Gigabyte GV-NX78X512VP-B Manual - Page 8

NVIDIA, Scalable Link Interface technology works

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English How NVIDIA® SLITM (Scalable Link Interface) technology works: In an SLI configuration, two SLI-ready graphics cards with the same model and from the same manufacturers are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that provides two x 16 PCI Express slots to scale graphics performance. The picture below shows that two graphics cards are linked in parallel in an SLI configuration. Two SLI-ready graphics cards of the same type. (Example: GV-NX66T128D) SLI bridge connector (provided by motherboard manufacturer) For more information about the hardware configuration of an SLI system, please refer to motherboard user manual. GV-NX78X512VP-B Graphics Accelerator - 8 -

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English
How
NVIDIA
®
SLI
TM
(Scalable Link Interface) technology works:
In an SLI configuration, two SLI-ready graphics cards with the same model and from the
same manufacturers are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that
provides two x 16 PCI Express slots to scale graphics performance. The picture below
shows that two graphics cards are linked in parallel in an SLI configuration.
SLI bridge connector
(provided by motherboard manufacturer)
Two SLI-ready graphics
cards of the same type.
(Example: GV-NX66T128D)
For more information about the hardware configuration of an SLI system, please refer to
motherboard user manual.