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Track   12-08-2006 at 03:13:00 PM

I know that Intel 975X supports CrossFire and ATI hardware, but i also heard that nVidia will make it possible to have SLI on a 975X board.

So on a board like the X975XBX2, will i be able to have SLI as well as CrossFire?

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Xazax310   12-09-2006 at 03:01:35 AM
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So tell me what part of Crossfire supported you dont understand?

I dont mean to be too harsh but to me its just a very very stupid question.
If it supports SLI it would say SLI supported, ATI and nvidia are two very different things assuming you know ATI or Nvidia at all which i dont think you do...

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Heyyou27   12-09-2006 at 03:26:00 AM
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No; you need an Nvidia Nforce motherboard. If anyone tells you it's possible with "hacked drivers", yeah it works if you don't mind unsupported and outdated drivers. (No Geforce 8 series driver to my knowledge)

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sruane   12-09-2006 at 03:42:57 AM
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Quote :

I know that Intel 975X supports CrossFire and ATI hardware, but i also heard that nVidia will make it possible to have SLI on a 975X board.

So on a board like the X975XBX2, will i be able to have SLI as well as CrossFire?



No. Just Crossfire.

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rwaritsdario   12-09-2006 at 06:07:37 AM
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That thing everyones talking about
They wont work with Quad and DX10, but forceware drivers for them will come eventually.

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Track   12-09-2006 at 10:44:07 AM
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No; you need an Nvidia Nforce motherboard. If anyone tells you it's possible with "hacked drivers", yeah it works if you don't mind unsupported and outdated drivers. (No Geforce 8 series driver to my knowledge)



JUST nForce?

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Crashman   12-09-2006 at 11:33:00 AM
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The 975X is designed to support SLI. 975X supports SLI but SLI drivers do not support 975X.

nVidia wrote their drivers to block SLI on anything except nVidia chipsets. They later introduced a driver mod that allowed SLI on ULi chipsets, after nVidia bought ULi.

Some people have hacked the ULi driver mod to allow use of the 975X chipset. nVidia may eventually "relent" and unlock the driver themselves, now that they're getting cozy with Intel.

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rwaritsdario   12-09-2006 at 04:02:05 PM
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The 975X is designed to support SLI. 975X supports SLI but SLI drivers do not support 975X.


Oh, then that is why the hacked drivers perform better on X975 than on P965. Besides the second slot being only x4 of course.

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Track   12-09-2006 at 04:03:24 PM
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But ATI also blocks CrossFire from anything that isnt Intel, or at least from nForce.

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