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a few weeks ago I was sitting in my office reading through a white paper from Nvidia in order to make a video for you guys that would simplify and answer all the crazy questions people had all about the new multi GPU and sli configurations for the 1000 series and DirectX 12 era armed with the white paper I thought this would be an easy task but within an hour - I was collapsed onto my desk contemplating the sheer futility of life since then I have received answers to my multiple horrendously long emails to Nvidia ones that hopefully will allow me to shed some light on what the hell is going on kula masters master case maker five features they're freeform modular system which allows you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours of the link in the video description down below first things first the question that has been hotly debated since the keynote where they announced the GTX 1080 and 1070 is 3 and 4 Way SLI still a thing no not for gaming only specifically overclocking and benchmarking applications like fire strike catzilla etc that's it I'm not even upset I like this move 3 & 4 Way SLI are and have been always such an unjustifiable configuration that telling people very directly not to do it and going even further by not supporting it contributes nothing to in videos bottom line and saves people from lighting their money on fire good guy Nvidia but all of that said and this adds a lot of confusion to the topic you can still play games with three or four graphics cards and you can use the performance of all of them together just not in classic SLI mode this can be done with MDA mode also known as multi display adapter mode or through LD a explicit also known as link display adapter explicit mode two different methods of GPU cooperation that are at least somewhat separate from LD a implicit mode which is what in video we'll be using for SLI it's okay I'll get more into those specifics later it's not that bad but here we go basically game designers can explicitly code any degree of multi GPU support for their games including 3 & 4 way Nvidia solutions but please note that because this responsibility lies with the developers don't expect it to happen much back to the modes which one is best out of the three great question and I can confidently tell you that we don't know yet I don't have enough stuff to test and in asking Nvidia their official response was that they don't have enough data yet and they need more dx12 multi-gpu enabled games notice that part developers probably not doing it much in order to make any sort of qualitative determination which also means that no there will be no benchmarks in this video that will come later but I do have many more interesting things to say so I would I would I would stay so here's what we do know Nvidia's new high bandwidth sli bridge is not required you do need it for 5k gaming and surround gaming but if you have one of those fancy led bridges you're fine for 4k gaming in 2560 by 1440 pea gaming at 120 Hertz you have a standard bridge you take another step down and do 2560 by 1440 P at 60 Hertz and nineteen to twenty by ten eighty gaming yeah Nvidia will automatically notify you that your bridge is not good enough if you try to push it to a setup that is outside of those specifications so I wouldn't worry about it much plug everything in see if it works if it does you're good if it doesn't they'll tell you and you can fix it pretty easily but Luke you lie they were saying things about enthusiast key that would allow us to unlock three and four way stuff that software unlock does not exist Nvidia killed it that was fast and given how clear I've made my position on the merits of greater than two-way SLI it should come as no surprise that I think it's a good thing but I also didn't buy three or four graphics cards already based on a promise that Nvidia made that they would all work together with this thing called enthusiast key I feel like that while a number of customers were impacted by this is probably fairly low these individuals would represent the most die-hard of the diehard Nvidia fans and gaming enthusiasts and they should probably have it made up to them in some way just saying all right but hold up let's take a few steps back how exactly does this MDA and Lda mode thing work well when SLI is disabled in the Nvidia control panel your cards will be running in MDA mode MDA is Microsoft allowing any set of GPUs to be used including Kross brand so theoretically you can use an AMD card and an nvidia card and have them be all over the place in terms of tears and stuff and it should work you can do this all at the same time directx12 new feature named shared fences allows for the synchronized commands to the various GPUs and said GPUs will be able to share a pool of memory which resides in system memories all that kind of stuff is cool when SLI is enabled however your setup will be in Lda mode another Microsoft technology the sub mode Lda implicit allows you to use the sli bridge to transfer display data between GPUs without interference caused from other agents activity on PCIe and should through this clearer communication method allow for additional capabilities by utilizing the bridge but we'll have to wait and see to what the impact is of that while in lda mode if the games are coded to support explicit multi-gpu they will be able to scale however well with the amount of cards you have in the system without using the sli bridge again we'll have to wait to see how well this works but this would theoretically allow you more than two cards and that's basically all we have to work with at the moment we will have to wait and see how MDA and LD a explicit modes handle regular two-way operation compared to traditional SLI and what the three and four way situation ends up looking like so here's the final word if you want to play games with your setup and aren't interested in just re running the same freaking benchmarking programs on the same freakin setup all day you should probably stick with a maximum of two cards and which mode works best will be heavily dependent on the game or application you're using oh and I guess you could run to an SLI and a third for physics if you just really hate your money you you can do that tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet with some of our turned on your Wi-Fi connection is more secure and your online activity is kept private from your internet provider advertisers and those nasty hacker guys anyone else that's trying to track your information and profit off of your data tunnel bear has a top rated privacy policy and does not log your activity try for free with 500 megabytes and no credit card required and if you choose to get unlimited data you can save 10% by going to Tom bear comm flash LTTE thanks for watching guys if you liked this video and like spending your money at least somewhat intelligently hit that 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