User Manual

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Chapter 5: Multiple GPU Support
Chapter 5
4. Alignandrmlyinsertthe3-waySLI
®
bridgeconnectortothegoldngerson
each graphics card. Ensure that the
connectorisrmlyinplace.
5. Connect three independent auxiliary
power sources from the power supply
to the three graphics cards separately.
6. ConnectaVGAoraDVIcabletothe
graphics card.
3-way SLI
®
bridge
5.2.5 Enabling the NVIDIA
®
SLI
®
technology
After installing your graphics cards and the device drivers, enable the SLI
®
featureinNVIDIA
®
ControlPanelundertheWindows
®
7 operating system.
Launching the NVIDIA Control Panel
YoucanlaunchtheNVIDIAControlPanelbythefollowingtwomethods:
A. RightclickontheemptyspaceoftheWindows
®
desktop and select NVIDIA Control
Panel.
 TheNVIDIAControlPanelwindowappears(SeeStep
B3).
5.2.4 Installing the device drivers
Refer to the documentation that came with your graphics card package to install the device
drivers.
EnsurethatyourPCIExpressgraphicscarddriversupportstheNVIDIA
®
SLI
®
technology.
DownloadthelatestdriverfromtheNVIDIAwebsiteatwww.nvidia.com.