Sli Tm And Quad Sli Tm Operation Guide; Graphics Card Setup; Installing Two Sli - ASROCK Fatal1ty 990FX Professional Series User Manual

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2.5 SLI and Quad SLI
This motherboard supports NVIDIA
technology that allows you to install up to three identical PCI Express x16 graphics
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cards. Currently, NVIDIA
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Vista / Vista 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit OS. NVIDIA
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Windows Vista / Vista
procedures in this section.
Requirements
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1. For SLI
graphics cards that are NVIDIA
gy, you should have two identical Quad SLI
that are NVIDIA
2. Make sure that your graphics card driver supports NVIDIA
technology. Download the driver from NVIDIA
(www.nvidia.com).
3. Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at least
the minimum power required by your system. It is recommended
to use NVIDIA
details.

2.5.1 Graphics Card Setup

2.5.1.1 Installing Two SLI

Step 1. Install the identical SLI
because different types of graphics cards will not work together properly.
(Even the GPU chips version shall be the same.) Insert one graphics card
into PCIE2 slot and the other graphics card to PCIE4 slot. Make sure that
the cards are properly seated on the slots.
Step 2. If required, connect the auxiliary power source to the PCI Express
graphics cards.
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Operation Guide
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SLI and Quad SLI
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SLI technology supports Windows
®
Quad SLI
64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit OS only.
technology, you should have two identical SLI
®
certifi ed. For Quad SLI
®
certifi ed.
®
certifi ed PSU. Please refer to NVIDIA
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-Ready Graphics Cards
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-ready graphics cards that are NVIDIA
22
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(Scalable Link Interface)
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XP / XP 64-bit /
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technology support
Please follow the installation
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-ready
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technolo-
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-ready graphics cards
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SLI
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website
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website for
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certifi ed