IP35 Chio in SLI?

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Hello everyone. I have Asus P5k Platinum mobo with IP35 chipset + 8800GTX. I know that the second PCI-e slot only runs at 8x, but was wondering, since none of the cards can even fill the bandwith of an AGP slot if 8x is not enough to push SLI? Will it be noticably sllower vs 680i? Not even worth it unless I get new mobo?
 
I dont believe Intel chipsets can do SLI, however as far as the bandwidth of the lane, with an 8800GTX, 8x vs 16x was something like under 5% at 2500x1600 resolutions.
 
[RIP]Zeus;1031664950 said:
You need a nVidia chip set to run SLI, or a ATI Chip set to run Crossfire

Intel's chip sets will not run either
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Intel does Crossfire just fine.
 
yea the p35 does crossfire no problem...and technically could do sli if nvidia would modify their drivers to allow for this...which will never happen. I remember in the 6800 days there were some modified drivers that would allow sli to run on all sorts of weird chipsets. pretty much anything with dual pci-e could run sli. But alas I believe nvidia has since filled that hole in their drivers.
 
King_Weaver said:
yea the p35 does crossfire no problem...and technically could do sli if nvidia would modify their drivers to allow for this...which will never happen. I remember in the 6800 days there were some modified drivers that would allow sli to run on all sorts of weird chipsets. pretty much anything with dual pci-e could run sli. But alas I believe nvidia has since filled that hole in their drivers.
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Stupid on their part. They're trying to sell an extra motherboard when they could be selling extra video cards.
 
Mr. K6 said:
Stupid on their part. They're trying to sell an extra motherboard when they could be selling extra video cards.
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Well from a business standpoint it makes sense...I mean if it wasnt for SLi who would buy an nvidia mobo? They dont want to lose a significant portion of there business (selling chipsets). But personally I think they could rememedy this whole situation by allowing sli to run on any dual pci-e platform then actually improve their chipsets so that they can compete instead of just kind of blackmailing sli users into buying their crap, because if they dont then they get no sli. Nvidia has intelligent business people...but it sucks for us and that pisses me off.
 
if i buy an intel processor, i buy an intel based chipset motherboard to go along with it. if that means i dont get to go SLi then fine, i'll keep my money. more than willing to buy a second 8800gt, not so much as to buying a nvidia motherboard just to go sli.
 
I think Nvidia makes more money per video card than motherboard but they do have a chipset business, and they don't want to kill it.

And yes, Intel chipsets do just fine w/ CrossFire which is a big plus for ATI I suppose. X38, P35, P965, 975X etc. all do it just fine.
 
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