EVGA Pro SLI Bridges. Faster than ordinary SLI cables?

[WYP]

EVGA claim that their new Pro SLI Bridges offer better performance than the competition and give the best performance at 120+ HZ and 4K + gaming.

Read more on EVGA's new custom SLI cables here.

 

[SuB]

So the 'go faster' chunks work? has this actually been proven? Or is this a lovely pseudo 'benefit'

 

[WYP]

So the 'go faster' chunks work? has this actually been proven? Or is this a lovely pseudo 'benefit'

Nope entirely unproven. I've told Tom to ask for samples, this needs to be proved or debunked.

 

[SuB]

Nope entirely unproven. I've told Tom to ask for samples, this needs to be proved or debunked.

Agreed, would be hilarious to see a 'premium performance' sli connector market pop up out of no where lol

"now with twice as many connectors, and twice as thick traces for extra stabilities"
"It's like SLi for your SLi, we're calling these new connectors SSLi bridges"

 

[tinytomlogan]

Email sent but Im unsure if they will be interested after the SRX review......

 

[SuB]

Email sent but Im unsure if they will be interested after the SRX review......

Lol
Dear Tom,

RE: SSLi connectors

Only if you promise to not debunk them, or tell people they are worse/the same

Yours

EEVGA

 

[JR23]

Well that's never going to happen

JR

 

[Excalabur50]

The only way Tom would be able to review any EVGA product now was if he had a cane and a golden retriever next to him!!!

 

[EasyLover]

Cables are cables! Using Platinum shrouds and adding lights just to look fancy and add more price just don't make any sense. EVGA's claim of better performance using their V2 bridge is something to be proven.

 

[Ghosthud1]

Cables are cables! Using Platinum shrouds and adding lights just to look fancy and add more price just don't make any sense. EVGA's claim of better performance using their V2 bridge is something to be proven.

Try telling that to my manager at PC World

 

[remember300]

Id buy something like that for looks like i did with the dom plats.
They do look nice but even with double connectors... im sure sli was a standard with a set number of pins unless they link up and use the tri sli connections in dual i cant see how it would give a performance bump.

 

[Feronix]

Hmm, thinking about it I have always wondered why adding another, exactly the same card, never gives a 100% performance improvement over one card. There must be a bottleneck somewhere, could be either hardware or software related.

I very much doubt it's the SLI bridge, but I'd gladly be proven wrong in this case. If not though; EVGA, what are you even doing.

 

[EasyLover]

There are users who are more into looks and performance. By the way I'm one of them as well. but again, questions remains!

 

[xnax2802]

Agreed, would be hilarious to see a 'premium performance' sli connector market pop up out of no where lol

"now with twice as many connectors, and twice as thick traces for extra stabilities"
"It's like SLi for your SLi, we're calling these new connectors SSLi bridges"

Gave me a proper laugh

On a serious note; I'm gonna hop on the "they're not gonna do a thing for performance"-wagon, but they do look cool, though, and having a couple of EVGA cards with this bridge on them would look awesome. But I'm sure it ends there.

 

[Dawelio]

and having a couple of EVGA cards

Ohhhh boy.... (Feronix will get it :lol

 

[hmmblah]

I only run one 980, but I think this SLI bridge could increase my frames. Maybe it will make my monitor 4k too?

 

[Dicehunter]

Even better SLI performance ?

Not buying it EVGA.

 

[Dawelio]

and having a couple of EVGA cards

Even better SLI performance ?

Not buying it EVGA.

Hahaha :lol:!

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Unless they call 1-2fps an increase in performance.

 

[shambles1980]

But Think about it.. a properly made sli bridge could increase performance immeasurably..
Lets give them the benifit of the doubt here.. It could be full of transistors and a Flux capacitor. then it can get the info travel back in time and then pass the info on. travel forward in time to get the next bit of info and repeat..

Although i think this could result in slight sli stutter as the fabric of time and space repairs itself at a rate of a multiple of the operation per clock cycle. And it could end up in a hefty power bill. and of course there aren't that many 1.21 Giggawatt psu's available.. BUT i do hear a rumor that evga are starting a line of 1.22 Gigawatt 90% psu's next month