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NVIDIA, Scalable Link Interface technology works

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English How NVIDIA® SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface) technology works: In an SLI configuration, two SLI-ready graphics cards of the same model and the same manufacturers are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that provides two PCI Express x16 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-NX86T256H) - 9 - Hardware Installation

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Hardware Installation
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English
How
NVIDIA
®
SLI
(Scalable Link Interface) technology works:
In an SLI configuration, two SLI-ready graphics cards of
the same model and the same manufacturers
are connected together via SLI bridge connector in a system that provides two PCI Express x16 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-NX86T256H)
SLI bridge connector
(provided by motherboard manufacturer)