Post Pics of your SLI or Crossfire Builds (I know its dead)

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Although SLI and Crossfire is from a bygone era lets play homage to the days where u could add 2, 3, 4, etc cards...

Started my SLI journey with GTX 470s, 670s, 970s and 1070s.

Note: GTX 970s were a recent purchase and didn't buy them on release.

I miss this time... Although SLI was a hit and miss when it worked well it provided a big bump performance and looked pretty cool.
 

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Wow.. blast from the past.. these were 7900gts with some aftermarket air cooling... DFI expert nforce4

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Water cooled 7800 GTX's same DFI expert nf4 board ... topless opteron cpu ..
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Man I loved watercooling these.. so much fun and looked so sweet.
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GTX470's overclocked within a limit of their life.. and performed flawlessly for years... the heat that came out of my Koolance external cooler when I launched a game was insane. lol! Intel x58 platform.
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I had SLI from 6800gt's up until my 980's.. then when I got a 1080 I gave it up. I could run TW3 at 4k on a single card well enough lol.


In related news I found this shirt TODAY! In a tote while cleaning the garage.. crazy timing on this thread.

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Edit. My old 3ghz topless opty..

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0550VPMW legendary for overclocking at the time.

DFI ns4 sli expert board (still have the board)
fsb @ 300
HTT multi @ 3x
CPU muli @ 10x (vcore @ 1.52 + 104% over VID ~=~ 1.52 actual vcore)
DDR @ 166/200 (vdim @ 2.75 w/ cas2.5-3-3-6 1t)
 
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this was my only SLI setup. Built the system in late 2014, Asus Sabertooth Z97, i7 4790K, 16GB Ram, GTX980. Got the second card in early 2017.

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In early 2021 I was going to use these RTX 3080 FTW3's but they forgot to put the SLI tabs on the cards. :(
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revenant said:
Wow.. blast from the past.. these were 7900gts with some aftermarket air cooling... DFI expert nforce4

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Water cooled 7800 GTX's same DFI expert nf4 board ... topless opteron cpu ..
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Man I loved watercooling these.. so much fun and looked so sweet.
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GTX470's overclocked within a limit of their life.. and performed flawlessly for years... the heat that came out of my Koolance external cooler when I launched a game was insane. lol! Intel x58 platform.
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I had SLI from 6800gt's up until my 980's.. then when I got a 1080 I gave it up. I could run TW3 at 4k on a single card well enough lol.


In related news I found this shirt TODAY! In a tote while cleaning the garage.. crazy timing on this thread.

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Edit. My old 3ghz topless opty..
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Those are some sweet builds! My friend had the 6800GT when I first got into PC gaming and I remember it was a beast! Being a poor student with no money during this time I was stuck gaming on a PS2 reading Maximum PC and hoping to build a gaming PC. I miss seeing cold cathode lighting from back in the day... this post bring back old memories. Love that T-shirt! Definitely a throwback.
 
Zepher said:
this was my only SLI setup. Built the system in late 2014, Asus Sabertooth Z97, i7 4790K, 16GB Ram, GTX980. Got the second card in early 2017.

In early 2021 I was going to use these RTX 3080 FTW3's but they forgot to put the SLI tabs on the cards. :(
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Super clean! I love the look of the two 980s together!

Lol@the 3080s... SLI was pretty much dead when the 1000 series cards come out. I remember regretting buying two 1070s shortly after buying them after finding that most new games were no longer supporting SLI.
 
EDIT: psy81 - yeah the 6800GT started it all for me.. I still have one MSI 6800GT here I picked up on ebay cheap for my collection.. Good memories on those cards.. They overclocked like beasts when put on that DFI nf4 lanparty board. wow! When I switched from the MSI mobo I had K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI to the DFI LanParty nF4 DR-SLI I got 6800 Ultra speeds out of them right off the bat.. and they were also my first foray into watercooling. I still have one DangerDen maze4 low profile block too heh.

I found a few more pics...

Here's an SLI build... with voodoo2's! OG SLI FTW! (Scan Line Interleave [3dfx] vs Scalabel Link Interface [nvidia])

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two 6800 Ultras in SLI

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These were the best back in the day.. man the heat coming out of the back of them lol! Significant.

