XS Unite to get official SLI drivers for Intel

[Rodzilla]

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

Yea but wait till ATI releases there next gen stuff...

[onewingedangel]

the 8800gtx beating a crossfire setup is hardly suprising considering crossfire is rarely 20% better than a single card. Ati is working on improving crossfire efficiency, its an ongoing thing. The 8800gtx looks to be very good, but its not a leap forward in performance like the 6800ultra/x850xtpe were, no matter what some people say.

In regards to sli on intel chipsets, considering intels next gen chipsets will feature 2 x16 slots, and presumably crossfire support is up in the air, all signs would point to nvidia allowing sli. I'm sure intel and nvidia could come to some mutually beneficial arrangement.

[fullmetal]

wait.....are you saying that my 975xbx doesnt have dual x16 slots....I have 3 pciespress slots. they are all supposed to be running at x16?

[Robilar]

16x single card, other slots run at 8x electrical. IF you run two cards in sli, they will run at 8x8x

[Seolfor]

16x single card, other slots run at 8x electrical. IF you run two cards in sli, they will run at 8x8x

The third slot is at 4x.

non-sli: 16x 8x 4x
sli: 8x 8x 4x

[Tyberius]

Heres what really fricken irks me:



Thats a Dell Precision 690, which is a dual woodcrest Xeon workstation using an INTEL 5000x greencreek chipset. INTEL CHIPSET being the operative there. They ship with dual Quadro FX 4500's which run SLi without a problem out of the box. WTF!!!

Does dell use some custom driver? Did they work out a deal with Nvidia?

I run a dual Xeon system using the same chipset, and dual 7900GTX's will NOT run SLi. It recognizes both cards, but the SLi section tells me I dont have a qualified motherboard. This really sucks that they make exceptions to big oems like Dell, but not to their single consumers.

[Robilar]

Doesn't matter so much now that the 680i came out.

[Tyberius]

Matters plenty to those using an intel chipset. In my case, there is no nvidia xeon chipset option.

[nr2134]

Heres what really fricken irks me:



Thats a Dell Precision 690, which is a dual woodcrest Xeon workstation using an INTEL 5000x greencreek chipset. INTEL CHIPSET being the operative there. They ship with dual Quadro FX 4500's which run SLi without a problem out of the box. WTF!!!

Does dell use some custom driver? Did they work out a deal with Nvidia?

I run a dual Xeon system using the same chipset, and dual 7900GTX's will NOT run SLi. It recognizes both cards, but the SLi section tells me I dont have a qualified motherboard. This really sucks that they make exceptions to big oems like Dell, but not to their single consumers.

Im not surprised. I sure hell would not run an Nvidia chipped mobo for any of my workstations @ work and a lot of people feel the same. So Nvidia has no choice but to allow SLI for Quadro cards if they want to sell more of them. Im just really surprised that Intel has not pressured Nvidia more into enabling SLI on 975X boards. There is tons of those boards around and although not everyone would go dual GPU it would be a wise decision to allow SLI for those people just in case.
Especially the OEM customers that really cant or wont change motherboards, but might actually add a second GPU.

Lets face it. Not everyone will buy a 680i board.......Im sure not. Had a P5WD for 3 months and I just recently picked up a AW9D-Max and absolutely love it. I bring a lot of work home with me(SolidWorks,MasterCam, Etc.), game,encode video and music. Intel has not let me down even once on my overclocked C2D system.

Now Im not saying 680i is crap...its just not for me. If Nvidia driver quality and stabillity was on par with Intel's I would reconsider, but its not and only time will tell if it ever will be.

The worst thing is I have a dillema. I have 2 8800GTX's sitting on my desk to replace my X1900 crossfire setup with no drivers to support my 975X board.

What to do, what to do. Hope Nvidia changes its tune soon.

OT. Great forum and Im an idiot for not joining sooner.

[BobTheDinosaur]

can anyone tell me where i can find these hacked drivers?

tried google, came up dry..

[SafeFire]

Grrr, tried to throw in a question too. Some internal error acurred. I'll try again later.

@bob: I've got the drivers somewhere. I don't know if I'm allowed to post em again, but I if am I'll find some way of getting them to ya

ps. I'd like a reply on wether I can post em/pm them or not. Just so I don't get booted after being here a month

[BobTheDinosaur]

cool thanks
don't suppose you know where you got them from? or did you do them ureself?

[erwinz]

ahh.. hope they realese the driver..

[SKiLL3D]

SLi4aLL i shout!

i send another mail with other mailadress - altered text a little(from NF590 to NVIDIA, from 1950XTX to 1950XTX or R600 next month )

iLL

[bluep3ace]

check these dell drivers out...

maybe we can reverse engineer?

