XS Unite to get official SLI drivers for Intel

We just need to report it. I can do it if you want. I have reported a few things to them that usually have gotten posted. This will also bring exposure to XS and all the cool projects here. I will wait for a mod to ok it tho. If a mod says ok I will go ahead and do a write up. Think of it as viral marketing in reverse :P We all want to see a great product in use with no restrictions by the manufacturer that will limit it. Other companies do similar things. MS wont support Crossover cabled networks with ICS because they wont. But at least it is easily possible to still do. I think just enabling the feature will be enough for most since the hardware just works most of the time anyway. Also these type of "odd" configurations are usually done by power users and geeks.

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Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

I understand from your email, that you want to know when the SLI driver for the Intel 975x chipset will be released.

Due to the competitive nature of this business, we are not able to provide any information on rumors or future unannounced NVIDIA software. We can neither confirm nor deny if or when NVIDIA will release drivers that allow SLI on NON NVIDIA chipset's. Once new software and a Formal Press Release from the company has been officially announced, we would be glad to answer questions and provide information. Please note that since its introduction in 2004, SLI Technology is a exclusive function reserved for NVIDIA nForce MCPs only and is marketed and advertised as so.

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_build.html

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any further questions.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care."

Stock replies or what...

I got no reply from 3 emails :(

I had my 7900's working fine on some hacked drivers.
The 7950's will let you enable TRI-SLI.

After the install any quad drivers.
It will disable SLI on a x975.
Go into device manager disable one of the 4 GPU's.
Restart and the option to enable SLI will be open.
Add any SLI bridge (it will work without one)
But TRI-SLI is still better then crosswired

hmmm... It almost sounds like the driver is locking four nVidia GPUs on x975 just to be enoying.

We are sorry that you were not satisfied with your purchase. Although we have received many requests from customers to expand our NVIDIA SLI ecosystem to include non-NVIDIA chipsets, by keeping SLI technology under our :banana: control :slapass: , it allows us to maintain a level of stability and performance that results in the best multi-gpu experience for our customers. There have been hacks in the past for non-NVIDIA chipsets which enabled SLI however this lead to many unhappy customers who reported many stability issues with their system when running non-SLI certified components.

We are always exploring the possibility of expanding SLI support to other chipsets however there are no plans in the near future. As for the Creative Labs X-Fi issue, NVIDIA is still looking into resolving the crackling problem :fact: . We have been able to reproduce this issue on Intel chipset :nono: and ATI chipset motherboards. However we did make some improvements to our PCI latency that should improve high bandwidth PCI devices. Future motherboard BIOS's will have these changes.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care

done :D

the answer:

Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

Sorry for the delayed response.

I understand from your email, that you want to know when NVIDIA will release an SLI driver for the Intel 975x chipset.

Due to the competitive nature of this business, we are not able to provide any information on rumors or future unannounced NVIDIA software. We can neither confirm nor deny if or when NVIDIA will release drivers that allow SLI on NON NVIDIA chipset's. Once new software and a Formal Press Release from the company has been officially announced, we would be glad to answer questions and provide information. Please note that since its introduction in 2004, SLI Technology is a exclusive function reserved for NVIDIA nForce MCPs only and is marketed and advertised as so.

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_build.html

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any further questions.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

"Due to the competitive nature of this business"


Well, they said it themselves... Write a reply saying that you're sorely disappointed in nVidia and that even though you originally liked their product, you'll be switching to ATI and saying many bad things about nVidia to everyone who got a 975 board for C2D.

The SLI market is just beginning to start up, which means it's mostly upper end users that spend the money for it. Being a small market, if we can somehow suggest that their policy is forcing people to shift market share away, then it might make those hard-headed businessmen realize they're hurting themselves. We just need enough people to say it to get someone's (who's more important than a customer service rep) attention.

Seriously, can't be all bad to switch to Crossfire if Nvidia won't answer the need. :)

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Originally Posted by Anemone

Seriously, can't be all bad to switch to Crossfire if Nvidia won't answer the need. :)

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Have you tried crosswired? :slapass:

I tried X1900 & X1900XT in crosswired (it will clock to the slower card)
Your screen res will change everytime you play a game, restart your system, watch a movie.......anything video & Control panel RESETS YOUR DESK TOP RES:mad:

Not to mention no driver support, low bench marks, slow gaming.

I put my 7900GTX's back in until I can get some drivers for the 7950's

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Originally Posted by DEVIL_DK

Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

Sorry for the inconvenience. However, Intel 975X Chipset is not supported on SLI and we can not comment on the future release due to the competitive nature of this business. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

Best regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

sounds like the answer i got from Martox some years ago regarding opengl drivers.
it will be on hp when it is redy.

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I got the same responce when I asked them this:

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Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support center. Below is a summary of your request and our response.

We will assume your issue has been resolved if we do not hear from you within 72 hours.

Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you.


