Hey all, long time since I checked this thread.

Thanks for all the positive comments and I'm glad that some people are making use of the drivers XD.
Quote Originally Posted by nFo View Post
Is it not possible to mod, the more new drivers ?
169.xx ?
Unfortunately the newer nVidia drivers (anything newer than 85.96) are encrypted and cause a black screen when the code is altered and SLI is enabled :"(''''.

nVidia began encrypting them when they released the first 7950GX2 driver IIRC... I have tried many methods to bypass the encryption (going so far as to edit the BIOS of my CFX3200 to read as an nVidia crush chipset CK804) but did not have success. It seems there are mutliple checks and even if the code is not altered you must pass the checks while the system is running.

The likelyhood of getting newer drivers or newer card support for SLI on non-nVidia mobo's is nil.

Unless Intel and nVidia come to some sort of arrangement, and even then you'll probably still need an nforce 100/200 SLI chip on the motherboard to pass the driver check (remember the Dell Precision 690, anybody? Or the Alienware m9750 gaming laptop?) then I would expect things to stay as they are.

With the amount of drivers that nVidia release to fix issues in new games while Vista/DirectX10 is being developed and the desire to have more than 3.5GB of RAM - I decided to drop the whole thing.

Technology moves fast - it's easy to get left behind.

So that is why I am posting here today, on my recently built PC (QX9650, XFX 780i SLI motherboard with 2 8800GT's, Vista x64 and 4GB of G.Skill RAM). In the end I relented and bought an nVidia board to run SLI.

nVida win.