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27th Oct 2005, 12:46
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Pewlius Caesar
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Enthusiast gets SLI to work on i955X
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27th Oct 2005, 13:07
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I fapped to your post!
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good job to thos people!
but about nvidia letting people run Sli on a intel chipset would be foolhardy in a business standpoint as they make major $$$ from their certified nForce4 Sli chipset for the p4 platforms! why should they let others(intel) use their technology(indirectly) if they intended to run it excluslively on their chipset.
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27th Oct 2005, 13:51
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Richard Swinburne
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Downloading 66.72s now, gonna try SLI on Xfire with them
 ATI probably locked it out on their mobo drivers though.
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27th Oct 2005, 13:55
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I'm tired of these companies setting arbitrary barriers for consumers. If I want to run SLI on a motherboard that has 2 PCI-Ex16 slots, then I should be able to. Good job to the Russians, if only NVIDIA would allow this "loophole" on their newest drivers.
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27th Oct 2005, 14:29
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What's a Dremel?
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Quick noob question
 If I bought that mobo, would I be able to run CrossFire on it? "The 0519 BIOS revision for the P5WD2 Premium officially enabled support for ATI's CrossFire technology." Isn't CrossFire only enabled on Radeon chipsets ? Please help me out, because if there CrossFire on this mobo, I gotta have one 
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27th Oct 2005, 14:49
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Richard Swinburne
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I think as a part of ATIs deal with Intel to allow ATI to make chipsets for Intel CPUs, intel is allowed to enable ATI technology on their chipsets. So, yea, with that BIOS on that Asus board Xfire will work.
It's the same with NVIDIA and the i975X.
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27th Oct 2005, 16:16
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What's a Dremel?
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Two GeForce 6600 GT's to operate on Asus P5WD2
Well done and very interesting!
I'd like to ask the Russian hardware enthusiast few technical questions. Who might know how can I get in touch with him? Guliver |
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27th Oct 2005, 18:27
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When did I get a custom title!?!
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well is there anyway of cracking the platform check in the nvidia drivers like the kind of crack to disable cheking for the Trusted computing modual in osx?
if so it would be alot more use than another game crack and also if there is any real reason for nvidia not to enable SLI on all boards? they could enable it and say they only support sli on sli "certified" boards for example. It would give them a huge edge over ATI.
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27th Oct 2005, 19:59
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Why not? I own a domain to match.
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Well imo it should be illegal for them to lock out certain hardware configs just because they don't like them; sounds rather monopolistic to me. That said, I can't understand for the life of me why someone would want to put a single graphics card on an Intel system, let alone two, seeing how bad their CPUs perform in gaming relative to an equally-priced AMD counterpart.
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27th Oct 2005, 22:42
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Richard Swinburne
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NVIDIA, and ATI's excuse is that they retain control over what their hardware is used on so you get proper standards that you know will work. It also stops unscrupulous people peddling SLI stuff that may not be SLI. They are absoultely in their right to do so, it's just like Apple lock down the Mac, and how people think of OSX compared to WinXP. If you open it up, it'll end up like WinXP.
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27th Oct 2005, 22:45
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Pewlius Caesar
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Nah, OSX would never be quite that bad...
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27th Oct 2005, 22:58
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i forsee hacked drivers very soon, oh yes.
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