Can I run SLI Graphic card near a motherboard that doesn't hold SLI?

I'm thinking on buying a Graphic Card near SLi, but my motherboard doesn't have SLi. But it support PCI Express Card.



My motherboard is a MSI K8N NEO4-F

Can I run SLI Graphic card near a motherboard that doesn't hold SLI?

If you don't enjoy two slots, how are you going to put 2 cards in in that to run SLI?
your mother board needs to support SLI



check your brochure, or goto MSI website and aske the geeks there
Here's the specification of your motherboard:



NVIDIA (R) nForce4 Chipset

- HyperTransport interconnect to the AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64FX CPU

- HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)

- Supports PCI Express X16/X4/X1 interface

- Two independent SATA controllers, for four drives

- IEEE 802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T

- Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers



You may check the manual or even the box itself. If it have a logo of SLI ready, then its okay.



Probably, you will put Nvidia Graphic cards not ATI Radeon. Because for ATI, they name it ATI Crossfire.
Yes you can. SLI is just a technology that let you combine your 2 nVIDIA graphic cads. It not related to slots for cards.
SLI Technology in reality requires you to have two PCI-EXpress slots running at 16x. So necessarily, motherboards that aren't SLI capable lone has one PCI-Express slot, so that, it's impossible to do that.....
A card that say SLI means you can use it as a single card or you could buy a duet for use in a SLI set up. So dance ahead and buy that SLI capable card. It will work out fine. Now, when you upgrade to an SLI motherboard next, you can just buy an very same card to complete you SLI set up.