8600 gt 512 mb ver ddr2 Options
shignog
#1 Posted: : Friday, January 25, 2008 3:20:38 PM
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I have a 8600 gt 512 mb ver with dd2 ram and i was thinking of adding another one it because there failry cheap now for sli.  i know this ver of the 8600 gt i dont need a bridge for sli. But i have read that there a 2 models of the 8600 gt 1 with hte number 56 and one with 57 in the serial numbers. Now from what i got from it, that the 56 wont run in sli but the 57 will. I have contacted evga and they said they have never heard of this. Has anyone else heard of this or know anything about it?
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Cantrip
#2 Posted: : Saturday, January 26, 2008 1:14:53 AM
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I think I have both of those cards.  I have the -57 one in a rig.  It has 512 Mb DDR3.  The-56, still in the box, has 512 Mb DDR2.   The DDR3 version has a Molex plug - the 4-pin (like for fans and your HD), not the 6-pin on some of the new beefier power supplies. The DDR2 version does not have a power plug. 

SPECS ON NEWEGG.COM

You need two cards of the same kind, so your second card would need to be the same as the first.  The DDR2 box says it's SLI ready.  Haven't opened it and it still has those two plastic bands around them and I don't have anything to cut them with and it would mean I would have to get up off my couch to go look for a sharp tool.  I'm not even watching TV because the remote is just out of reach on the floor.

If you need me to get up to open the box let me know.  Maybe I'll get the remote at the same time. 

God I'm a lazy fuck.

EDIT:  Click on the two pics and enlarge the ones showing the blowup of the card.  The -57 shows the SLI connection contacts on top.  I don't see any on the -56.   If it is SLI ready as the box says, I don't see how you could connect them.
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shignog
#3 Posted: : Saturday, January 26, 2008 1:28:55 AM
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Well i have read on some of the newegg reviews that the 512 ddr2 one is the one that has the 56 in the serial number, and i have also read that when you are running 2 of them you can only run them seprate and not in sli mode is what alot of people are saying but evga said that you have to get latest drivers and enable in windows the sli. I just dont want to get another card to find out that it wont run in sli.

Edit Send me the 8600 gt 512 ddr2 card and when i figure it out then well both know, but from what i got from the e-mail its more of a software sli instead of a hardware one.
WDF?: I found a hot girl
WDF?: Who lets me
WDF?: Drink
WDF?: Smoke
WDF?: And play video games
WDF?: ALL DAY
shignog: and in the back door?
WDF?: She's back door compatible
WDF?: And it comes enabled by default

WDF?: I need to teach sirus a lesson
WDF?: Oh wait
WDF?: That's called gay
shignog: if there is a girl there its bi
WDF?: lol
WDF?: ok
shignog: so its not so gay
WDF?: Good enough


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