Are you a do-it-yourselfer looking to build the ultimate PC? Here is a step-by-step guide to building an NVIDIA SLI PC and a list of certified NVIDIA SLI-Ready components to get you on your way to an out-of-this world gaming experience.
CERTIFIED NVIDIA SLI-READY COMPONENTS NVIDIA SLI certification ensures a quality user experience by putting each component through a rigorous series of tests including diagnostics, benchmarking, burn in, and card interoperability.
Only components that pass NVIDIA SLI certification can be called "NVIDIA SLI Ready." Be sure to look for the NVIDIA SLI Ready logo when buy components for your NVIDIA SLI PC.
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GEFORCE 6600 LE: These graphics cards do not use the SLI Connector
NOTE: BIOS Update available for NVIDIA nForce® 680i SLI Motherboard “Designed by NVIDIA” and manufactured by EVGA, BFG, Biostar, and ECS. For more information...
* SLI-Ready power supply certification is based on a typical PC configuration. If your PC exceeds this typical configuration, your system may require additional power. The configurations used to test the SLI-Ready power supplies can be found here.
** This is a drive bay power supply that provides additional power for graphics use only. It powers two 6-pin PCI-Express graphics card connectors. This supply is certified for SLI PCs when paired with another standard SLI-Ready power supply from the "All other SLI PC configurations" list above.
* SLI-Ready memory certification ensures compatibility of memory with the rest of the SLI ecosystem components including NVIDIA nForce motherboards, NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, and power supplies. Extensive system regression testing is done to test for overall system stability when SLI-Ready memory modules are used in a PC system.
Memory testing is performed under two different configurations: single-DIMM and dual-DIMM system setup with standard JEDEC memory timings. The dual-DIMM configuration utilizes the entire memory controller data bus. Memories that support EPP are also tested with the optimized profile memory settings without any CPU overclocking (ie. 0% CPU OC setting) in both single and dual-DIMM configurations.
