The quad SLI technology will work on NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI platform and also on intel skulltrail platform . Intel installed on its motherboard D5400XS the nForce 100 chips and it is supplied with SLI- bridge.
Note this bridge in flexible, and this has some advantages and deficiencies. The imposing length of flexible bridge allow the change video card position . From other side, flexible bridge is too long , SLI bridges sold separately have much smaller length.
Realizing this problem, Intel decided to supply in 7 April all motherboards D5400XS with new bridges model, which is based on rigid textolite . The corresponding notice was sent on 21 March.
New rigid SLI- bridge limits the video card arrangement : only first and third slots PCI express x16 can be used in SLI or Quad SLI configuration. The length of new bridge will be also decent.
In any case this could not limit the possibilities of intel D5400XS motherboard . First, 3- way SLI is not supported, so other bridges will not be required for SLI mode . Second, for AMD video cards in crossFire X mode it is possible to use a flexible bridges, which is delivered in package with most graphic card. Related Products :
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