ASUS ROG Enthusiast SLI Bridge Features, Layout, and Design
Features
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- Ultra-premium brushed aluminum finish with illuminated ROG logo
- Available in two-, three-, and four-way SLI configurations for extensive compatibility with ASUS and NVIDIA reference graphics card
ROG Enthusiast 3-way SLI Bridge Layout
The top cover of the ROG 3-way SLI Bridge is of an aluminum construction for rigidity with a dark brushed aluminum base and an ROG logo embedded in its center. The ROG logo glows red when powered.
The bottom of the ROG 3-way SLI Bridge resembles a typical 3-way hard NVIDIA-style bridge adapter with 3 sets of SLI bridge connectors. Each set of connectors is spaced to fit cards that are two slots apart. The bottom PCB is held to the top cover via two screws through the PCB.
ASUS also includes an external power cable to illuminate the ROG logo in the case where your cards cannot directly power the SLI bridge LED via the bridge ports. One end plugs into a MOLEX cable from your PSU and the other plugs into a two-pin power port located on the inside of the bridge assembly. The cable is sleeved with black sleeving material to blend in better to the background of your case and board.
SLI Bridge Design
After removing the screws holding the bottom PCB to the top cover, the bridge assembly easily separates into its component parts. The PCB and top plate are connected by a thin power cable for powering the LED in the cover via the PCB bridge connectors. The cable is removable from both parts as well. The LED module for the top plate is held in place via four screws at each of its corners.
With the LED plate removed, the inner side of the top plate is exposed. Upon inspection, you can see that the LED itself is not red. Rather, ASUS embedded a red filter in between the ROG logo cut into the top cover and the LED module.
The LED module is a simple assembly with the illuminated LED portion facing upwards toward the top cover when mounted to the cover plate. The bottom of the LED module contains several small power circuits in close proximity to the 2-pin power connector. The power cable from the bridge PCB plugs into this connector to power the LED.
The top of the bottom PCB resembles a typical NVIDIA-style hard bridge adapter with several additions. The PCB contains two power ports and power circuitry for powering the LED embedded in the top cover.
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The top of the bottom PCB contains two power ports, one for connecting to the LED module in the top panel (labeled ROG) and one for connecting to the external power adapter (labeled EXT). To use the external power adapter, you simply plug in the two-pin connector into the EXT power port and thread the cable through the provided hole to the lower left of the ROG power port.
Is this native advertising or
Is this native advertising or why did you test an SLI bridge?? It’s like testing a USB cable.. You only notice if it’s completely broken.
The SLI bridge was not the
The SLI bridge was not the only thing tested. If you read through the entire article, you would see that a good portion of the article is testing the performance of the GTX 970 cards in SLI.
Thanks…
Little touchy there Morry
Little touchy there Morry
What are you talking about,
What are you talking about, if anybody is touchy it’s you.
Does anyone know when the SLI
Does anyone know when the SLI bridges will actually be available to purchase at normal retail prices? All I’ve been able to find is random units popping up from shady vendors on Ebay or Amazon that mark them up +$100.
Does anyone know when the SLI
Does anyone know when the SLI bridges will actually be available to purchase at normal retail prices? All I’ve been able to find is random units popping up from shady vendors on Ebay or Amazon that mark them up +$100.
I like the sleek and
I like the sleek and simplicity over EVGA ugly ass SLI bridges
I recently got the EVGA 2.0
I recently got the EVGA 2.0 3-way SLI bridge, and though it looks great, it didn’t fit on my triple XS-PC watercooled cards without a bit of modification. The metal plate over the top was hitting the card inlet/outlet ports. It was rather unfortunate. I should probably return it for an ASUS one that would fit a lot easier.
Matter of taste and personal
Matter of taste and personal preferences. I would never, out of my free will, put anything red in my rig. That’s why if I need SLI bridge I will get EVGA not the ASUS.
And I find EVGA bridges more interesting to look at that ASUS. But we are back at the beginning. A matter of taste and personal preferences.
EVGA is obnoxious when it
EVGA is obnoxious when it comes to branding on every piece of EVGA hardware from every direction even more so when lit up.
http://static.evga.com/articles/00919/images/features_slider/SLI_bridge_slides_action_shot.jpg
Asus is just a symbol and you can mod the light to any color
With a 780 sli setup and
With a 780 sli setup and windows 10 with all drivers past 350.12 has a directX error “out of memory” playing battlefield 4. No error with sli disabled. 200 fps with 350.12, compared to 120fps with any driver past 350.12. But windows 10 keeps auto updating me to the newest driver that doesn’t work. 353.30 works great with single card but sli has to be disabled in order for me to play battlefield 4.
Terrible drivers with directX 12 in it.
Morry should try 350.12
Morry should try 350.12 drivers and see if the difference is large.
Morry Thanks for the
Morry Thanks for the article.I have a water cooled 5960x with 2 Sapphire Tri-X R9 290s with EK blocks. My cpu is at 4.4Ghz (44×10) using the Asus Suite III OCing software that sets the bios parameters. With both GPUs stock (1000/1300) my Firestrike scores are Overall: 17042;Graphic 21683;Physics 20,391 and Combined 5986
Overclocking the GPUS to 1125core/1425 mem yields the following: Overall 19099;Graphics 24317; Physics 20938 and combined 6968
Is it me or is multi gpu
Is it me or is multi gpu scaling getting worse i could have sworn that dual sli scaling with Kepler was much higher across the board
SLI bridges are so retro.
SLI bridges are so retro. When will Nvidia follow AMDs lead and eliminate them? Oh wait just one more thing to nickle and dime gamers.
What would suggest?
What would suggest?
Is this a big joke? Who in
Is this a big joke? Who in their right minds would pay 70$ for a little 3$ connector? LOL
Buy a better GPU instead, idiots.
who? they are called
who? they are called ‘enthusiasts’ L:)