Possible to link 2 x 7900GS Go's in SLI?

I'm hoping to break out my old 7900GS Go and link it up with a new one, kinda out of curiosity! What exactly is needed to create an SLI link with 2 x 7900GS Go's? Does the laptop motherboard need to have an extra GPU slot, or do both GPU's connect to the same slot using an adapter? Is it also BIOS, driver or motherboard limited?

Btw, any pics of such an SLI configuration in a laptop would help loads, I've been searching all over the net for such pics and can't find any to help me.

Thanks in advance, Hellz

(also, apologies admin for previously bumping an old thread)

 

MoBo must support.

 

The 9400 never had an option for SLI, and the board does not support it.

 

nor does the bios of course..........

you could upgrade your memory though

 

Thanks for the advice, I thought as much. Guessing there's practically no chance of buying just an nForce4 SLI mobo for a laptop too, not the Inspiron 9400. I'm not looking for it to fit, I mean I'll make it fit into something but I'm just curious as to the possibilities of making a custom laptop using an nForce4 SLi mobo (or similar) and using hardware from my 9400 as well as from other laptops.

Was just wondering because if 2 x 7900GS Go in SLI is possible in an Alienware m9700, surely its possible to assemble a 'laptop' using at least its mobo and GPU configuration? (again don't worry about cosmetics, I'm just curious to see if its at all possible and what prices may be like)

 

I'm sure he's aware of that; he was asking about graphics not RAM

 

Youre out of luck my friend.
You should have asked before purchasing that second 7900GS.
Your motherboard supports only one graphics card, as your intel chipset does not support sli. Remeber only nvidia chipsets support SLI. Intel chipsets do not.
You cannot solder an SLI bridge either, cause the quanta version of the 7900GS for your laptop is not an sli ready card. AKA, there is no contact points on the pcb for a sli bridge.
Your out of luck on your laptop modding endeavors. The only thong you can do is upgrade your processor, ram and harddrive.

K-TRON

 

No problem, I appreciate the help K-TRON. In relation to me buying the 7900GS, my old one has been a little dodgy recently and I have been looking for a fully working replacement, which I have coincidentally found yesterday. I tried using my current 7900GS recently and although it has been performing better, it still artifacts often and is prone to BSOD's every so often. I was merely looking to see if such a combination of two 7900GS's would in theory be possible in the future, were I to purchase a new laptop, as I would have two of them lying around in the future.

I had a feeling that my 9400 mobo wouldn't support SLI, especially since there was never an SLI model made of the 9400 or the similar XPS M1710.

Nevertheless thanks for the detailed info, more than what I was looking for. Never knew they had a Quanta version of the 7900GS which wasn't capable of SLI, do Dell pick hardware with such restrictions deliberately? Kinda user-unfriendly, but hey. Just had to ruin my amateur laptop-modding endeavours eh?

 

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