Lol, using 2 cards from different manufacturers in SLI is a disaster waiting to happen.
Yeah, on paper it can work but given the…ahem, “Storm” that Nvidia had, namely the major suppliers outside of Nvidia selling their founders, they might not be the best choice to mix and match different brand GPUs. If it works, cool but that’s like mixing RAM.
Then again, weird crap has happened before and works just fine. So hopefully this all works out and in all honesty, having two 3070s sounds like overkill but hey, if someone play something else asides WoW, then obviously more power to them. I know I’m waiting on getting my new GPU to replace my GTX 1050ti but you know, scalpers… Maybe I’ll get lucky with AMD’s given they’ll be cheaper and are proving to be a lot more worthwhile.
Best case scenario is that it’s a little sub-optimal. Worst case scenario is that it simply won’t work. You’re lucky to even have 1 3070 btw lol.
even if “sub-optimal” sub-optimal is higher performing than a single card as in my case here, from 70-90 fps to 120+fps@4k. That is what dx12 sli support can do 
it even lets you run a nvidia and amd card together if you wanted 
but yeah having 2 sets of different display drivers can be a headache and may cause system issues… So any 2 same mfg cards that use the exact same drivers works fine with zero issues, it’s actually a method that Nvidia is ok with, when they dropped SLI/NVLink from the lower model cards since the 20 series and even more with the 30 series, they specified stated it’s because it is up to the game developers if they want to support it or not with the new DX12 standards, and apparently that is what Blizzard decided to do.
and in my case, regardless if different manufacturers of cards, they are the same chipset (both 3070), but even if they weren’t, to the PC/DX12 they are fine. No issues running two diff cards since that’s how DX 12 support for it is programed and they run off the same exact nvidia display driver and both setup in the nvidia control panel.
I wanted a 3090, or at least a 3080, but those I couldn’t get my hands on one so had to settle for two 3070s for now until stock picks up.
Laughs at others possible failures. Says oodles about you.
The cabels you monster. Why would you leave them laying around like that you are making me want to plug them all in nice and tidy.
yeah no way i would leave like that xD the cables in the picture are even running through where one of the case fans go xD just was testing out the new graphic cards and SLI before i wire everything in permanently.
Yeah I know, you said as much but… the image… my compulsion I can’t resist. I have to plug them all in and tidy it up I can’t resist. But I can’t do it because it’s a picture. So it just makes you a monster for teasing me with such a image.
I run DX11 Legacy
it use to be this messy and untidy:
https://i.imgur.com/EqgZlaY.jpg
Best announcement would be to SCRAP SL…
why o.O? older pc?
Oooo prettyyy. When do I get to take this? Actually that looks like my box… -.- You been snooping at my pc?
why would you want to scrap SL? do you want to keep playing BFA? Even if Shadowlands arrives all bugged out and broken and classes unbalanced, at least it won’t be Battle For Azeroth.
Because a lot of people on the forums don’t put a lot of thought into what they say. They just want to complain.
I thought with the new cards only the 3090 supported SLI?
that’s hardware NvLink, where the GPUs communicate through a highspeed bus. So yeah only the 3090 has support for that… However with DX12 SLI, the communication between the GPUs is performed through the system/PCI-Express bus. So that means you can still SLI with graphic cards which do not have hardware sli or nvlink bridge support built-in.
The benefit of Nvidia’s past SLI bridge or current NvLink, is that it’s higher performance, as it allows the GPUs to communicate with eachother without sharing the the same PCI-Express lanes to communicate between GPUs while still having to processing graphics data and communicating with the system, etc through those same lanes.
However when you take into consideration, that the majority of graphic cards don’t really saturate the available PCI-Express 3.0 bandwidth, and definitely not the newer PCI-Express 4.0 bandwidth, performing SLI through the PCI Bus (unless you’re running current bleeding edge cards (the 3090s), any performance loss over using a hardware bridge (sli or nvlink) probably is negligible with pci-express 3.0 to no difference with 4.0 as the extra communication between the cards wont come anywhere near saturating the available communication bandwidth.
And you really really thinks SL is going to be any different just recycled old content they have not a clue what they’re doing.
firstly, not sure what Shadowlands being good or not has to do with this topic. it’s way off topic or you posted in the wrong thread. This thread is about SLI and graphic features, not expansion story/gameplay systems.
secondly, who cares if SL isn’t different. it wont be BFA and offer new content to do, as BFA is done (no new content to do). Dunno if you played beta, but so far it’s nothing like BFA, sure has convoluted systems and systems to manage those systems (covenant, soulbinds, etc) but gameplay wise, so far it’s been good, the new dungeons, the new raid, and the new quests all have been nice and better than BFA imo.