SLI 8800 on older board

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I was arguing with a friend this morning about boards. I said get an intel 38 chipset it has 2 16x pci slots if you are going to go SLI with the new 8800GT.
He said that there are several reports that say the chip set he has on his Gigabyte P965 board is 16x and 4x and its just as fast.

Ok is this true that he doesn't need 2 16x pci slots to go sli and get all the speed of a board with one 16 and one 4?

Hell I got an old P5B...wish I could upgrade to an x38 and a q6600.

OK forget him Do I have to? ROFL
 
SLI doesn't work on Intel chipsets. Crossfire will work, and I've seen benchmarks on Crossfire on the P965, but that was done using driver trickery to get it to work. The performance of that configuration was a bit below the same testbed using the 975x board.
 
thanks Un4given you cleared that up. He was SHOUTING SLI and thinking crossfire.

I was thinking that the gripes I read on some boards was that Nvidia was disabling it in drivers so you would have to buy a 680I....now I need to go find those post and link him to it.

Too bad I would have loved to do that too.
 
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