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4 nvidia, Sli™ technology, 1 requirements – Asus P5NSLI User Manual

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ASUS P5NSLI Series

3-11

3.4

NVIDIA

®

SLI™ technology

The motherboard supports the NVIDIA

®

SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface)

technology that allows you to install two identical PCI Express™ x16

graphics cards. Follow the installation procedures in this section.

3.4.1 Requirements

• You should have two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are

NVIDIA

®

certified.

• Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) for a list of qualified SLI-ready

graphics cards for this motherboard.

• Make sure that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI

technology. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website

(www.nvidia.com).

• Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least

the minimum power required by your system. See “9. ATX power

connectors” on page 1-33 for details.

• The NVIDIA SLI technology supports Windows

®

XP™ operating

system only.

• Visit the NVIDIA website for the supported 3D applications.
• Visit the NVIDIA zone website (http://www.nzone.com) for the

latest certified graphics card list.