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7950GX2 Question

XeNoN89

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Ok, this card is essentially 2 cards stuck together right, so technically its SLI, so am i right in thinking that to use this card properly an nForce board will be needed, or will a P35 or X38 work just fine?
 
I used mine in a non-nforce board with no problems at all.

You should be fine with a P35 or X38 TBH. :)

If you want to confirm that then there are compatibility lists in the NV site i think!

gt
 
its not technically sli, it IS sli :), i had one, and my mate still ha sone, and you cant turn sli off either so its a rite bugga for the games that arnt compatible yet, e.g crysis.
 
I can guarantee it works fine on these boards:

DFI Infinity 975X (Killed 3x)
Asus P5N32-E SLI (Killed 1x, 1x unstable)
Asus Striker Extreme (Killed 1x)
Gigabyte P35 DS3R (great board)

Added my track record with these boards in brackets heh - this wasn't at all due to problems with the 7950GX2 but boards that didn't last very long when pushed hard - but not silly hard i.e. I wasn't trying to run 2volts through the nortbridge or anything like that...
 
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Would it work fine on a GA_P35C_DS3R board? Reason is I am looking at this board or a 7900GTX instead of my 8600GTS since its not compatible with a bunch of games I have.. (or maybe I should say the 8 series drivers is not compatible!).

Cheers
Tom

**Edit** Forgot to say I checked nVidias site and its not mentioned there which is why I am asking you guys!
 
Biohazard said:
Are the cards that problematic? I was looking to get one to replace a 7300GT.

Anyone had one work with an IP35?
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Sorry - the 7950GX2 isn't problematic at all (in my experience) those are as gt_junkie said the motherboards that I've had in the time I've had the 7950GX2

CrabbyCliff said:
its not technically sli, it IS sli , i had one, and my mate still ha sone, and you cant turn sli off either so its a rite bugga for the games that arnt compatible yet, e.g crysis.
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http://aten-hosted.com/images/crysisSLI.jpg

Seen a lot of people say that, but no offense (really), but I think they are just n00bs... works fine for me, with an average 80% framerate gain over singlecard mode...
 
Works fine for me, mobo is an P5W DH Deluxe, which is a crossfire board.

As a side note, crysis works ok for me, but I have to turn everything down, really dont know if it's using sli in that game or not though, some say it does, others say it does'nt, will need to get that sli graph one day and check when I can be bothered to :)
I've seen Crysis being run on 2 8800GTX's at our lan party a few weeks back, and to be honest, it was not a great deal faster.
As to the problamatic question, it runs like a dream. hope that answers your question.

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Oh, so it does use sli in crysis, nice one.
 
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I'm pretty sure the 7950GX2 will work in any reasonably modern chipset, i.e 965 or newer.

It also works in chipsets older than that, but many require a BIOS update in that instance. I had an Asrock 945G board that got a BIOS update just to add 7950GX2 support.
 
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