Im just curious if Crossfire on 2 * x1600 cards that are xfire ready would work on an nforce4 sli mobo. Ive done plenty of reading and I dont really see anything that'd bar it from working as its a software solution. Anyone tried this yet? Id be interested on feedback... Im doing this as a learning experience as I enjoy playing with new tech etc and this is probably the cheapest way to go about doing it. Thanks in advance!
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Crossfire on Nforce4 SLI?
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vanilla_guerilla
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you keep on hearing noises about this, and there is a legend that you can run sli on an intel crossfire board. the manufacturers have said that crossfire boards will eventually support sli, but not the reverse.
heatlesssun
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There really isn't a hardware reason why SLI and XFire couldn't work on the same motherboard. The reason these multi GPU solutions have come about these days is the PCI Express bus and its massive bandwidth.
nVidia is now big time into chipsets, and while they could make a chipest that's fully compatible with SLI and XFire, I doubt they will for obvious reasons.
You don't need and nForce chipest to do SLI, but nVidia will probably never endorse or certify non nVidia chipests for SLI any time soon. This is simply a company just looking at its bottom line, nothing more. This is the type of thing that kills inovation unfortunately.
A solid motherboard that works with both SLI and XFire would be the bomb in the enthusiant market.
nVidia is now big time into chipsets, and while they could make a chipest that's fully compatible with SLI and XFire, I doubt they will for obvious reasons.
You don't need and nForce chipest to do SLI, but nVidia will probably never endorse or certify non nVidia chipests for SLI any time soon. This is simply a company just looking at its bottom line, nothing more. This is the type of thing that kills inovation unfortunately.
A solid motherboard that works with both SLI and XFire would be the bomb in the enthusiant market.
robberbaron
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heatlesssun said:This is simply a company just looking at its bottom line, nothing more. This is the type of thing that kills inovation unfortunately.
If looking at the bottom line kills innovation, then why are graphics so much better these days while nVidia and ATi are so much richer?
Innovation allows a company to be more profitable in a decently competitive market.