If you've ever been disappointed that your amazing Quad-SLI setup had to make do with such a bland SLI Bridge then MSI have just the thing for you.
OverKILL3D - MSI GTX 980 Gaming Quad SLI Bridge
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OverKILL3D - MSI GTX 980 Gaming Quad SLI and SLI Bridge
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If you've ever been disappointed that your amazing Quad-SLI setup had to make do with such a bland SLI Bridge then MSI have just the thing for you.
OverKILL3D - MSI GTX 980 Gaming Quad SLI Bridge
They are very aggressive on price dude
And yet, they make the OTT SLI bridge? Mass produced, those backplates would cost less than $0.10 to make, even factoring in design costs, you'd be looking at $1 max per unit in extra cost.
The price is not relevant, it would be something they couldn't say they added to the more expensive cards, people will go for them anyway without backplates plenty of others don't have them. Although it was a huge missed opportunity for yet another dragon.
JR
Dont get me wrong I agree they would have been better with them. But I understant they kept the costs down to undercut other brands because of the lack of the backplate. They cost far more than 10c to produce though
jimma47
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Exceptional aesthetics? Exceptionally fugly! The bridge alone OK, with the fan carriage looks hyper ugly..also sure you'd get better temps by reversing the fan to exhaust the heat, might just be my logic failing.
I think it would be fighting the GPU coolers if it was sucking the air away from them. The idea would be more cooler air forced into the cards, especially the gaps between the cards where they start to cook.
Not sure it would have much benefit in reality as the turbulence would be out of control. I've tried my side case fan as exhaust and as intake and there's not a lot of difference although it should be noted that is a lot further away from the cards so less effective and I only had one card at the time.
I think though that anyone that goes quad high end cards without a custom loop needs to rethink things. Cooling is expensive but for the sake of a few synthetic benches and diminishing returns from 2->3->4 way you'd be crazy not to sacrifice 1 or 2 cards $ for a sweet cooling loop.
Then again this is overkill
Doomslayer
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Exceptional aesthetics? Exceptionally fugly! The bridge alone OK, with the fan carriage looks hyper ugly..
I agree it looks super ugly so IMO another fail on MSI part
I think it stupid using a Triple or Quad SLI and only on air now if someone is spending that kind of money out on a 3 or 4 GPU setup they would just go with Water Cooling not air.
Excalabur50
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What I'd like to know Gov is what did you think of the Motherboard?
Its designed to blow in (only place you see the MSI logo) but I did try it both ways (video was long enough) it made no difference.
Basically if you buy one dont use the fan, buy some waterblocks.
Basically if you buy one dont use the fan, buy some waterblocks.
I don't play many games but of the few I do most of them get considerable performance gains going from 2 > 3 > 4 cards and when trying to run smooth 60fps 4k at ultra settings all of that performance is needed.
SLI and CF support really is quite good, there are a lot of things one Titan X on it's own simply can't do.
JR
motorpsycho
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this absolutely hurt my poverty 
