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Step4. Connect a VGA cable or a DVI cable to the monitor connector or the DVI
connector of the graphics card that is inserted to PCIE1 slot.
Step3. Align and insert the ASRock SLI_Bridge_3S Card to the goldfi ngers on
each graphics card. Make sure the ASRock SLI_Bridge_3S Card is fi rmly
in place.
ASRock SLI_Bridge_3S Card
Step2. If required, connect the auxiliary power source to the PCI Express graph-
ics cards.
2.7.1.2 Installing Three SLI
TM
-Ready Graphics Cards
Step 1. Install identical 3-Way SLI
TM
-ready graphics cards that are NVIDIA
®
certi-
fi ed because different types of graphics cards will not work together prop-
erly. (Even the GPU chips version shall be the same.) Each graphics card
should have two goldfi ngers for the 3-Way SLI Bridge connector. Insert
one graphics card into PCIE1 slot, another graphics card to PCIE3 slot,
and the other graphics card to PCIE5 slot. Make sure that the cards are
properly seated on the slots.
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