ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe doing SLI ?

**Stigma** · 08-03-2006, 11:15 AM

Heya,

ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe has no official support for SLI, but from what I hear it should be a relatively simple driver-level hack to make SLI work for it.

But, has anyone actually done it yet, and confirmed that ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe actually works with SLI? How much hassle are we talking about? What drawbacks are there to not having the official support on this platform?

-Stigma

**selder** · 08-03-2006, 11:28 AM

No drawbacks whatsoever ... remember SLi is something that is 100% software, as long as there are enough PCIe lanes to fill 2 slots ... (e.g. 16 lanes, which makes 2 slots at 8speed)

And the only drawback is that you can't have the newest beta forceware driver, the most recent driver you can use is in the 8th gen (8x.xx)...

But just hold on, in a couple of weeks Nvidia and Intel will hopefully announce SLi for intel chipsets

**NiCKE^** · 08-03-2006, 11:46 AM

If someone has ran SLI on P5W DH Deluxe? Hell yeah many ppls have done it!
Runs flawless for me atleast.

**Stigma** · 08-03-2006, 11:57 AM

Hmmm...

ok, so all you need is an unlocked driver then. I guess they will be blocking out this combo from working as default in newer revisions.

But hacked drivers aren't hard to get hold of, so I assuem it wont be a problem at all.

Thanks for the reassurances =)

-Stigma

**mk0r** · 08-03-2006, 12:33 PM

im glad someone has created hacked drivers

, since for a lot of people SLI is more appealing than cf, as the nForce chips aren't amazing overclockers

, trouble is, i still don't like the idea of spending all that money on gfx cards that aren't officially supported tho

**Artmic** · 08-03-2006, 12:49 PM

I really hope nVidia and Intel will let us have SLI on 975X CF based motherboards soon.

**asphix** · 08-03-2006, 01:43 PM

word is out that we may soon see official SLI support on the i975x as well.

**tardbus2** · 08-03-2006, 02:03 PM

What about 7950gx2 in sli?

**graham_h** · 08-06-2006, 02:24 AM

where are the hacked drivers ?

**selder** · 08-06-2006, 02:26 AM

Use the search luke, use the search!

**Cocacola** · 08-06-2006, 02:36 AM

are there any difference between SLI 8x 8x and SLI 16x 16x ?
maybe lower score on 3dmark or what? Thx

**JvT** · 08-10-2006, 02:34 PM

For those of you running SLI on ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe:

Since there's no SLI bridge with the Motherboard, do you run without it or did you have a spare?
Are you able to bye a SLI bridge fitting the ASUS motherboard somewhere in Europa, skandinavia or best of all, Denmark?

**maverik-sg1** · 08-10-2006, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by JvT

For those of you running SLI on ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe:

Since there's no SLI bridge with the Motherboard, do you run without it or did you have a spare?
Are you able to bye a SLI bridge fitting the ASUS motherboard somewhere in Europa, skandinavia or best of all, Denmark?

You can get the bridge in the form of a ribbon cable off of a well known auction site (use 'sli bridge' in search bar

)

Cheers

Mav

**Schlingel** · 08-10-2006, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by graham_h

where are the hacked drivers ?

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Obihörnchen\Eigene Dateien\84.43_mod_4_Schlingel_INV

and yes SLI runs without any problem on the P5W-DH. using 2x 7800GT atm

**JvT** · 08-10-2006, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by maverik-sg1

You can get the bridge in the form of a ribbon cable off of a well known auction site (use 'sli bridge' in search bar

)

I've found this.. You think its ok:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...DME:L:RTQ:UK:1

According to the seller it's 80 mm long, so I guess that it will fit on the P5W-DH Deluxe?

**Schlingel** · 08-11-2006, 12:30 AM

yes it fits

**gundamit** · 08-11-2006, 01:12 AM

This SLI cable looks pretty flexible, and should work with a variety of boards with slighty different distances between PCI-E slots. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Supermicro SLI Bridge

**noobzed** · 08-11-2006, 02:35 AM

up because it is urgent for me i'll receive my second 7900 gtx

is it necessary to connect sli bridge to do sli on p5wdh ?

**Schlingel** · 08-11-2006, 03:39 AM

yes it is to get full performance

**DEVIL_DK** · 08-11-2006, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by JvT

I've found this.. You think its ok:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...DME:L:RTQ:UK:1

According to the seller it's 80 mm long, so I guess that it will fit on the P5W-DH Deluxe?

Hello

I have 1 live en Danmark = Århus.
du kan fange mig på msn a_henrik67@hotmail.com

and yes sli runs fine on this board.

**sparkie34** · 08-11-2006, 06:18 AM

Originally Posted by gundamit

This SLI cable looks pretty flexible, and should work with a variety of boards with slighty different distances between PCI-E slots. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Supermicro SLI Bridge

Thats the bridge I'm using right now. No problems at all.

**JvT** · 08-11-2006, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by DEVIL_DK

Hello

I have 1 live en Danmark = Århus.
du kan fange mig på msn a_henrik67@hotmail.com

and yes sli runs fine on this board.

Det lyder godt. Jeg tilføjer dig min MSN når jeg kommer hjem fra arbejde (og får tid til det...)

Så er der ikke meget der holder mig tilbage for at udskifte mit aldrende Barton system...

To other readers:
Sorry for the Danish language.

**noobzed** · 08-14-2006, 05:10 AM

now i have 2x7900 gtx but no bridge beetween the 2 cards

the fps is crappy , lowest than one card only

is it normal ?

**Mr.Kakarot** · 08-29-2006, 02:49 AM

Well without a bridge you should get worse results... but not worse then 1 card....

get a bridge!

**eva2000** · 08-29-2006, 03:03 AM

i just found an Asus flexi SLI bridge in my Asus M2N32-SLI package hehe

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