth it anyway

[AlwaysFSX]

1 minute ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

SLI past 2 cards was a thing on older cards. that's why you can find 4 way SLI bridges but nVidia disabled it completely for pascal. it won't do anything and you can't do it. you have to turn it on in the drivers settings when you have cards installed and the option just won't be there.

 

for accelerating workloads SLI isn't used and so you can use as many cards as you want (crypto mining as well) but forget about gaming. it's not worth it anyway

This wasn't about running four cards in one SLI setup , it was about running two sets of two cards in dual SLI.

 

Card A + Card B in dual SLI

Card C + Card D in dual SLI

 

Which I don't think is possible in Geforce drivers regardless.

[SquintyG33Rs]

Just now, AlwaysFSX said:

This wasn't about running four cards in one SLI setup , it was about running two sets of two cards in dual SLI.

 

Card A + Card B in dual SLI

Card C + Card D in dual SLI

 

Which I don't think is possible in Geforce drivers regardless.

that's covered in what i said. i might not have been really clear sorry

[AlwaysFSX]

Just now, SquintyG33Rs said:

that's covered in what i said. i might not have been really clear sorry

All I see that's mentioned about SLI is that it isn't possible past two cards and not used for accelerating workloads.

[SquintyG33Rs]

2 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

All I see that's mentioned about SLI is that it isn't possible past two cards and not used for accelerating workloads.

what about this sentence you litterally repeated yourself

" you have to turn it on in the drivers settings when you have cards installed and the option just won't be there. "

u blind?

[Kylian]

And what if you have a motherboard with 8x pci-16 Would you be able to use 2x4 way sli or even 4x2 way sli (to go completely nuts)?

[AlwaysFSX]

24 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

what about this sentence you litterally repeated yourself

" you have to turn it on in the drivers settings when you have cards installed and the option just won't be there. "

u blind?

Context matters, you were only talking about SLI with more than two cards.

20 minutes ago, Kylian said:

And what if you have a motherboard with 8x pci-16 Would you be able to use 2x4 way sli or even 4x2 way sli (to go completely nuts)?

Probably not, Nvidia's drivers are very picky. I've never heard of someone running two sets of SLI. Driver would probably shit itself.

[NelizMastr]

24 minutes ago, Kylian said:

And what if you have a motherboard with 8x pci-16 Would you be able to use 2x4 way sli or even 4x2 way sli (to go completely nuts)?

1 SLI set per machine, and again, more than two cards in one SLI setup is no longer possible.

[Kylian]

The only card these days that run in 4 way sli are the titan X if I am not mistaking.
So how would I go and make a system where 8 people can game on with sli for example? or is that simply not possible as well?

[Subtle Corruption]

Dubble.. what weeb shit is this?

[Frankenburger]

It's possible to do CFX + SLI in the same environment, but not SLI + SLI. AFAIK, NVCP doesn't let you select what adapters you want in SLI. It just throws all SLI compatible adapters in a lump sum and either turns SLI on or off. You could probably use unRAID to set up two Windows environments within the same system and assign 2 of the 4 cards to one environment and assign the last 2 to the other environment.

[SquintyG33Rs]

12 hours ago, Kylian said:

The only card these days that run in 4 way sli are the titan X if I am not mistaking.
So how would I go and make a system where 8 people can game on with sli for example? or is that simply not possible as well?

it's not only titan X (maxwell version) it anything that came out before the launch of pascal.

 

and making a system where 8 people can game would use virtualisation and would absolutely not use SLI so it's not something you have to take into consideration. If you watch closely during the 2 gamer's 1 CPU and it's sequel there is no SLI used what so ever

 

[Kylian]

so it wouldnt be posible to use 16 graphics cards and then each gamer heaving 2 way sli?