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Response (JR) 10/09/2006 04:28 AM
Hello Victor,

Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care and apologies for the delayed response.

I understand from your email, that you wanted to know when NVIDIA will unblock SLI on i975X chipset's. SLI will run only with SLI certified motherboards and the motherboards cannot be made to support SLI by updating drivers. Please note that since its introduction in 2004, SLI Technology is a exclusive function reserved for NVIDIA nForce MCPs only and is marketed and advertised as so.

Please feel free to contact us, if you have any further questions.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

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Intel really needs to buy them out and put Nvidia's intel chipset and video chipset driver policy in the grave. :shrug:

Done...

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Intel really needs to buy them out and put Nvidia's intel chipset and video chipset driver policy in the grave.

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amen :)

Well most of the new abit crosswired boards are shipping with an SLI bridge :woot:

Putting together a AW9-MAX crosswired came with SLI bridge.
Of course it will be uncertified SLI. :eek:
7900's in SLI but they hit 66k+ in 01 211k+ in AQ3 so I'm happy

+1!

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Originally Posted by beast-usa

amen :)

Well most of the new abit crosswired boards are shipping with an SLI bridge :woot:

Putting together a AW9-MAX crosswired came with SLI bridge.
Of course it will be uncertified SLI. :eek:
7900's in SLI but they hit 66k+ in 01 211k+ in AQ3 so I'm happy

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I've got 2-i975x motherboards here and a 3rd on the way, 2-Abit AW9D-MAX and 1-Asus P5W DH Deluxe 1.03G(Has a C2Q in It) and one of those 3 will have SLI in It(support or not as I have two 7800GTX cards[a Leadtek and a Dell and except for the name & bios on each are a like]):D, I'll not get another underwhelming Nvidia motherboard if I can help It, I've never trusted Nvidias ide drivers and their recent Intel overclocking is nothin to brag about either, Of course what the 680 chipset will do in regards to overclocking, I don't know and I'll be reading a few 680 motherboard reviews before I buy a 680 chipset motherboard made by Nvidia anytime soon.:cool:

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I've got 2-i975x motherboards here and a 3rd on the way, 2-Abit AW9D-MAX and 1-Asus P5W DH Deluxe 1.03G(Has a C2Q in It) and one of those 3 will have SLI in It(support or not as I have two 7800GTX cards[a Leadtek and a Dell and except for the name & bios on each are a like]):D, I'll not get another underwhelming Nvidia motherboard if I can help It, I've never trusted Nvidias ide drivers and their recent Intel overclocking is nothin to brag about either, Of course what the 680 chipset will do in regards to overclocking, I don't know and I'll be reading a few 680 motherboard reviews before I buy a 680 chipset motherboard made by Nvidia anytime soon.:cool:

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The P5W is a good clocker AQ3 214K+ on my 6800 @ 4270
The Aw9 is a better clocker more MCH voltage adjustments.
I was using the P5W with the 68 & the AW9 with my E66.
And I got the E66 to run just under the speed of my 68
with almost no vcore adjustment.
So I switched both systems to the AW9.

And tried the Asus PN32 x16 intel SLI NF590 6 X raid 0
Drive speed at 6 drives same or slower then my intel raid at 4 drives.
Over clocking just plain bad 3.6 un-stable @ 1.450v
(run my x68 on the Aw9 333X11 3663 vcore 1.37v mch 1.70v 24/7)
I liked the memory adjustment just type in the speed.
Set my Geil to 1100 NP but the X6800 just couldn't keep it stable. :slapass:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=19113

It's a money thing... Nvidia was trying to get Intel to pony up some cash for the driver support and Intel laughed.

I wonder how many ATI cards have been sold because Nvidia hasn't released an official 975x driver??? Retards I tell ya! :p

:banana::banana::banana::banana: em :)

Hope they loss the $ Just like in the share issues now :)

GO BROKE :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:s :p

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Originally Posted by Rodzilla

It's a money thing... Nvidia was trying to get Intel to pony up some cash for the driver support and Intel laughed.

I wonder how many ATI cards have been sold because Nvidia hasn't released an official 975x driver??? Retards I tell ya! :p

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I think We can amend that to read "Greedy Retards";) :D

I still need some XP x64 Modded Nvidia SLi drivers, All the ones here are 32bit and My system is 64bit and I'm no programmer. Although with the right tools(I have no idea what they are) and the knowledge of where and what to mod, I guess I could do It as I have the systems mostly, I'm waiting on some cases from Newegg and a pair of cpus from an Intel retailer(When the cpus are ready for sale finally to the general public:slobber: ). :D

i agree maverick....i need it too....so i can get a 2nd card

i got the same as baldrick......i was like

Well guys, I am sorry, but you just lost an Nvidia fan, ATI is stronger and more wide spread upon intel chipsets..and many others to come if you dont help us with this dilema.

HEH....that should hurt em, or they might not care at all since their 8800GTX beat the x1950xtx in crossfire...