EVGA Announces Pro SLI Bridges V2

[btarunr]

EVGA has amped up the bling with the EVGA PRO SLI BRIDGE V2. These redesigned bridges come with several improvements over the previous generation SLI bridges. Not only do these new bridges light up and look great on select graphics cards, they also have a high quality aluminum shroud and are optimized for the next generation display resolution and refresh rates, with a high pixel clock frequency design that gives best performance for 120Hz+ and 4K+ gaming.



Next Generation Features:

• Separate models to support 2-Way (Short), 2-Way (Standard), 3-Way SLI or 4-Way SLI.
• High pixel clock design optimized for 4K+ and 120Hz+ gaming.
• EVGA logo illuminates on select GeForce GTX graphics cards.
• Compatible with all SLI enabled graphics cards.
• Looks super awesome!

Compatibility:
SLI functionality works on all SLI enabled graphics cards. LED functionality works on the following cards:

• All EVGA GTX TITAN graphics cards.
• All EVGA GTX 980 graphics cards.
• Select EVGA GTX 970 graphics cards.
• All EVGA GTX 960 graphics cards.
• All EVGA GTX 780/780 Ti graphics cards.
• Select EVGA GTX 770 graphics cards.

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[The Terrible Puddle]

The first one is odd.

 

[btarunr]

The first one is odd.

It's when you have 0-slot spacing between two dual-slot cards (eg: in micro-ATX systems).

 

[Batou1986]

Did I miss something ?
I'm pretty sure SLI connectors are just bridges with no actual circuits on them so EVGA is talking out their ass as usual when they say "High pixel clock design optimized for 4K+ and 120Hz+ gaming"

I'm sure some fool will buy these and a 1000$ HDMI cable to go with them.

 

[Casecutter]

One company develops them as a profit stream, while the competitor did away with them...

 

[bogami]

Can be donated in addition to their motherboards. And thereby increase sales of their bad motherboard offers. With so little invested in it added some lipstick and an geth additional price increases. Ultra expensive shit boards recently. But will not increase performens, only consumption of the extra power on LEDs. and only with their latest generation GPUs offer will LEDs luminaires . Not to mention the poor supply of such extra and additional customs procedures when purchasing.

 

[nickbaldwin86]

I will take one :0

 

[DeSanta]

Did I miss something ?
I'm pretty sure SLI connectors are just bridges with no actual circuits on them so EVGA is talking out their ass as usual when they say "High pixel clock design optimized for 4K+ and 120Hz+ gaming"

I'm sure some fool will buy these and a 1000$ HDMI cable to go with them.

LOL

 

[Octopuss]

1000$ HDMI cable

Hahahaha that's exactly what instantly came to my mind
But hey, it's perfectly fine to make money off retarded people.

 

[Assimilator]

One company develops them as a profit stream, while the competitor did away with them...

I'm sure nVIDIA's going to close down their graphics card business and start selling only SLI bridges ANY DAY NOW.

 

[fullinfusion]

But hey, it's perfectly fine to make money off retarded people.

More marketing BS imho... the lights would look kewl though

 

[RejZoR]

How exactly do you optimize a proprietary standard beyond NVIDIA specified specs of bunch of wires with no circuitry? That's like saying, we've optimized power cables. They are now ready to accommodate powergrids up to 250V at 50Hz for European market! Yaaaay!

 

[R-T-B]

How exactly do you optimize a proprietary standard beyond NVIDIA specified specs of bunch of wires with no circuitry? That's like saying, we've optimized power cables. They are now ready to accommodate powergrids up to 250V at 50Hz for European market! Yaaaay!

Pretty much.

That said, I could see these looking good if you were case modding or something. But please, don't pretend they do anything other than look pretty over the other cables...

 

[rtwjunkie]

But please, don't pretend they do anything other than look pretty over the other cables...

They would look good with the other card LED lighting though. Whether that justifies the price is another story.

 

[Deadlyraver]

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[ensabrenoir]

.....for modders and makes my case look cool purposes only people...... if we used common sense when it came to our computers this site wouldn't exist and all our pc's would look like this:



....and yeah after spending several hunderd dollars on sli cards.... $30 bucks or so aint too much for a bridge. Would have been nice if it was rgb or we could create our own message though....

 

[ZoneDymo]

bridges for multi videocard setups? how....retro

 

[librin.so.1]

bridges for multi videocard setups? how....retro

Exactly.
It's great how AMD came to their senses and now just use up the ample of available spare PCI-E bandwidth instead.
I bet the only reason Nvidia didn't end up doing the same by now is probably because "hurr durr consumers want to see and feel an actually additional connection between the cards, even if doing that is not really necessary. kappa."

 

[Batou1986]

I found this response from EVGA on their forums quite humorous, when further questioned about the "High pixel clock design" he did not respond.

 

[Chaitanya]

One company develops them as a profit stream, while the competitor did away with them...

Evga was the first manufacturer who started making these LED SLI bridges couple of years back. It went largely unnoticed until recently. Now it seems all the major players want to milk money by making these SLI Bridges.

I'm sure nVIDIA's going to close down their graphics card business and start selling only SLI bridges ANY DAY NOW.

nvidia already makes LED Sli bridges here is a link to those.

 

[Uplink10]

Nvidia should do what AMD did, Crossfire over PCI Express and since PCI Express isn`t fully utilized if you are using PCIe 2.0 x16/PCIe 3.0 x8 just to be on a safe side, performance will not suffer:

 

[Steevo]

Dare I say they know their market well?

 

[Relayer]

Pretty much.

That said, I could see these looking good if you were case modding or something. But please, don't pretend they do anything other than look pretty over the other cables...

But... But... They're made from continuous crystal 100% pure OFC litz wire with teflon dielectric and gold plated conectors.

 

[HumanSmoke]

Nvidia should do what AMD did, Crossfire over PCI Express and since PCI Express isn`t fully utilized if you are using PCIe 2.0 x16/PCIe 3.0 x8 just to be on a safe side, performance will not suffer

Nvidia have an implementation in the works. NVLink will see the light of day with OpenPOWER implementation, and hopefully it gets folded into the PCI-E 4.0 specification rather than the added expense of a dedicated chip and electrical traces.

 

[PLAfiller]

Pro SLI bridge....rly? gotta love that creativity on the general meetings I can see what happened. It was like:

"-Guys we need to create a need for something that has eluded everyday SLI-users. Something they have never thought could be tweaked.

- Ahhh sir, how about "we make a Pro SLI bridge?

- Excellent idea young padwan"

Joke aside, for the bling factor it might be worth it I guess.