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Another pic with them staged... on a DFI nf4 expert board.


I ran crossfire with these 1900xt's at one point but can't find a photo of them installed. These were LOUD wow...

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Not mine but a dual 6800GT in one card (sli on one pcb) which I always wanted to get but never found one.

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revenant said:
EDIT: psy81 - yeah the 6800GT started it all for me.. I still have one MSI 6800GT here I picked up on ebay cheap for my collection.. Good memories on those cards.. They overclocked like beasts when put on that DFI nf4 lanparty board. wow! When I switched from the MSI mobo I had K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI to the DFI LanParty nF4 DR-SLI I got 6800 Ultra speeds out of them right off the bat.. and they were also my first foray into watercooling. I still have one DangerDen maze4 low profile block too heh.

I found a few more pics...

Here's an SLI build... with voodoo2's! OG SLI FTW! (Scan Line Interleave [3dfx] vs Scalabel Link Interface [nvidia])

two 6800 Ultras in SLI

These were the best back in the day.. man the heat coming out of the back of them lol! Significant.

Another pic with them staged... on a DFI nf4 expert board.

I ran crossfire with these 1900xt's at one point but can't find a photo of them installed. These were LOUD wow...

Not mine but a dual 6800GT in one card (sli on one pcb) which I always wanted to get but never found one.
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Those are some sweet setups! I would have been super envious back in the day if I saw your setup.

My buddy (RS_Surge) gave me his old Ti 4400 when he bought the 6800 and the Ti4400 was actually my first card that got me into PC gaming.

I remember seeing him run the 6800 and being blown away at its performance.... awesome cards!

Kinda bummed they stopped supporting multi-GPU set ups... It was a nice way to flex and I just really liked the look of two or more cards in a PC.
 
revenant said:
Here's an SLI build... with voodoo2's! OG SLI FTW! (Scan Line Interleave [3dfx] vs Scalabel Link Interface [nvidia])

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MSI K7N2 nForce 2 Ultra 400? I have the same exact mobo running one of my retro PCs with a 6800GT in it, 2GB DDR and a 3200+ @ 2.4Ghz.

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Also, this was the last SLi build I had, two eVGA 1080 SC cards running on an X99 platform on a 5960X OCed to 4.625Ghz. At the time of this photo it was 16GB DDR4 Quad channel, later updated to 32GB at 3000Mhz (which was pushing it for Haswell-e IMC). After this, went 2080Ti and was single card ever since. I always loved the look of SLi, and when it worked, it worked good, but I do not miss microstutter or the tweaking involved in some games to even get it to work. SOTTR had a damn near perfect implementation of DX12 mGPU tho and I played that game on this setup then.
 
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III_Slyflyer_III said:
MSI K7N2 nForce 2 Ultra 400? I have the same exact mobo running one of my retro PCs with a 6800GT in it, 2GB DDR and a 3200+ @ 2.4Ghz.

Also, this was the last SLi build I had, two eVGA 1080 SC cards running on an X99 platform on a 5960X OCed to 4.625Ghz. At the time of this photo it was 16GB DDR4 Quad channel, later updated to 32GB at 3000Mhz (which was pushing it for Haswell-e IMC). After this, went 2080Ti and was single card ever since. I always loved the look of SLi, and when it worked, it worked good, but I do not miss microstutter or the tweaking involved in some games to even get it to work. SOTTR had a damn near perfect implementation of DX12 mGPU tho and I played that game on this setup then.
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Yeah the microstutter was annoying in some games I remember disabling SLI in some cases it was too much... But to your point, when it worked and was optimized it was awesome!

I think alot of us stopped running SLI after the 1000 series as there was a clear lack of SLI support in the newer games at that time... I was frustrated watching one of my cards idle and do nothing.

Also, the new SLI Bridge or NV Link was like $100 CAD which I thought was stupid where in the past they gave the SLI ribbon for free.

Based on my experience (which admittedly isn't much), 2009-2014 was a good time for SLI/Crossfire support.
 
III_Slyflyer_III said:
MSI K7N2 nForce 2 Ultra 400? I have the same exact mobo running one of my retro PCs with a 6800GT in it, 2GB DDR and a 3200+ @ 2.4Ghz.

