Nice to know my EVGA and Asus LED bridges will work.

Why would anyone not buy a new double width bridge for use with 1080 SLI? After spending ~ $1500 or more on the cards, then throttle them back over $50 for a new bridge? And unless I heard wrong, force some traffic onto the PCI bus instead of getting much faster card-card communication?
 
 

I'll buy one when available. What I have will work until that point.

As I mentioned in another post and in a review by Guru3D the lighted version SLI bridges can and will work at the higher transfer frequency of the HB SLI bridge.

Yes, and I'm not gaming at 5K or with a surround configuration. So the LED bridges will work fine. I'll probably pick up a HB SLI bridge though when they are available.

Zuhl3156
As I mentioned in another post and in a review by Guru3D the lighted version SLI bridges can and will work at the higher transfer frequency of the HB SLI bridge.

I think I remember Tom  (mumble) of nvidia during the pcper livestream showing some slides that had the HB bridge with twice the data bandwidth of the old sli bridges. If I run accross that again, I'll post a link. 
 
edit. the link has already been posted here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO7pfttVAn0
I just watched the beginning of that segment 3 times and its not 100% clear to me if the new HB bridge really can transfer more data than the LED bridge. He did say the HB bridge and LED bridge both work at higher frequency than the old cable bridge. He alluded to more bandwidth on the HB bridge though. Ie double the data lines. I'll admit there was a lot of hand waving just like at the product intro, that left me wondering what it was I just heard. 
 
But I believe what I heard was HB bridge and LED bridge both the same speed. But HB bridge transfers more data at that speed which is important for higher res displays.
 
But I wouldn't bet my next bag of peanuts on what I think I heard.
 
Somewhere though there is a talk that lays out a HB bridge schematically and talks about what the additional data lines of the HB bridge really do for you.
 
 
 

Zuhl3156
As I mentioned in another post and in a review by Guru3D the lighted version SLI bridges can and will work at the higher transfer frequency of the HB SLI bridge.

Not according to this post.

Sajin I don't know how you do it.   :D  You do free work for public knowledge and people give you crap.  smh  lol 

Well this fellow nerd thanks you.  

compuclinic
Sajin I don't know how you do it.   :D  You do free work for public knowledge and people give you crap.  smh  lol 

Well this fellow nerd thanks you.