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No SLI on Conroe, Crossfire be thy choice
« on: June 27, 2006, 01:40:12 PM »
Boy crixx your world must be turning upside down and inside out... PRESSURE:
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Intel blocks Nvidia from running SLI on Conroe platforms

Prefers ATI, it seems


By Fuad Abazovic: Tuesday 27 June 2006, 14:08

WE GOT some interesting input on Intel not supporting SLI on its Conroe-supporting motherboards. Up until now, we, and our, sources have blamed it all on Nvidia but it turns out we might be wrong about that.
There is a big chance that Intel doesn't want to allow Nvidia to run SLI, as it doesn't want to make a big thing about SLI on its own Conroe machines.

Intel is in the bed with ATI and signed a cross-licensing agreement quite some time ago, the upshot of which is that it officially supports ATI's Crossfire on Intel 975/965 boards. We hear that Intel doesn’t want to let Nvidia's SLI to run on its boards, at least not officially.

There will no-doubt be a leaked driver that will allow such a scenario, but even if the high-end tweakers society might be happy about it, none of the system integrators or OEMs will make such a machine as the driver would never be official and WHQL.

It is a funny old game but we will try to get to the bottom of it. µ

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No SLI on Conroe, Crossfire be thy choice
« on: June 27, 2006, 01:40:12 PM »

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Re: No SLI on Conroe, Crossfire be thy choice
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 02:12:49 PM »
  no ''official'' support , but on any intel mobo with 2  PCI-E x16 slots sli can be made possible..   The 965 chipset has 20 lanes availble , 16x to the main slot and 4x to the secondary, but they can probably be re-routed using bios or driver hacks to 10x/x10x.. or even if your left with 4x on the 2nd slot ,thats as fast as AGP 4x... Good enough for most  cards without too much of a hit... but i wouldn't put a 7950GX there.
   
    Gigabyte's high end 965 board INCLUDES an SLI bridge ..  though the board will cost around 250 US ..
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3745&s=2
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This little SLI bridge seems a little out of place. What more, Gigabyte even offered a bracket to hold the SLI bridge in place during operation. Looks like Gigabyte is aiming for the hardcore g33ks who run hacked SLI drivers for day to day operation.

   
The high end 975x  may also be able to hack to support SLI.. nvidia has made SLI open ended enough to make it happen. Also nvidia IS making its own sli chipset for conroe.. check it out at www.anandtech.com 
http://freetrinipoetry.blogspot.com/

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Re: No SLI on Conroe, Crossfire be thy choice
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 02:12:49 PM »

 


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