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SLI and Crossfire on one motherboard.

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    8T8
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    That’s not un-common SLI & Crossfire are only limited by what platforms they run on by the authorised chipsets in the driver.

    Before ULI was bought by NVIDIA they released a patch utility that allowed you to run SLI on their chipsets, VIA did something similar a while back & the very first SLI drivers actually supported some Intel chipsets.

    At the moment ATI officialy support ATI & Intel chipsets for Crossfire (& ATI only support Intel because NVIDIA didn’t as a means to one-up them)

    SLI is officially limited to NVIDIA chipsets.

    The source of the news is here someone is distributing a hacked Forceware 84.43 that’s enables SLI on the Intel i975x, ATI RD580 and ULI 1697 chipsets supposedly.

    It's a neat item for curiosity only though as SLI (& Crossfire) are heavily dependant on driver updates for maintenance and improvements and no-one is going to be cranking out hacked driver updates.

    [However there have been persistent rumours that NVIDIA would support Intel and recently those rumours have become more frequent in that NVIDIA is prepping a future driver that will support Intel chipsets it could be there is no hacked driver and its just a leak of this new official driver]


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