P5WDH with SLI

[AceCobra1]

Hi,

I had a look at Asus's website and it looks as though that this is only compatible with the crossfire and not the SLI... any ideas if there are any hacks I can download to make it compatible?

If it doesn't work in sli, I can still plug the card into 1 pci-e slot and it will still display right?

Any suggestions on a decent board which supports core 2 duo, sli and has good overclocking features like this asus board does?

Thx

 

[AceCobra1]

You can't run SLI on a CF board. But you can run a single Nvidia card on that board. Only nforce 4 SLi chipsets will suport SLI.

Why do you want SLI?

The DX10 compatible cards will be out in a couple of months. There is no need to spend the money on an SLi setup right now. Besides SLI isn't realy worth the cost of 2 cards. Unless you are trying to game with full graphics at ungodly resolutions.

I actually have a nForce 4 board... but daft enough, I sold my CPU which is a pentium d and forgot to flash my bios to get it working with a Core 2 processor... put it in and it doesn't boot... I am such a dumba$$!

I don't quite understnad why you said no need to spend money on SLI when DX10 cards out in a couple of months? Doesn't that still make my machine quite powerful?

I am looking to buy a 23" TFT monitor soon so probably would benifit from a SLI setup?

PS. Any idea what this is... I heard it is a hacked driver for the cards to work on SLI when the motherboard don't normally support it so I am seriously considering getting the P5WDH... I was also recommended the P5B both asus boards... any recommendations?

 

[rwaritsdario]

The Abit AW9D-MAX comes with an SLI bridge and the rumor has it that there are SLI hacked drivers for it. I dont know where to get them though.

Unless youre running at higher resolutions than 16x10 SLI will be a total waste. And even in this case itll have a awful $/performance point.

 

[AceCobra1]

The Abit AW9D-MAX comes with an SLI bridge and the rumor has it that there are SLI hacked drivers for it. I dont know where to get them though.

Unless youre running at higher resolutions than 16x10 SLI will be a total waste. And even in this case itll have a awful $/performance point.

Hi,

My asus cards actually came with the SLI bridge... so I have I think 3 bridges inc. one from my MB... I manage to download the hacked SLI driver...

I am not sure what you mean by a high resolution 16 x 10 SLI ?

 

[rwaritsdario]

Missed a comma there "at higher resolutions than 16x10, SLI will be a total waste".

The fact that motherboard comes in with a SLI bridge indicates that the drives are gettable somehow. You just have to find where from. Google *hint*

 

[AceCobra1]

Missed a comma there "at higher resolutions than 16x10, SLI will be a total waste".

The fact that motherboard comes in with a SLI bridge indicates that the drives are gettable somehow. You just have to find where from. Google *hint*

LOL,

Cheers for the help... I got the drivers nudge nudge wink wink 8) 8) 8) 8)

 

[rwaritsdario]

Where from??

 

[AceCobra1]

Where from??

LOL, I thought u got it! I downloaded from:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106212&page=1

I just bought P5WDH deluxe... hopefully that would make my core 2 duo run! I have actually benchmarked my computer which had the following specifications:

Pentium D 805 @ 3.5GHz
1 GB XMS2 Corsair DDR2 RAM
7900GTX SLI
P5ND2 SLI Asus
OCZ 700W PSU
2x DVDRW drives

I got a score of 6500 points i think when I benchmarked... Rather disappointed...

My mate did a benchmark on his 7950GX2 with C2D E6600 @ Stock speed, 2GB of crosair ram, some gigabyte mb and he got 8000 points! I thought my 7900GTX is quicker than a single 7950GX2.... Do u think it might be the ram?

 

[rwaritsdario]

Its possible. All the benchmarking programs use different algorithms to calcute their score so Im not sure, its not like I know much about benchmarking either sry