Will Crossfire work on this board?

[Fidgetmaster]

I have the older Asus Desktop essentio/CG5290 Rampage II gene.....pretty much the watered/down/basic Non-ROG board.....I Know/or thought SLI was "Locked" on factory BIOS but people hacked it etc got that to work etc...The BIOS is also seems to be different than the ROG Version...last/newest BIOS I have is from 02' (1603)

Will crossfire Work maybe, not sure at all....?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

neither SLI nor Crossfire will work on that board without a BIOS hack, details of which I do not have., but found this thread on the ASUS support forum: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20090822001721359&board_id=14&model=CG5290&SLanguage=en-us&page=1

 

[Fidgetmaster]

Well is it just the BIOS/chip locked/related? cause that's bullshit...This must be one of the very few X58 board with SLI/crossfire locked....I need to figure out how to mod/hack it.... Custom/BIOS/chip...etc.