Asus Maximus - SLi?

[simmonz]

Hey all,

Does the Asus Maximus DDR2 board support SLi or only crossfire?

I ask because i wouldnt mind adding asecond 8800GTX at some point or other

 

[Deluxe1]

Crossfire only.

 

[hterag]

There have been rumours about X38 getting SLi support for a while, I don't see why nVidia don't just allow it. What's supporting one more chipset, in terms of work? Compared to the extra money they'd make from one of the most popular chipsets suddenly gaining SLi support.

Personally, I don't think it'll happen "officially", but there was also talk of some sort of hacked driver a while back. It'd be nice to see that succeed, chances are they'd always be a long way behind nVidia and the hacked driver would be long out of date by the time it's released. :S

 

[Typhoon]

There have been rumours about X38 getting SLi support for a while, I don't see why nVidia don't just allow it. What's supporting one more chipset, in terms of work? Compared to the extra money they'd make from one of the most popular chipsets suddenly gaining SLi support.

Probably because Nvidia want sell Nvidia chipsets. Why else would you pay that kind of money for a Striker II MB?

 

[hterag]

Probably because Nvidia want sell Nvidia chipsets. Why else would you pay that kind of money for a Striker II MB?

Yeah but, on average, what costs the most? A graphics card worth SLi'ing or a chip or three on the motherboard? I know they want to sell chipsets, but they'd sell so much more *product* if they allowed SLi on other chipsets. Just look at Crossfire, the AMD chipsets aren't all that popular, but Crossfire has a larger potential userbase because it's possible on Intel chipsets.

I know at the moment the nVidia chipsets' main selling point seems to be the ability to use SLi, but I think they should just forget chipsets for this generation. Allow SLi on other chipsets then use the extra money to invest in making the nforce 790/880 much much better and see if they can pull back some customers with a much more stable, compatible and overclockable chipset with things like ESA and hybrid SLi etc.

 

[Typhoon]

Yeah but, on average, what costs the most? A graphics card worth SLi'ing or a chip or three on the motherboard? I know they want to sell chipsets, but they'd sell so much more *product* if they allowed SLi on other chipsets. Just look at Crossfire, the AMD chipsets aren't all that popular, but Crossfire has a larger potential userbase because it's possible on Intel chipsets.

I know at the moment the nVidia chipsets' main selling point seems to be the ability to use SLi, but I think they should just forget chipsets for this generation. Allow SLi on other chipsets then use the extra money to invest in making the nforce 790/880 much much better and see if they can pull back some customers with a much more stable, compatible and overclockable chipset with things like ESA and hybrid SLi etc.

I'm sure nVidia's number crunchers have done the sums and figured what will bring them the most money in the long run.