OT : Question on sli certified hardware

[bthacker]

Hi I got in a discussion with a friend the other day and I was wondering if you guys could settle it. He was telling me you need sli ready ram and all the other sli hardware to run sli or what they say is certified to run sli.

Now here is were I thought he was wrong. Told him that all you need is a sli mother board something that has two 16x PCI-E ports, and a power supply that has two 6 or 8 pin PCI-E connecters. And that sli certified ram is just useless, and that it’s a marketing gimmick. And it doesn’t do any better than any other ram out there

Know my question is who is right?

[philbrown23]

sli certified hardware (maybe psu are the exception and motherboards) is basically a marketing scheme to get not so smart people to buy that crap for double the money.

[xMrBunglex]

it's just marketing. it means the company paid Nvidia some money and met the requirements of their certification. there are lots of components out there that meet the requirements that are not "SLI Certified." and i have no idea what SLI Certified RAM even means. pure nonsense.

[zanzabar]

not for ddr3, everything else is a ginic, for ddr3 there is epp and then NV has a propriatary adn sli ddr3 means that a 790i will pickup the epp

other than that its bs

[Lloyd]

not for ddr3, everything else is a ginic, for ddr3 there is epp and then NV has a propriatary adn sli ddr3 means that a 790i will pickup the epp

other than that its bs

Yeah they did the same with ddr2 - SLI/epp (same just differnt name) - i had some and i can say it was just a gimmick! Nothing you couldn't change in the BIOS anyway
SLI RAM is just another set of SPD timmings (built into the RAM), that you can only access with certain mobos - nforce 590 onwards
An SLI certified PSU just means that it has 2x PCI-E connectors and nothing else from what i can tell?