Intel 975 chipset and SLI??

balth_dire

balth_dire

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I've been searching everywhere for information on whether SLI will, as originally promised, be implemented on Intel's 975 chipset, all I've found are endless references to the licensing issues that have arisen as a result of the "political" tension between Intel and Nvidia. It's a massively tedious and annoying state of affairs, though perhaps not entirely surprising.

I currently own a p5n32-sli with two 7800 cards. Given the choice, I'd prefer a board based on an Intel chipset, due to what I believe will be superior stability (based on experience) and support of future CPUs. The new Gigabyte and Asus 975 boards look appealing enough, though there is no point in my investing unless there is some way, official or otherwise, that I can enable SLI - the last thing I want to do at present is switch to Crossfire, not economically, or physically viable. :rolleyes:

I was wondering if anyone here knew how. :confused:
 
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Thanks for the links, those articles do tell me a little more. However, they still don't directly address the question of how SLI can be enabled on the chipset, if indeed it is currently possible at all.
 
If you plug the cards in the Bios will detect it & let XP know to install the bridge methinks so when you boot back into XP it will bring up the new hardware wizard so then obviously point it to the SLI nvidia driver (although it may even autodetect if your current display drivers are SLI capable).
 
Yes, ideally that's what should happen :)

Though as stated in my original post, and indeed in one of those reviews, It would appear that even though many of the current intel boards are physically capable of running two video cards, only Crossfire will function, whilst SLI is not officially implemented, so unless somebody around here has an "unoffical" solution, I'd rather not go out on a limb.
 
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