stalinx20

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sam nelson
well i just watched the nvida vid on the 1080 and sli and they are being a big ****.  cut the bull out of all the fiance talk .   you can run 3 and 4 way sli but with old sli briges with the lower  bandwith or 2 cards with the new beige with the new doubles bandwith. so why not just make us all happy and build a new beige with the double bandwith  . even if you had to add a 3rd tab on the card to do it instead of the two that they come with. so like i said going to wate for the titan and 4/way and brige type that comes out before i buy , and if it's old brige then it's by to nv ida and i go amd..... i will have all the bell and wiles lol or i go where i can get them . see to me it are monny they want us to give them . so see we have the power we all just have to all say the same thing lol

Did you bother to watch any of the videos or read any explanation? NVIDIA clearly explains why they are only officially supporting 2 way SLI for pascal. You can do 6 way SLI if you want but it is up to the game game developers to support it. Assuming you need 2 fingers to support the HB they would have to add 6 more fingers for 4 way SLI. 
 
Nvidia is simply saying if game devs don't want to screw with doing the work for optimizing SLI they will handle if they follow their guidelines. At this time they don't feel there is enough of a performance gain over the 2 way SLI using the HB bridge. 
 
For anyone wanting them here are a few SLI benchmarks: 
https://youtu.be/TQYsl360v1A?t=4m22s
 

Everyone knows game devs could care less about 3x or 4x, for the most part. So we might as well kiss 3x or 4x good bye.

If game developers won't bother with 3 or 4 way SLI compatibility, then Nvidia's stance makes even more sense. Nvidia isn't responsible for a game supporting SLI in any mode. That is up to the game engine and the developers. Nvidia does work with them. Folks can whinge about it all they want. It doesn't change the facts.

stalinx20

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sam nelson
well i just watched the nvida vid on the 1080 and sli and they are being a big ****.  cut the bull out of all the fiance talk .   you can run 3 and 4 way sli but with old sli briges with the lower  bandwith or 2 cards with the new beige with the new doubles bandwith. so why not just make us all happy and build a new beige with the double bandwith  . even if you had to add a 3rd tab on the card to do it instead of the two that they come with. so like i said going to wate for the titan and 4/way and brige type that comes out before i buy , and if it's old brige then it's by to nv ida and i go amd..... i will have all the bell and wiles lol or i go where i can get them . see to me it are monny they want us to give them . so see we have the power we all just have to all say the same thing lol

Did you bother to watch any of the videos or read any explanation? NVIDIA clearly explains why they are only officially supporting 2 way SLI for pascal. You can do 6 way SLI if you want but it is up to the game game developers to support it. Assuming you need 2 fingers to support the HB they would have to add 6 more fingers for 4 way SLI. 
 
Nvidia is simply saying if game devs don't want to screw with doing the work for optimizing SLI they will handle if they follow their guidelines. At this time they don't feel there is enough of a performance gain over the 2 way SLI using the HB bridge. 
 
For anyone wanting them here are a few SLI benchmarks: 
https://youtu.be/TQYsl360v1A?t=4m22s
 

Everyone knows game devs could care less about 3x or 4x, for the most part. So we might as well kiss 3x or 4x good bye.

If game developers won't bother with 3 or 4 way SLI compatibility, then Nvidia's stance makes even more sense. Nvidia isn't responsible for a game supporting SLI in any mode. That is up to the game engine and the developers. Nvidia does work with them. Folks can whinge about it all they want. It doesn't change the facts.

Sajin

The.Imperial
Just wanted to add .02 regarding title - really poorly crafted, I only clicked because of how confused it made me. "Nvidia will only officially support 2 card SLI Configurations". fify
 
Outties

 
Looks like you need to go tell nvidia to fix their control panel too. 

Seriously, your title is click bait. It should read, 'Nvidia to officially support 2-way SLI on GTX 1080'.

HeavyHemi

Sajin

The.Imperial
Just wanted to add .02 regarding title - really poorly crafted, I only clicked because of how confused it made me. "Nvidia will only officially support 2 card SLI Configurations". fify
 
Outties

 
Looks like you need to go tell nvidia to fix their control panel too. 

Seriously, your title is click bait. It should read, 'Nvidia to officially support 2-way SLI on GTX 1080'.

Yeah, better than mine by a bit. Their control panel isn't incorrect, since the 1080 hasn't even been released yet. At the moment, their SLI does support 2+ cards in SLI.
Either clickbait, or just poor reading comprehension/syntax. 

Once again Tom Petersen @ NVIDIA on PCPerspective live episode the other day said with a firmware update it will unlock 3-way and 4-way SLI for those that want it, and they will have the bridges for it. Those that use 3 way and 4 way SLI are the minority, but if you just have to have that 3rd or 4th card they are not going to stop you.
 
Here stop making it an issue it is not. From the Horses mouth.

The control panel isn't incorrect? lol. The control panel is showing two cards in 2-way sli yet it just says SLI. 

Sajin
The control panel isn't incorrect? lol. The control panel is showing two cards in 2-way sli yet it just says SLI. 

There is one driver out, the review driver that nvidia has only given to the reviewers, it is not up anywhere as of yet that I know of. Calm your jets, the card is not out yet, it will be and it should make a ton of people happy.

donta1979
Once again Tom Petersen @ NVIDIA on PCPerspective live episode the other day said with a firmware update it will unlock 3-way and 4-way SLI for those that want it, and they will have the bridges for it. Those that use 3 way and 4 way SLI are the minority, but if you just have to have that 3rd or 4th card they are not going to stop you.
 
Here stop making it an issue it is not. From the Horses mouth.

Nice informative video, thanks for posting something useful Donta,

Sajin
The control panel isn't incorrect? lol. The control panel is showing two cards in 2-way sli yet it just says SLI. 

Indeed, because of course, it wouldn't need to say 2-way as that is the only possible SLI config with two GPU's. So, putting 2-way would be as redundant as your arguments. Whereas with 3 or more GPU's, additional configurations are possible. So the control panel is entirely correct and your usage is wrong as established by Nvidia.

HeavyHemi

Sajin
The control panel isn't incorrect? lol. The control panel is showing two cards in 2-way sli yet it just says SLI. 

Indeed, because of course, it wouldn't need to say 2-way as that is the only possible SLI config with two GPU's. So, putting 2-way would be as redundant as your arguments. Whereas with 3 or more GPU's, additional configurations are possible. So the control panel is entirely correct and your usage is wrong as established by Nvidia.

Maybe to you it doesn't need to say 2-way, but to me it needs to say 2-way because just saying SLI makes it seem like the word SLI means 2-way.