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when you hear the letters SLI you probably think of grand gaming

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machines that can crush anything

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like GTX 1080 TI SLI four Titans but

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what about the other end of the spectrum just how bad can an SLI gaming machine

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be well once again lonus Tech tips is

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bringing you the answer to a burning question that nobody asked

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below so it all started while we were working on cheapest new egg PC and we

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stumbled across something astonishing hey our graphics card supports SLI and

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we've got two of them so of course we

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immediately set out to build what would end up being the cheapest and almost the

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worst SLI rig possible but the reason

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that we bought two of those GeForce 8400

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GS cards was actually in case one of

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them broke and it's always a good plan when we're ordering super cheap and old

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stuff for videos on on a deadline and sure enough while attempting to test SLI

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one of them broke almost immediately but honestly they weren't actually the worst

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SLI capable cards that NVIDIA ever made

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and if we were going to have to buy more cards anyway we felt like we should

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really go for the worst of the worst I

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mean effectively we were aware that there wouldn't be much difference

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between a turd burger and nail clipping soup and nail clipping soup

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but here at Linus Tech tips we only accept the best of the best or the worst

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of the worst so I present to you hailing from the Year 2006 the NVIDIA GeForce

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7100 GS the worst NVIDIA graphics card

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to ever feature support for

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SLI these things are so freaking

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worthless that it's hard to find one of them let alone two I mean on eBay there

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were a couple available but no matching Pairs and that's ignoring completely

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unreasonable shipping costs even our industry contacts like EVGA and ASUS

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didn't bother holding on to any of these so they had nothing kicking around cuz

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why would they fortunately though we

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have awesome fans and after a Twitter post Matt and Archer Grimes hooked us up

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with these beautiful specimens thanks guys so the

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GeForce 7100 then a card that was

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basically a Rebrand of the worst card on

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the market from the year 2004 the

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GeForce 6200 but now with

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SLI so with a whopping 20 W power draw a

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blistering 350 MHz core clock and 300

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MHz memory clock these things are only

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out computed by the most experienced Abacus users hailed in their time as

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only acceptable for office use and

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anything but sensible we're expecting running these cards in games to be about

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like taking your dad's lawn mower to L man's and he's got a push mower so we

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toss them in our system and huh where's

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the set SLI configuration option I mean

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it says so on the web page SLI maybe it's Windows 10 screwing with our

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drivers but in Windows 7 it it doesn't work either documentation for running

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these guys in SLI is basically a couple

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of jokes about it on Tech forums from 10 years ago and then one German review

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website that did get it to work so there was still hope after some more digging

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we found out that only x58 boards and

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older will work with the SLI drivers so

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Ro walk on then time to oh crap then

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while installing the board on our bench one of the capacitors literally fell off

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its leads so after stealing a similar enough

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one off of another dead motherboard and soldering it on we were back in business

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maybe it still wouldn't work after some

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more digging it turns out that maybe only 32bit versions of Windows will

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support this old of SLI making the 48

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gigs of RAM in our system look a little imba and unnecessary but we decided to

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leave it all in there anyway cuz it looks cool in the end almost hashtag out

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of ideas we blew the dust off of our CD drive burned ourselves a copy of Windows

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XP 32bit and spent about a morning in

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driver compatibility hell until finally

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yes finally we had the Pinnacle of piss

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poor PC performance so first we tried

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out some games using one of the 7100s to

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set a baseline where it performed about

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as well as you'd expect 1 and2 FPS in 3D

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Mark 2006 like 10 in crisis and actually

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a pretty good experience in Halo Combat Evolved and well over 60 frames per

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second in 3D Mark 2001 SE so we were

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hopeful about its performance with SLI

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enabled until well everything crashed

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almost immediately 3D Mark 2001 2006

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Halo crisis and halflife 2 the SLI

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performance of this machine completely exceeded our expectations for how crap

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it would be truly the definition of

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unplayable the only 3D object that wouldn't crash the computer immediately

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was the 3D text screen saver and even

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that had stuttering issues and we aren't

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talking soft crashes here you open a game boom and you'll be reaching for the

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reset switch we tried a bunch of different drivers from

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91.4 all the way up to 307 since we wanted at least one game to

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work so we could compare performance and

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they all immediately died with SLI

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enabled so you might asking yourself then why bother releasing this video at

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all well I guess it's because we learned some things along the way that we felt

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were important to pass along One driver

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support for 11-year-old graphics cards isn't great number two Windows XP isn't

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as good as we all remember it being number three capacitors can fall off old

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motherboards pretty easily then can be fixed pretty easily and finally four

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holy sweet whatever you do

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don't run the 7100 GS in SLI you're

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