I'm building a Zero Decibel Hackintosh (passively cooled build). I somehow got myself a used 2006 Mac Pro, the first Intel Mac Pro ever built, in it are two of these Nvidia 7300 GT. Miraculously, not only do they have that SLI finger connector, they are PCIE and will work on PCIE3.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1053576/macs/macprogc.html
I bought the 11 year old Mac Pro to scavenge for any genuine Apple parts for decoration, but looking at these two passively cooled crappy Nvidia cards from 2006+ gives me an idea though...
I've already ordered an XFX RX 460 Heatsink Edition to use as my fanless graphic card... (I'm aware of the problem for the card pre-ElCapitan) But now I think that, maybe I can get by with these Nvidia 7300 GT on SLI? These cards are so old that I've read the specs, but I can't really understand them. I'm pretty sure that they will able to display full HD, but I'm not sure how they would stack up to a RX 460 (both option are fanless and take two slots).
I already have a Nvidia SLI card running in my main rig (GTX 690, which is two GTX 680 on a single board) because I'm a sadist. I kind of like my low-TDP hackintosh having SLI as well... But the Nvidia 7300 GT SLI seems dangerously close to whatever this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUot1p7afR8
Should I try using these cards in SLI?
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