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Also, this was the last SLi build I had, two eVGA 1080 SC cards running on an X99 platform on a 5960X OCed to 4.625Ghz. At the time of this photo it was 16GB DDR4 Quad channel, later updated to 32GB at 3000Mhz (which was pushing it for Haswell-e IMC). After this, went 2080Ti and was single card ever since. I always loved the look of SLi, and when it worked, it worked good, but I do not miss microstutter or the tweaking involved in some games to even get it to work. SOTTR had a damn near perfect implementation of DX12 mGPU tho and I played that game on this setup then.
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Nice.. I put a Gainward ti4800 on mine but still a very fun retro rig.
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Edit. It’s alive!!!
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Forgot about the wallpaper lol
 
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Back in 2012 I had some Xeon 6 core Intel CPU, forgot what it was called along with 12GB of DDR3 RAM along with a pair of GTX 570 I think. SLI support was still good back then but went to shit during 2016, the last time I had a SLI setup was back in 2017 with a pair of GTX 1070 and it was nothing but trouble. It ran considerably worse than a single card and half of the time it would not utilize the second card which made me sell both cards and decided to get a GTX 1080 Ti instead.
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Dude, you even have the same OCZ 400Mhz memory as me on that specific retro rig? LOL. Running mine @ 438MMhz 2.5-2-2-5 @ 1T.

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Lmao. Yeah and we both have Gainward cards on our K7N2's .... Yeah that OCZ with tccd was the shit back in the day.. 2-2-2-5 stock. 400mhz.. my old main rig I did push it harder.. .. it does indeed OC way higher with 2.5 cas and voltage. I had tccd dims until nf4 .. on the brink of ddr2 .. man I had Corsair extreme dimms with the LEDs on them.. they over clocked well too..
EDIT looks like I was running the XMS @ 270 3-3-3-8 2t!

It’s hilarious that cl30 now is fast.. with ddr5. But it is ..

These … ripped
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revenant said:
In related news to this thread, I saw this pop up on TweakTown today.. GTX 295 turns 15! SLI'd GTX 280 on two PCBs sandwich'd together into a single dual slot card.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-295.c239
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I remember wanting this card really bad, I can't believe that was 15 years ago... I had a BFG GTX 275 at that time and replaced with GTX 470s and gave the 275 away to a friend.

Unrelated I saw this article on using multiple GPUs (not SLI) to gain performance: https://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-alm...k-2077-using-multiple-gpus-but-sli-this-aint/
 
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I don't think I have pictures of any of my old SLI rigs. The last SLI setup I ran was with GTX 1080's.
 
I found a couple more...

Dual MSI 6800GTs on that MSI K8N Neo4 Plat mobo

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Dual 8800GTX's on a Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 mobo (a mobo I still have, box and all parts.. it has quad Ethernet ports!).

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Dual 670s on a Gigabyte X58 mobo

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I found a couple more...

Dual MSI 6800GTs on that MSI K8N Neo4 Plat mobo

Dual 8800GTX's on a Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 mobo (a mobo I still have, box and all parts.. it has quad Ethernet ports!).

Dual 670s on a Gigabyte X58 mobo
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Wow, that's a lot of SLI builds! I thought I had a lot with four but I'm clearly out of your league lol

Did you keep all ur PCs?

I have way too many computers at the moment... 4 PCs at my current place (one PC is in parts and not built) and 4 PCs at my parents home. I don't have the heart to sell or get rid of them...
 
psy81 said:
Wow, that's a lot of SLI builds! I thought I had a lot with four but I'm clearly out of your league lol

Did you keep all ur PCs?

I have way too many computers at the moment... 4 PCs at my current place (one PC is in parts and not built) and 4 PCs at my parents home. I don't have the heart to sell or get rid of them...
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lol.. I was a little upgrade nuts back in the SLI days... I have some of the motherboards and some of the cards... not everything.. I would hand me down some of my old systems to a friend and once I refreshed him with my most recent old system I would sell off the gear usually.. but I have still have a bunch of my older nf4 boards and the n680sli a couple of DFI P35s ... old OCZ and Corsair DDR... and a bunch of older gpus... Geforce FX and older cards.. TI4800, 4600, 4200, and geforce3/2 ultra.. I scooped a bunch on ebay cheap a long while back just to save..
 
