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A S U S A 8 N - S L I P r e m i u m
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A S U S A 8 N - S L I P r e m i u m
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6.1
Overview
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.
6.1.1
6.1.1
6.1.1
6.1.1
6.1.1
Requirements
Requirements
Requirements
Requirements
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 “8. ATX power
connectors” on page 2-25 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 (h t t p : / / w w w . n z o n e . c o m /
h t t p : / / w w w . n z o n e . c o m /
h t t p : / / w w w . n z o n e . c o m /
h t t p : / / w w w . n z o n e . c o m /
h t t p : / / w w w . n z o n e . c o m /
o b j e c t / n z o n e _ s l i _ c e r t i f i e d . h t m l
o b j e c t / n z o n e _ s l i _ c e r t i f i e d . h t m l
o b j e c t / n z o n e _ s l i _ c e r t i f i e d . h t m l
o b j e c t / n z o n e _ s l i _ c e r t i f i e d . h t m l
o b j e c t / n z o n e _ s l i _ c e r t i f i e d . h t m l) for the latest certified
graphics card list.
6.1.2
6.1.2
6.1.2
6.1.2
6.1.2
ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards
ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards
ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards
ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards
ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards
Use only ASUS certified PCI Express x16 SLI graphics cards to ensure
optimum peformance.
V e n d o r
V e n d o r
V e n d o r
V e n d o r
V e n d o r
M o d e l N u m b e r
M o d e l N u m b e r
M o d e l N u m b e r
M o d e l N u m b e r
M o d e l N u m b e r
ASUS
Extreme N6800Ultra (EN6800Ultra)
BFG
BFGO68256UX
eVGA
256-P2-N377-AX/BX
Gainward
PowerPack! Ultra/2600 PCX “Golden Sample”
Gigabyte
GV-NX68U256D-B
Leadtek
WinFast PX6800 Ultra
MSI
MS-8974
XFX/Pine
XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra
G e F o r c e 6 8 0 0 U l t r a m o d e l s
G e F o r c e 6 8 0 0 U l t r a m o d e l s
G e F o r c e 6 8 0 0 U l t r a m o d e l s
G e F o r c e 6 8 0 0 U l t r a m o d e l s
G e F o r c e 6 8 0 0 U l t r a m o d e l s