MSI Fusion AM3

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On this board, can you run SLi properly, just like on a normal SLi board. Or does it have to use specialised drivers?

Just wondering because I have a Q6600 here and the motherboard doesent do SLi (which I want to do on this machine), and needs a memory upgrade and cant justify spending money on 775. So was thinking this mobo, with some ddr3 and an AMD CPU, seeing as it is only for gaming.

Thanks in advance :)
 
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I'm not 100% sure because i know very little about it, but I think I've seen in other posts people say that the Fusion technology just doesn't work well.

Not sure if that means it doesn't do SLI or Crossfire well or if it just doesn't mix cards well.

I'd probably avoid this board though, just to be safe. Unless someone comes along and tells you otherwise.
 
Yes SLi will work, and you will need to use the Lucid drivers which come with the board. But this is Lucid multi-GPU technology, not Nvidia SLi, it works, but not as well as SLi. You should see about ~15% performance lost, but Lucid drivers are still improving, though slowly.
 
Thanks for the replies.

Can you recommend any other SLi boards I could get for AM3 (don't mind second hand), 2GB ram isn't cutting it for some games, but don't want to buy new 775 mobo and ram :(
 
If you definitely want Nvidia SLI, then I suggest against going down the AMD route at the moment. The only boards that properly support SLI on AM3 are nvidia chipset boards that are no longer made. To get hold of one you will have to buy second hand - which means you get no warranty.

The fusion board you listed above does not do SLI - as that is an Nvidia technology, it does Lucid Hydra, and in N-mode you can link two Nvidia graphics cards. But with current drivers the scaling in games is very poor and no rival to Nvidia SLI.

Instead, I would suggest you consider the intel option - a P55 board like this supports both Nvidia SLI and AMD Crossfire, If you pair it with a good CPU like an i3 540 or i5 760 and 4GB DDR3 then you will have a solid gaming system.

Alternatively, upgrade your RAM to 4GB and buy a very fast single graphics card to put in your current motherboard - so you don't need SLI. I say this because a new generation of CPUs and motherboards is going to be released by both Intel and AMD early next year - if you buy and i3/i5 and p55 board now you will miss out on new, faster tech by a few months.
 
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tbh if u want a true SLI system you'll need to get a intel system at the moment, that may change in the future.

personlly i think crossfire scales better than SLI
 
Well the main problem for me at the moment is that the mobo is a terrible overclocker and I don't want to risk wasting more money on 775 after I just bought this memory that my PC killed.
 
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