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That I cannot say. I'll have to have a look around again. I seem to remember seeing a few SLI set-ups bobbing around.
As my previous link showed though, it's not limited to CPU problems. A guy had 3 GTX480s on an Evga mobo with a 980X (all supported) and has the exact same problem as me.
DM while you do post some good stuff at times(apart from the essays) you just cant help yourself slating NV can you?
How are those AMD shares btw?![]()
Its ATI justification syndrome, do not get angry. Give them love and they may eventually get through it![]()
Skulltrail is based on a workstation chipset with dual Xeon CPU's and SLI so I cant see how CPU naming could be such a major problem.
If you had an IO issue running with the Xeon in that board it would have been quite obvious you had a problem from day one IMO.
SLI also isn't supported down to cpu, its down to chipset, it will detect a chipset not the CPU.
Your not really helping by trolling Stanners.
Just tried that. The only Realtek drivers I had installed were LAN ones. Uninstalled them, restarted and still the same.
Yes its usually the case that detection is done by chipset and GPU device ID pairs... but nVidia have used some odd routines in the past to try and stop people hacking support in, including comparisions against other hardware IDs so its not impossible its the issue here.
Try reinstalling the nvidia drivers again. I cant recall if i did that after I removed realtek, but for me the realtek LAN drivers were the issue.
do a google - realtek & sli option
Each of you mentioned AMD, and how people like one better than another once each, number of times I mentioned AMD or ATI........... zero.
Several people in this thread(the usual suspects) are reaching to find any reason its not an Nvidia driver fault, I linked to Nvidia's forums where a lot of people are having the same problems.
There are people with 260gtx's, 480's, 7800gt's and 8800gtx's in sli that aren't working because of a missing control panel option, the vast majority of them are using standard cpu's and standard chipsets, Intel and I notice 750 and 780 sli boards.
SO I linked to some relevant threads and had a little fun against the "nvidia never ever have driver problems" guys at the same time.
However, again you'll notice EVERY SINGLE TIME drivers come up in these threads I will NEVER say AMD have better drivers, nor Nvidia, just that both have issues and just because a few people haven't had issues with Nvidia and have with AMD, theres another person for each of them that never had issues with AMD and only had trouble with Nvidia.
This is the problem, I don't argue one side, I argue the logical, sensible middle ground, and my views don't sway from one extreme to another over the space of a day.
AMD drivers have issues, I freely admit that, Nvidia drivers have issues aswell, several people in this thread largely refuse to ever admit that.
Thats where your argument fails, one group of people insists one side is perfect the other side is only issues and come into a thread and ignore obvious evidence its a fairly widespread problem and trys to point away from Nvidia drivers, and another guy comes in and says, both have problems, here are a few threads with idea's on how to fix your problem.
Then a few more guys come in and have a go at.......... the wrong guy.