I had x1600xt x-fire, can't find any pictures of that one.

Had a 280x and 7970 GHz Edition in x-fire, with a FX8320 @4.5GHz(iirc) in a Corsair C70, Talk about a blast furnace. Missing two years of pictures in my backup for some reason, and those are right there.
 
Wow I didn't even know SLI was still supported in the 3000 series, I swear the reviews never even mention that!

Crossfire is truly dead though, right?
 
The only picture I could find of my only SLI setup. GTX 470 on a I5 750.
Sold my Xeon W3520, Radeon 5800 rig to build it. Was worth it for bad company 2 nvidia surround.
 

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Sumanji said:
Wow I didn't even know SLI was still supported in the 3000 series, I swear the reviews never even mention that!

Crossfire is truly dead though, right?
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Technically "SLi" mGPU is supported with the 4000 series, you just don't need the bridge. It just uses the PCIe bus.
 
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Technically "SLi" mGPU is supported with the 4000 series, you just don't need the bridge. It just uses the PCIe bus.
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Is there still good support for the latest games though? Or is it mostly relegated to niche use cases?

I am surprised reviews and benchmarks don't mention this...
 
alxlwson said:
I had x1600xt x-fire, can't find any pictures of that one.

Had a 280x and 7970 GHz Edition in x-fire, with a FX8320 @4.5GHz(iirc) in a Corsair C70, Talk about a blast furnace. Missing two years of pictures in my backup for some reason, and those are right there.
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Those would have been pretty high end systems for its time... I'm sure it was a great space heater too!
 
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Is there still good support for the latest games though? Or is it mostly relegated to niche use cases?

I am surprised reviews and benchmarks don't mention this...
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I do not think any new games support it. I'm sure games that supported mGPU on DX12 previously (like SOTTR) would work just fine, no reason not to as it was baked into the game engine.
 
I found a few more SLI related photos today while poking around in some backups..

MSI 6800GT's pre installation
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post install... my god before RGB there was.. this.. build looks like something out of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory lol.
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MSI gt's - one has an ultra heatsink on it.
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Gigabyte Windforce 7700GTX's
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Oh and OCZ DDR1 TCCD 2-2-2-5 modules I have hanging in my closet lol! I have the set on my K7N2-L also.. Patriot used to have good TCCD modules too.. and Giel.

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revenant said:
I found a few more SLI related photos today while poking around in some backups..

MSI 6800GT's pre installation
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post install... my god before RGB there was.. this.. build looks like something out of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory lol.
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MSI gt's - one has an ultra heatsink on it.
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Gigabyte Windforce 7700GTX's
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Oh and OCZ DDR1 TCCD 2-2-2-5 modules I have hanging in my closet lol! I have the set on my K7N2-L also.. Patriot used to have good TCCD modules too.. and Giel.

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I seriously miss all the UV reactive stuff. Looks way better than RGB shit.

I remember having my Antec LANboy with a DFI nForce4 LANparty board, Athlon 64 3200+, Vantec Tornado 80mm fans and UV cold cathodes with UV reactive zip ties. Damn, those were the days!
 
alxlwson said:
I seriously miss all the UV reactive stuff. Looks way better than RGB shit.
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I still use blacklights in my PCs (four in my current one), but I no longer use UV-reactive cables. I never did get around to using UV-reactive fans or paint. I always said if I ended up doing a custom watercooling setup that I'd have UV-reactive dye in the water (or UV-reactive water tubes). And yyeeaahh, UV shit always did look waaaaaaaay the fuck better than all the RGB crap we have now.

I use Logisys 12" cold cathode UV blacklights, and for years I kept spares to replace dead/dying lights (the lights last about 7-10 years), but now I'm outta spares, and I'm having A LOT of trouble finding replacements. Not really sure where to buy these things anymore. The inverters for these lights are the only things left in my systems that still use Molex connectors for power.

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DFI nForce4 LANparty board
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I miss the UV-reactive slots and brackets on boards like these! The last time I had one was also a DFI LANParty nForce 4 board. I ran my overclocked Opteron 165 on that board (which was both my first 64-bit CPU and my first dual-core CPU, and that board was the first board I ever had with PCI-Express).
 
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