3-8 Chapter 3: Software support
3.3 NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology
The motherboard supports the NVIDIA
®
SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface)
technology that allows you to install two identical PCI Express™ x16
graphics cards. Follow the installation procedures in this section.
3.3.1 Requirements
• You should have two identical SLI-ready graphics cards that are
NVIDIA
®
certied.
• Visit the ASUS website (www.asus.com) for a list of qualied
SLI-ready graphics cards for this motherboard.
• Make sure that your graphics card driver supports the NVIDIA SLI
technology. Download the latest driver from the NVIDIA website
(www.nvidia.com).
•
Make sure that your power supply unit (PSU) can provide at
least the minimum power required by your system. See “10. ATX
power connectors” on page 1-34 for details.
• The NVIDIA SLI technology supports Windows
®
XP™ operating
system only.
• Visit the NVIDIA website for the supported 3D applications.
• Visit the NVIDIA zone website (http://www.nzone.com) for the
latest certied graphics card list.