Gigabyte NVIDIA GV-N730D5-2GI User Manual page 6

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How NVIDIA SLI
If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of an SLI system, the following are required:
- An SLI certiÞ ed motherboard with two/three PCIe x16 slots and correct chipset driver
- An SLI bridge connector or 3-way SLI bridge connector
In an SLI conÞ guration, two/three 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/three x16 PCI Express slots to
scale graphics performance. The picture below shows that two and three graphics cards are linked in parallel
in an SLI conÞ guration.
SLI Confi guration:
SLI bridge connector
(provided by motherboard manufacturer)
3-Way SLI Confi guration:
3-Way SLI bridge connector
(provided by motherboard manufacturer)
NVIDIA Series Graphics Accelerator
TM
(Scalable Link Interface) technology works:
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Two SLI-ready graphics cards
of the same type.
(Example: GV-N28-1GH-B)
Three SLI-ready graphics cards
of the same type.
(Example: GV-N28-1GH-B)