I have a PNY GTX 285 that I am connecting to a Nvidia Stock GTX 285 that came with my Dell XPS 730X. My question is what type of SLI bridge do I need. The cards are very close and does it matter if I just buy the Nvidia connector? will it work? I am not sure why the cards do not come with one.
The SLI bridge connector comes with the motherboard, not the graphics card. It's the motherboard that determines the spacing of the PCI-Express (x16/x8) slots. (They could be one slot apart, two slots apart, three slots apart, etc.) That said, a flexible SLI bridge that uses a ribbon cable between the connectors should work for you. The first few SLI bridge connectors I got had two connectors soldered to either end of a printed circuit board .
