GX2 - Hmmmm....

Phrik

Phrik

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My question may sound stupid and so on but I never had any of these GX2s video cards, but here it is...

Do you require to have nForce motherboard to have the GX2 go SLI, and I mean just 1 card, not dual GX2, just 1 GX2 card ? Can SLI be turned on a GX2 with an Intel chipset based motherboard, or an nForce-based motherboard that only have those single PCIe X16 lanes like mATX motherboards.

Thanks for any info, cheers !

PS: Yes, I did google but not much of an answer found. That's why I'm asking from the experienced folks here.
 
for a single gx2 you do NOT need a sli mobo but if you want to put two gx2 cards you NEED a sli mobo.

Hope this clears some things up!
 
No you do not require an nForce motherboard, but u also cant use the AMD 780G platform (I am sure you already know that).Any Intel chipset based motherboard will work as well. The GX2 has SLi already enabled through the PCB and with the drivers installed, will show 2x 8800GTS 512MB cores in the hardware manager...so you do have to change anything to see 2 cores for the GX2
 
SFaznSpEEdSTeR said:
so you do have to change anything to see 2 cores for the GX2
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Do or don't ? Just want to clarify...

Either ways, this is good news ! SLI on an Intel chipset based motherboard. I was thinking of moving to dual 9800GTX but the cost-to-performance ratio of SLI 9800GTX against an 9800GX2 is just a waste of money ! I'm planning on making a portable/mini gaming rig, and was going for mATX Intel chipset based motherboard. It's a plan for the near future, when DDR3 is cheaper for one and when there's a nice known overclockable stable mATX Intel based motherboard.

Thanks for the info ! If you have anything that you know about mATX mobos that do DDR3 and is Intel based chipsets, or some kind of mATX version of X48 or P45, or something like that, please let me know. Cheers !
 
The whole purpose of the 9800x2 was to get people with non-SLI boards using SLI technology.
 
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