SLI or not to SLI for Cycles rendering

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Hello everyone.

I have one simple question…

I do play videogames as much as I render in Cycles.

As you may know, SLI for videogames rocks. But then I read somewhere few months ago that I should disable SLI for rendering in cycles. Why?

Is this really necesesary? Or I can take fulll advantage of both GTX cards in Cycles even if it is in SLI mode.

Thank you in advance.

(I have to reinstall drivers if I switch from SLI to non SLI because of my setup, that is why my question)

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http://www.systemagnostic.com/faqs/how-about-buying-two-card-in-a-sli-setup/

Better performance without SLI. If you want to see the actual difference, test it yourself on your machine.

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Good day Richard. I had tried to test it out myself, but now the problem is that when not on SLI, it only renders with one GPU instead the 4 GPUS, When I select all 4 GPUs, screen goes black and the next message appears on windows: “NVDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, version 337.91 stop responding and recovered succesfully” I can´t figure out the problem yet. Thank you for the links.