[ND40oz]

check these dell drivers out...

maybe we can reverse engineer?

You shouldn't need dells drivers, I'm using the standard quadro 91.37s on that screen shot you got there. Problem is there aren't any 8800 based quadros to use their drivers for the latest cards.

[supa-fly]

Done twice with two differnt email accounts

[Nosfer@tu]

It is never going to happen

Lets just hope Intel kills of all Nvidia chipsets so SLI is only posible with AMD :p

[bagurk]

hello all. First time poster.

I have been following these threads about SLI on intel chipsets. I am in the same boat as many of u, with a 975 board and the desire for SLI.

I followed the original posters steps to contact nvidia... this is the response i got....


Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

I understand from your email, that you are looking for drivers supporting SLI for Intel 975x chipset.

I am sorry however at NVIDIA you will get the best compatible drivers for the chipsets manufactured by NVIDIA. As the latest chipset support is 680i SLI chipsets, so there isn't any chipset called 975 X with NVIDIA. So I request you to please contact Intel for this concern. I am sure they will help you in getting the drivers.

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


So i have followed their advice and contacted intel about the issue... Hopefully something comes of this.

Later.

[serialk11r]

hello all. First time poster.

I have been following these threads about SLI on intel chipsets. I am in the same boat as many of u, with a 975 board and the desire for SLI.

I followed the original posters steps to contact nvidia... this is the response i got....


Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

I understand from your email, that you are looking for drivers supporting SLI for Intel 975x chipset.

I am sorry however at NVIDIA you will get the best compatible drivers for the chipsets manufactured by NVIDIA. As the latest chipset support is 680i SLI chipsets, so there isn't any chipset called 975 X with NVIDIA. So I request you to please contact Intel for this concern. I am sure they will help you in getting the drivers.

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


So i have followed their advice and contacted intel about the issue... Hopefully something comes of this.

Later.

WTF??? Wow their customer care really cares about their customers.

[beast-usa]

hello all. First time poster.

I have been following these threads about SLI on intel chipsets. I am in the same boat as many of u, with a 975 board and the desire for SLI.

I followed the original posters steps to contact nvidia... this is the response i got....


Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

I understand from your email, that you are looking for drivers supporting SLI for Intel 975x chipset.

I am sorry however at NVIDIA you will get the best compatible drivers for the chipsets manufactured by NVIDIA. As the latest chipset support is 680i SLI chipsets, so there isn't any chipset called 975 X with NVIDIA. So I request you to please contact Intel for this concern. I am sure they will help you in getting the drivers.

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


So i have followed their advice and contacted intel about the issue... Hopefully something comes of this.

Later.

I was reading something from last year that said it was intel not nvidia.
That intel is choosing not to let nvidia release SLI drivers for their boards.

I just sent my 4 request off to nvidia......time to get better drivers or R600's

If it is really intel's fault time to switch who we hammer

[beast-usa]

Look what I got back this time

Hello Beast,

Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

I understand from your email, that you would like to enable SLI when you use your Geforce 7950 graphics cards in SLI on a Intel 975X chipset motherboard.

Beast, in order to assist you better, I would require to know the following details. Could you please tell me ---

1. The driver version that you have currently installed for the graphics cards.

2.The version of Operating System that you are using on your computer.

I look forward to your mail in order to assist you better.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

[knoxjeff]

I am trying to run SLI in Vista 64-bit with 975x chipset. nVidia told me to upgrade from 100.65 to 101.41, and then to send them information from DxDiag. They knew from my original question that I had a 975x chipset, but they never mentioned it in any of their replies.
Now this is what they told me in the end:


Thank you for allowing us to help you.

Jeff , the Geforce 6800 graphics card normally is able to run in SLI on Windows Vista with the [101.41] driver. I am surprised that yours does not and I believe that this is a bug that we do not know of. Hence I request you to report this . Please visit--

http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html

On this link please click on "Report a bug with the NVIDIA graphics driver." to report the issue in detail.

I apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused.

Regards,
NVIDIA Customer Care.

[beast-usa]

I gave up....and got the Sapphire HD2900XT's DDR4 in Crossfire.

Great Cards! All the drivers work, no hacking to use my 975i!

Thanks nvidia!
If you had released the drivers I may have never tried the 2900'S

[maverik-sg1]

I think that a better purchase would of been a 680i based motherboard and 2x 8800GTS 320MB units.

I think with the release of that board Nvidia did finally do something right as performance is equal to best 975 boards around.