SLI Question with two 8800 GTX BFG

[mixmasteral21]

Hi

I’m thinking about buying an additional 8800 GTX BFG and just wanted to double check that my spec will be cable of running these cards in SLI!?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Abit AW9D-MAX Intel 975X (Socket 775)
OCZ GameXStream 700w SLI ready ATX2 Power Supply


My only concern is the motherboard as I believe it doesn’t officially support SLI?
I looked in the box and it did come with a Dual Graphic link cable so I assume it will be ok?

Can anyone confirm?

Thanks
Alan

 

[Shaye87]

Supports ATI CrossFire™,Supports Nvidia dual Graphics.

 

[Arcane]

You can't run SLI on an Intel chipset board officially, there's been rumours of it happening for months but nothing definite has been announced yet. There were a set of hacked drivers out there that allowed it but they are a very old version (86 .xx). If you want SLI as of now you'll need to get an Nvidia chipset based board, preferably a 680i.

 

[mixmasteral21]

thanks.
I guess the only way would be to change my main board as I would ideally want to use official drivers.

Maybe nvidia will support intel chipsets in the future?