?SLI flat cable to sleeved cables?

[pogitangkad]

Is it possible to make a custom SLI cable using individually sleeved wires? Does it have to be a flat cable? The back of the connectors on my current "stock" SLI bridge show the solder points. It seems like enough space to solder individual cables. Has anybody done this already?

I would really like to route my SLI around the edges of my cards to let the LED's show and also cover the unused SLI connections.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Ive not seen it done but in theory it should work dude - if youre looking for a how to then everyone would be doing it

 

[pogitangkad]

might just have to order an extra SLI cable and give it a go. Is the pinout unique, one-for-one, or mirror/crossover?

I can just not be lazy and ohm it out myself

 

[tinytomlogan]

might just have to order an extra SLI cable and give it a go. Is the pinout unique, one-for-one, or mirror/crossover?

I can just not be lazy and ohm it out myself

No idea - its really not something Ive needed to look into lol

 

[YouWhat]

get a multimeter and then check out the connections, I might get around to doing it some point in next few days if you not already done so, also remember what I said earlier, it will prob be best to use speak cable with it so as not to drag the cards down and out of sync

 

[wassupdoc]

get a multimeter and then check out the connections, I might get around to doing it some point in next few days if you not already done so, also remember what I said earlier, it will prob be best to use speak cable with it so as not to drag the cards down and out of sync

'Speaker cable' is probably the broadest term you could use...

I'd be tempted to use 26 gauge wire dude, and it's easy to pin things out with a multimeter Don't forget to check EVERY pin for each connection though - just incase there are crossed traces, although I doubt there are!

 

[pogitangkad]

the runs are pin to pin. no multiple connections. it is kind of a mirror pinout. if a bottom row pin on #1 connects to a top row pin on #2, then the same bottom pin on #2 will connect to the same top on #1. I assume this is the make the TX/RX pins on the graphics card universal so it doesn't matter if one card is above or below another

 

[wassupdoc]

Did you have a crack yet?

 

[pogitangkad]

still waiting on the SLI connectors to come in the mail. According to tracking, it looks like the wire is going to take a very long time, but I am going to try and use some spare ribbon cable wires at first go. It is hard to find things where I live in South Korea, and shipping takes forever.

 

[pogitangkad]

Found a coworker who wasn't using his SLI cable. Gave him a couple bucks for it. It seems the pinout is a 1 to 1 straight if you look at it like the picture I posted. The resistance between solder points is 0.5 ohms. Time to get some soldering done.

 

[stampedeadam]

I would use some Kynar wire to do this. It's been used in circuit board repair since the beginning of time. It's incredibly thin stuff but will still be thicker than the tracks on the SLI ribbon cable (so will be of a more than sufficient gauge to carry the signal). Also it's available in just about any colour you fancy so if bright orange is your bag:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/2804...3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108