NVIDIA SLI support on my MSI DKA790GX Board ?

I own the MSI DKA 790GX M/b, AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE, and Two MSI N250GTS 2D1G PCI-e video cards windows 7 pro 64bit. I want to install second Video card. Will This AMD chipset support NVidia SLI using the ATI Crossfire bridge adapter that ships with the motherboard? I cant find any info anywhere that says that the SLI Bridge connector is universal fit for NVida/ATI boards? IF i need a special NVidia SLI bridge connector where do i get this?
I am new to SLI and any help would be appreciated.
GigaByte69

No you can't use CrossFire bridge on NVIDIA VGA cards. No you can't use any NVIDIA cards in SLI on that MB. Yes you need ATI VGA cards for CrossFire on that MB. If you would have read the MB specifications you would have known this before purchasing the parts.
SLI    N/A
3-way SLI    N/A
Hybrid SLI    N/A
CrossFire    Y
Hybrid CrossFire    Y
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodmbspec&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&cat3_no=&prod_no=1625

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*Update*
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Pat,
I have checked the NVBug Database and although there has been Bugs submitted where a MSI Master2-Far motherboard was used, none of the issues were caused by the motherboard. They just happened to have a MSI Master2-Far motherboard.
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OK I completed my tests and got some interesting results.
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Ok,
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Pat,
Maybe the system info will shed some light.
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Customer (Pat Miller) 02/02/2007 05:19 PM
I completely uninstalled my old ATI and Nvidia drivers. I went into safe mode and ran Driver Cleaner also. I freshly installed the new Nvidia driver and I still have low performance.
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Response (GL) 02/01/2007 06:00 PM
Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care
There should not be any performance drop browsing the internet or moving windows across screens.
Since you did have an ATI card installed, you may want to verify that all files have been removed.
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http://www.spec.org/gpc/downloadindex.html
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I uninstalled my old video card (ATI 9600 SE) and uninstalled the drivers for it as well.
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I really have no idea what could be causing this bad performance. Is this how the card works? Did my ATI 9600SE yield better performance for internet browsing than this card does? The only thing I can think of is that the card is not getting enough power because it connects to 2 seperate power cables from the PSU which already power lots of other things (HD's, Disk Drives, Fans).
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http://www.xpcgear.com/500wseepsubl.html
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Hi there, welcome to forum.
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