when you hear the letters SLI you probably think of grand gaming
machines that can crush anything
like GTX 1080 TI SLI four Titans but
what about the other end of the spectrum just how bad can an SLI gaming machine
be well once again lonus Tech tips is
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below so it all started while we were working on cheapest new egg PC and we
stumbled across something astonishing hey our graphics card supports SLI and
we've got two of them so of course we
immediately set out to build what would end up being the cheapest and almost the
worst SLI rig possible but the reason
that we bought two of those GeForce 8400
GS cards was actually in case one of
them broke and it's always a good plan when we're ordering super cheap and old
stuff for videos on on a deadline and sure enough while attempting to test SLI
one of them broke almost immediately but honestly they weren't actually the worst
SLI capable cards that NVIDIA ever made
and if we were going to have to buy more cards anyway we felt like we should
really go for the worst of the worst I
mean effectively we were aware that there wouldn't be much difference
between a turd burger and nail clipping soup and nail clipping soup
but here at Linus Tech tips we only accept the best of the best or the worst
of the worst so I present to you hailing from the Year 2006 the NVIDIA GeForce
7100 GS the worst NVIDIA graphics card
to ever feature support for
SLI these things are so freaking
worthless that it's hard to find one of them let alone two I mean on eBay there
were a couple available but no matching Pairs and that's ignoring completely
unreasonable shipping costs even our industry contacts like EVGA and ASUS
didn't bother holding on to any of these so they had nothing kicking around cuz
why would they fortunately though we
have awesome fans and after a Twitter post Matt and Archer Grimes hooked us up
with these beautiful specimens thanks guys so the
GeForce 7100 then a card that was
basically a Rebrand of the worst card on
the market from the year 2004 the
GeForce 6200 but now with
SLI so with a whopping 20 W power draw a
blistering 350 MHz core clock and 300
MHz memory clock these things are only
out computed by the most experienced Abacus users hailed in their time as
only acceptable for office use and
anything but sensible we're expecting running these cards in games to be about
like taking your dad's lawn mower to L man's and he's got a push mower so we
toss them in our system and huh where's
the set SLI configuration option I mean
it says so on the web page SLI maybe it's Windows 10 screwing with our
drivers but in Windows 7 it it doesn't work either documentation for running
these guys in SLI is basically a couple
of jokes about it on Tech forums from 10 years ago and then one German review
website that did get it to work so there was still hope after some more digging
we found out that only x58 boards and
older will work with the SLI drivers so
Ro walk on then time to oh crap then
while installing the board on our bench one of the capacitors literally fell off
its leads so after stealing a similar enough
one off of another dead motherboard and soldering it on we were back in business
maybe it still wouldn't work after some
more digging it turns out that maybe only 32bit versions of Windows will
support this old of SLI making the 48
gigs of RAM in our system look a little imba and unnecessary but we decided to
leave it all in there anyway cuz it looks cool in the end almost hashtag out
of ideas we blew the dust off of our CD drive burned ourselves a copy of Windows
XP 32bit and spent about a morning in
driver compatibility hell until finally
yes finally we had the Pinnacle of piss
poor PC performance so first we tried
out some games using one of the 7100s to
set a baseline where it performed about
as well as you'd expect 1 and2 FPS in 3D
Mark 2006 like 10 in crisis and actually
a pretty good experience in Halo Combat Evolved and well over 60 frames per
second in 3D Mark 2001 SE so we were
hopeful about its performance with SLI
enabled until well everything crashed
almost immediately 3D Mark 2001 2006
Halo crisis and halflife 2 the SLI
performance of this machine completely exceeded our expectations for how crap
it would be truly the definition of
unplayable the only 3D object that wouldn't crash the computer immediately
was the 3D text screen saver and even
that had stuttering issues and we aren't
talking soft crashes here you open a game boom and you'll be reaching for the
reset switch we tried a bunch of different drivers from
91.4 all the way up to 307 since we wanted at least one game to
work so we could compare performance and
they all immediately died with SLI
enabled so you might asking yourself then why bother releasing this video at
all well I guess it's because we learned some things along the way that we felt
were important to pass along One driver
support for 11-year-old graphics cards isn't great number two Windows XP isn't
as good as we all remember it being number three capacitors can fall off old
motherboards pretty easily then can be fixed pretty easily and finally four
holy sweet whatever you do
don't run the 7100 GS in SLI you're
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