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Mixed Vendor GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB SLI Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 28 April 2006 |
Bjorn3D reveals a mixed vendor review on the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB PCIe video card. In November of last year, NVIDIA's ForceWare Release 80 brought mixed vendor support to SLI. This support allows users to run an SLI system with two of the same GPU's from different manufacturers. Some of you might wonder why anyone would ever want to mix vendors when setting up an SLI rig. Well, the truth is there are a lot of gamers out there who save up to buy one card to install on their SLI motherboard and then stumble upon a good deal for another one from a different manufacturer later. Rather than having to sell one of the cards to buy a new one from the other manufacturer, they can just use them together.
 Mixed Vendor GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB SLI Review
We actually have received questions recently about mixed vendor support, so we hope this article will be helpful to some of you. Although NVIDIA has supported it for over five months, many users either aren't aware of mixed vendor support, or they just don't understand it. The main purpose of this article initially was to show the GeForce 7900 GTX SLI performance, but since we didn't have a matching pair of GeForce 7900 GTX's, we had to utilize a mixed pair. This allows us to also cover mixed vendor support at the same time.
While our test system and the chosen benchmarks didn't help present the most impressive picture of the GeForce 7900 GTX SLI, we were at least able to show that mixed vendor SLI works just fine. So, hopefully now, some of you won't have reservations about mixing cards from the different manufacturers in an SLI system. Just remember that the GPU's must match, and you have to use ForceWare 81.94 or later.
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