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I just so happen to be one of those people who doesn't have a PCI-E or AGP slot, and I was wondering: can I run two graphics cards in SLI using just PCI slots? I have plenty of those . I have an Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 128 MB of memory. I found another one on Ebay for pretty cheap, but with 256 MB of memory and a slightly overclocked RAMDAC (whatever that means :-?).

First question: Can I put both of those in my computer and run them in SLI?

Second question: With a PCI bus's speed, would it do me any good?

Third question: Does the difference in memory matter?

Sorry to ask so many questions, but I don't exactly know what I'm doing . Anyway, thanks in advance for the advice!

The answer is ABSOLUTELY NO.

SLi only works on a nVidia SLi chipset, you can't just run any two cards in a PCI interface and spread the load over the two cards. It dosn't work like that.

Now if you want more than 2 monitors you can run multiple PCI cards for that purpoise.

Cheers
Cameron

gotcha. i won't do that. i figured it wouldn't hurt to see. thanks for the advice-that was WAY faster than i expected a reply.

i'm here 24/7, so anything you need, you can get.

Cheers
Cameron

a slightly overclocked RAMDAC (whatever that means :-?).

Just for the record, a RAMDAC is a RAM Digital to Analog Convertor.

3 of these change digital signals in the card to analog signals (red, green and blue) to drive the monitor

Jon 8-)

Cool! I've always wondered what that meant. I'll have to write that down or something. Thanks Jon!
Man I love having "connections."

Thanks again everybody.

Stay warm.