Crossfire boards?

MoNkEyMiKeY · 24 Apr 2006 at 19:03

Im gonna upgrade soon and just needed to know whether crossfire boards alos do SLi with NV cards? Ive not been taking notice of modern tech really and am in the dark abit.

deadeyedic30 · 24 Apr 2006 at 22:45

No. They don't cross license the technology.

ted34 · 24 Apr 2006 at 22:47

There were some plans to do it but it never happened

deadeyedic30 · 24 Apr 2006 at 23:15

Intel may do it so that thier chipset can run a pair of cards. Possibly ATI cards rather than Nvidia.

westpig · 27 Apr 2006 at 16:00

Well,here comes:
The AOpen I975Xa-YDG

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/03/07/aopen_releases_core_duo_to_the_desktop/page6.html

http://www.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/i975Xa-YDG.htm

This mobo does CrossFire & SLI,and even Intel Core Duo/Core Solo CPU (Socket 479 Yonah),I like it!

Mikey1280 · 27 Apr 2006 at 16:45

Is that official or do you have some kind of hacked board/bios?

luminous · 27 Apr 2006 at 22:53

Is there some hacked nvidia driver that`ll make it work? found a review somewhere that had this to say:

This means that the i975Xa-YDG also supports CrossFire, thanks to the presence of two high-speed PCI-E slots. Unfortunately, despite the 975X chipset having the necessary hardware capabilities, it isn't compatible with SLI, because stubborn old Nvidia has locked the driver - boo, hiss! However, given that a pair of Radeon X1900-series cards in CrossFire is faster than a pair of GeForce 7800 GTX 512's in SLI, Nvidia's stubbornness is playing into ATi's hands.

It costs £211 btw!

Dr Who · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:05

Hmm, says it only supports multi displays...

The proof of the pudding will be if the speeds go up running 1 to 2 sli cards

trojan698 · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:40

I can't see there being a great deal of incentive for motherboard makers to accompany both technologies in one board. After all, if you have to buy another board because you thought you'd go SLi but then decided to go crossfire they wont complain if they sell another board will they?
Although you never know, my money's on ASRock if it does happen, you know what they're like!

luminous · 28 Apr 2006 at 02:24

Unfortunately nvidia bought Uli ( i wonder why!) asrock had it in their sights too.I could just see it..a quad sli/xfire am2/conroe for 50 big ones,and still change for a night out

westpig · 28 Apr 2006 at 03:43

luminous said:
Is there some hacked nvidia driver that`ll make it work?

Sure it need some patched special nvidia driver like 78.01.

westpig · 28 Apr 2006 at 03:53

trojan698 said:
I can't see there being a great deal of incentive for motherboard makers to accompany both technologies in one board. After all, if you have to buy another board because you thought you'd go SLi but then decided to go crossfire they wont complain if they sell another board will they?
Although you never know, my money's on ASRock if it does happen, you know what they're like!

The most big point is that this mobo is a 'Mobile on DeskTop',
low power,low noise...but with top speed.
here is the super-pi result this mobo with Merom T7200:

I think this system can be our future,not those super power monster...