Dual GTS 450's in SLi. Option does NOT appear in nVidia Control Panel.


  1. Posts : 14
    Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
       #1

    Dual GTS 450's in SLi. Option does NOT appear in nVidia Control Panel.


    Hi, A few days ago, I made a small purchase.
    I bought 2x ZOTAC nVidia GTS 450's and a SLi Bridge connector.

    I've read around that the SLi enable option should be available under the 3D section, with the PhysX configuration, but it's just simply NOT there.

    Even GPU-Z says that SLi is disabled!

    The video cards are installed, I disabled my onboard video from my Motherboard Bios.
    But still, it does not let me SLi those bad boys to squeeze max performance out of my pc.

    What should I do?

    Code:
    Video Card:
    2x http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500187&cm_re=ZOTAC_GTS_450-_-14-500-187-_-Product
    Code:
    SLi Bridge connector:
    http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=10450BD3820&vpn=SLI-12CM&manufacture=ARCTIC%20COOLING
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  2. Posts : 6,879
    Win 7 Ultimate x64
       #2

    For starters you cannot run SLI on an AMD chipset, you need a motherboard with a Nvidia chipset. Short of replacing your motherboard or running a single card, there isn't much you can do other than returning the cards and going with a single card or getting two AMD cards to run in Crossfire if you want dual cards.

    Personally I would return them and go with a single card. For what you paid for those two (or at least the price on Newegg at the moment) you could have got a GTX 470 or HD 6950, either of which performs about the same (or a bit faster in some cases) as 2 GTS 450's in SLI.
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