Turnoz

SLI is like this


if motherboard has the SLI chip, send SLI signal to the drivers saying that you can enable SLI.

(There isn't a signal. im just simplifying.)

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bowman

Drivers recognize hardware, drivers allow SLI enabling. Drivers don't see the hardware they've been specced to recognize, no SLI option.

It's of course possible to hack and piecemeal together something that works on Intel chipsets now (which proves that the chips are useless), but I wouldn't rely on that third party support for my gameplay experience.

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Mmansueto

So is that the way that the 7000 series GPU's would work on intel chipsets, with a simple hack?

RonindeBeatrice

The chips are worth nothing. Nvidia can get away with this because people put up with it.

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jrharvey

Hmmm ATI is looking better every day to me.

Robilar

What is ironic is that I have run SLI on the Asus P5W DH Deluxe...

All I had to do was mod an inf file in the nvidia drivers and it worked fine with a pair of 7900GTX in SLI.

True the board was only 8x8x for card support but the P5W is an all intel chipset board....

zlojack

Wow...total cash-grab.

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pauldovi

I am not a big fan of add on I/O chips. It does nothing more than add latency and heat to your system.

I don't think many people are interested in SLI on Nehalem anyways...

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Chunky_Chimp

The nF200 was only used on 780i. 790i integrated the nF200's functions into the northbridge, which seems to work quite well. Notice that the new chip is called nForce 200 SLI, so it's not just for adding new lanes, it's for enabling SLI (officially anyway, given time someone could probably hack it to make SLI work) since it will be tied to a non-nVidia chipset, unlike the nF200 (then again Skulltrail utilizes a pair of nF100s and they didn't tack SLI to the name even though it was an Intel chipset that used them).

SolShade

Love the upbeat marketing talk. The translation is "We failed to get a Nehalem license in time to release a motherboard for it so we are giving intel these chips so we can still make some money."

These nf200 chips are pretty small so alot fit on a wafer. At 30 bucks a pop they are making a nice profit off them.

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