Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal User Manual page 19

Connecting Two Graphics Cards:
Step 1: Observe the steps in "1-6 Installation of Expansion
Cards" on page 16 and install two SLI-ready graphics
cards of the same model to the PCIEX16_1(SLOT2) and
PCIEX16_2(SLOT3) slots.
Step 2: Insert the SLI bridge (the GC-SLICON) to the SLI gold
edge connector on top of both cards. Make sure the
two mini female slots on the bridge connector
securely fit onto the SLI gold edge connetors of both
cards.
Female slots on the bridge connector
Step 3: In order to securely fix the bridge connector be-
tween the two cards, you must install the retention
bracket included with the motherboard and secure
the retention bracket to the chassis back panel with
a screw.
retention bracket
Graphics Card Driver Setting:
Step 1: After installing graphics card driver in operating
system, right-click the NVIDIA icon in your sys-
tem tray and then select NVIDIA Display. The
NVIDIA control panel will appear.
Step 2: Select SLI multi-GPU from the side menu and
then select the Enable SLI multi-GPU checkbox
in the SLI multi-GPU dialog box. System will
restart after you click Apply. Then the SLI
configuration is completed.
Gold edge connector on the top of
graphics card
place this part on the top of
the bridge connector.
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