SLI drivers for X38 in final stages

[Jodiuh]

I like SLI, but after fighting with 680i chipsets and wasting god knows how much on different boards, blown ram, water cooling to tame them, dealing with raid issues it's left a sour taste in my mouth...If it wasn't for the aswomeness of geforce8 and SLI I wouldn't bother with nforce now, and even then it's becoming hard to justify.

IIRC, the ram issue's settled. I won't be going for crazy high FSB, only GPU/CPU performance for Crysis/media transcoding. Mainly Crysis...that game just...wow.

That leaves 2 questions that go OT, but what board and will the RAID fux0r my 2 250GB's in a mirror like 2 years ago? I had to go through 200+ folders and "see" whether or not the pics corrupt or not. (family stuff guys, get out the gutter) That was NOT good times.

1. Will my Raptors in 0 suck? Will my Hitachis corrupt?
2. Striker Extreme, EVGA A1, or DFI LP?

Thanks!!

EDIT: maybe by some struck of stupid ATI will hook it up

[BenchZowner]

there are more chances of "big foot" hiding somewhere deep in the woods somewhere in the U.S..

Last time I heard from him he was visiting a friend in Taipei

[crash5s]

IIRC, the ram issue's settled. I won't be going for crazy high FSB, only GPU/CPU performance for Crysis/media transcoding. Mainly Crysis...that game just...wow.

That leaves 2 questions that go OT, but what board and will the RAID fux0r my 2 250GB's in a mirror like 2 years ago? I had to go through 200+ folders and "see" whether or not the pics corrupt or not. (family stuff guys, get out the gutter) That was NOT good times.

1. Will my Raptors in 0 suck? Will my Hitachis corrupt?
2. Striker Extreme, EVGA A1, or DFI LP?

Thanks!!

EDIT: maybe by some struck of stupid ATI will hook it up

RAM issue is settled on reff boards, your own your own with DFI/ASUS/ABIT et all.

RAID issue is also mostly fixed. However it's still no match for intels. Save yourself the headache and get a PCI sata RAID card, it's worth the cost just to forget about it.

1. No, probabl not.
2. EVGA

[PrometheusCon]

People still "dreaming" about nVidia issuing SLI drivers for Intel chipsets?

Com'on, let get real, there are more chances of "big foot" hiding somewhere deep in the woods somewhere in the U.S..

Oct 29, 2007

http://kdka.com/topstories/bigfoot.P....2.414792.html

Haha.

[HamidFULL]

its a shock ...

[trans am]

So basically there is a better chance of Big Foot getting struck by lightning 5 times in a row while driving drunk through a car wash than x38 sli support?

[Jodiuh]

Thanks Crash. A friend of mine's been using the EVGA board for some time now and although he's not on a quad or using RAID, he's had no issues. Actually his X-Fi doesn't even crackle.

I've looked @ the Arecas, but $300 seems a little steep. Then again, no drivers and I can take it w/ me, right?

[crash5s]

Thanks Crash. A friend of mine's been using the EVGA board for some time now and although he's not on a quad or using RAID, he's had no issues. Actually his X-Fi doesn't even crackle.

I've looked @ the Arecas, but $300 seems a little steep. Then again, no drivers and I can take it w/ me, right?

EVGA has a quad OC version out. The xfi issue has been worked out on all the boards.

Last time I touched a DFI it was great for duals, not so much for quads.

I've been through 3 strikers. The problems with the striker are not 680i related, it's striker related.

If you can find a seller that will make sure you get the latest rev with the 1303 bios the feature set makes it worth the cash if you don't want a huge OC. However the striker has massive ram issues that are it's own monster. I've stuck with it out of stubborness.

[railer]

Hacked driver will be released for sure. But the downside is that Nvidia constantly updates it's drivers. By the time it's relesed legit drivers will be 10-20 releases up. Now i dobt that who ever hacks SLI can keep up. You realy dont want to play with 6 month old driver even in SLI.

[Patriote]

I say, let's wait and seen. I'll believe it when i see it.

[npk]

we need perkam here

[Zytek_Fan]

Please let SLI exist on X38. I can't stand those crap chipsets that NVIDIA makes

[dinos22]

i'll also be a pessimist here and say it will never OFFICIALLY happen i can bet you everything i own

X38 will not have driver support from nvidia

hacked maybe

where is that Sam dude....he has those hacked ones before D

[turtletrax]

With Beta driver releases every week or so and full releases monthly if not more, a hacked driver becomes useless very quickly.

While I pray to the gods that be that this happens, I really dont think it will be more than a novelty if it is a cracked driver.

Still, fingers crossed...

[oohms]

we need perkam here

Yes this thread needs to be perkaminated

Ever since that news item about foxconn "multi gpu" capable boards, rumours have run rampant about sli on intel chipsets.

[hipro5]

I wonder WHY INTEL don't pay NVIDIA to get the licence and work X38s with SLI?.....They have PLENTY of money right now.....and IF they want to "neel" AMD/ATI, they should do it.... BUT who knows what's happening "behind the scenes"?...

[cstkl1]

dude y dont u ask them..

[saaya]

dont think itll ever happen... would be sweet though, sli wouldnt be coupled to the buggy 680 chipset anymore

[Harshal]

If I am right certain someone has done in past... for 975X
With "certain team" doing a job I expect a better result
And those guys.. who think they are just spreading the news dat SLI is not supported.. well we all know about it... fun starts when we go beyond that fact, ain't it??
I know legally one cant have SLI on X38... but wats wrong wid few of us sharing that amazing driver :P
Keep us posted, Pete!

[Richard Dower]

They would sell alot more boards based on X38 if they had SLI...thats for sure.

[irev210]

They would sell alot more boards based on X38 if they had SLI...thats for sure.

nvidia would sell a LOT more cards too.


I build a few computers here and there for people and they always want some sort of multi-gpu configuration, or atleast the capability to.


I end up telling them to wait for the hd 3800 + X38. I'd rather say get x38 + 8800GT right now, but too bad for NVIDIA.

[metro.cl]

I wonder WHY INTEL don't pay NVIDIA to get the licence and work X38s with SLI?.....They have PLENTY of money right now.....and IF they want to "neel" AMD/ATI, they should do it.... BUT who knows what's happening "behind the scenes"?...

I dont think that is the issue Hipro.

[Pete]

Sorry i been a bit busy.

All i know is it's a bunch of geeks that are just like us and working there fanny off to get it done. 128k encription doesn't stop anyone these days. I've not chatted to the guy i know thats part of the crack team on it but he will contact me to let me know more.

[rob[GL]]

Intel would sell more boards... Nvidia would sell more cards...

But then why would anyone buy Nvidia boards? They wouldn't. That's dumb. Nvidia is here to make money, not make people happy, they want their own board market.

[hipro5]

Intel would sell more boards... Nvidia would sell more cards...

But then why would anyone buy Nvidia boards? They wouldn't. That's dumb. Nvidia is here to make money, not make people happy, they want their own board market.

Yes BUT DON'T they see that their motherboard/chipset is CRAP.....?......