You know - all I keep getting now when i go to ask them a question is an internal error message.
Why is Customer support so Šhit these days?
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You know - all I keep getting now when i go to ask them a question is an internal error message.
Why is Customer support so Šhit these days?
Some news guys...
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Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. However, currently, the drivers for Intel 975x chipset are under testing and will be realized shortly in an undisclosed date. The delay is to make sure that we are realizing the best drivers for your motherboard.
they wont give that driver ;)
I think that is starting to sound promising! i cant wait to see what nvidia is actualy going to do about it, i think there will be a catch in it somewhere:rolleyes:
sent 5 of them from 5 different email addresses
They'll have no choice soon. AMD & ATI together. It's just common sense for Intel / NVidia to align closer with each other. Now that their rivals have forged an alliance. It's all staying ahead in business. That's my thoughts now anyway.
They didn't even reply to mine, but they DID give me a customer feedback survey thing. I was rather critical of Nvidia Support.
Has anyone heard of that law where printer companies can no longer void warranties when the End User uses a different brand of ink? Doesn't this fall under same category, NVidia is forcing EVERYONE to use their chipset when their chipset has NO effect the the use of SLI except in a driver. (Fair Use Act or Competition Act)
When I first saw the title for this thread I thought, " Who is XS Unite and why is he such a pimp!" :toast:
Then I clicked on it. :lol: :slap:
Its a really simple matter to have the driver hacked though isn't it? So I'd assume that until such a time that Nvidia may (or may not) release official driver support you'd only have to go as far as guru3d for your driver fix.
I hear older drivers work just fine, so it seems more like the newer drivers are purposely "locked" against working with intel rather than "not supported". I never thought that drivers for video cards had anything directly do to with the chipset anyway.
-Stigma
I read an article somewhere (trying to find the link again) that said that intel is working with nvidia to release a sli driver for intel mainboards soon.
ditto done
Lee
I did it... kinda pointles in my opinion... won't change anything.
Intel's Bearlake-X (985X) chipset will have 2 full 16x PCI Epress 2.0 (5Ghz vs 2.5Ghz PCI Express).
This would be the ideal chipset for Nvidia to release SLI on. However, I think it is Intel's miskate not to have 3 full lenght PCI Express slots, 2 for GPU and 1 for PPU.
Frankly if they can enable SLI on 16x and 4x in the mobile arena, they can enable SLI on 965 AND 975 chipsets with ease, let alone waiting for Bearlake x. They are ignoring a cash cow, which has to mean that someone is asking for a lot of cash for this to work. My guess is the bandit we all know, Intel.
:(
It's not a pointless exercise, for if we have enough people showering them with this - it may jut dawn on them that it is a good idea.
Maybe Intel is holding Nvidia to ransome?
Of course what nvidia could do then is leak some unofficial drivers via the backdoor, or make the drivers more open (as in very easy to enable SLI on Intel Chipsets) to change than they currently are.
Thanks to all for continued support, lets keep the momentum going.
Mav
Put in a complaint using this:
I'm aware of the current restrictions placed on using SLI technology with Intel chipsets at the software driver level. Please let the consumer choose which combination of hardware they use. If hardware is capable of flexible intregration of components it should be encouraged by the manufacturers. Consumers should be allowed to enjoy their investment however they wish without limitations being artificially forced on them. I understand that components may have engineering limitations on performance etc however Im led to beleive that is not the case with recent Intel chipsets and Nvidia hardware. Microsoft as you will know was found guilty of anticompetetive behaviour by forcing consumers to use Internet explorer when Windows was intalled. Please let me know if you will allow your software people to enable SLI technology for Intel chipsets in future driver releases?
ill try it, email sent:)
The reason Nvidia are not releasing a SLI driver for the 975x now is a marketing thing.
They are waiting for the release of thier 590 chipset from motherboard makers. That would give them a stronger market lead. They are hopeing that we all switch over to a 590 based chipset MotherBoard to get SLI working.
Topboy
With ATI's recent coship with AMD, NVidia will and shall look to Intel more than ever. If NVidia wants to good marketing, they will allow SLI on Crossfire chipsets just so current Conroe users with NVidia cards can buy a 2nd card to run SLI instead of buying an Ati.
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Originally Posted by Kaap
Yes im sure they will, BUT they wont do this before they release thier own 590 chipset first.
I bet we see all the motherboard makers getting the 590 boards out first, then Nvidia realeasing some drivers for crossfire chipset and SLI
done it :D
Done it...
Im amazed at nvidia's quick reply! good work NVIDIA on ur customer service :P
Bad work on your response :'(
Damn it!Quote:
Hello ****,
Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care. SLI is an advanced PCI Express multi-GPU technology and one of the reasons it works so well is because we are able to maintain the SLI specifications so that we may provide the most reliable and fastest multi-GPU solutions on the market. We have received many emails from end users with similar requests. While we may expand our SLI technology to other chipset manufactures in the future, there are no such plans in the near future. There are users who have hacked the drivers and unfortunately, this has resulted in alot of support cases coming in with users running SLI on non-SLI certified technology.
It may pay off to wait a bit after the 590 us released. If Nvidia does not release SLI for other chipsets in order to maintain their stranglehold, then it is not just about sending emails to nvidia it means spreading and educating people about what Nvidia is doing. They are locking down their hardware in software to be extra competitive. This screws the end user in that they have to spend more money on yet another Nvidia product.
Meaning if one has an Intel chipset and buys 2 nvidia video cards with SLI they will need to also get rid of the motherboard and get an nvidia based chipset now as well.
It is likely alot of people do not even know that SLI is possible on chipsets other than Nvidia. If this information were slashdotted (slashdot.org)and dugg (digg.com) There would be more people made aware of this and eventually this would spread to the point where Nvidia has to take action that is appropriate (meaning support non-nvidia chipsets as well) or risk losing a significant amount of a customer base. This would also spur ATI to do the same with Crossfire and as a result of consumer backlash force them into a standardization. This would be much better than the current limited setups we have now.
The trick is putting the word out there on other sites that have high readerships. Once it is slashdotted it is likely to be picked up by all other major tech sites. The caveat is that the consumer discontent must be the focus not the fact that SLI can indeed run on other chipsets. This is a known fact. The consumer discontent is what will make this successful not the technical details.
done, even though it is currently none of my concern :p:
yea, that is true, but how to get it slashdotted?