SLI hack on Intel legacy chipsets (not X58)

[dinos22]

so who's gonna figure this out boys

my bet is that W1zzard will be the first to crack this lol and share the software hehehe

common dude show us some magic

saaya i cant think of any current boards with dual nvidia chips....unless that asus one has it

[quintus]

This will end up like the 6800 series SLI hack. Forgotten and outdated within a few months to the point of uselessness...

Hope you are wrong!

[[XC] hipno650]

well i have 2 8800gtx's sitting here and i would love to try this out on my P5Q Deluxe. hopefully the cracked drivers will be released to mass DL soon.

[BulldogPO]

Hoping the same

[Sly Fox]

Why do you say that? Very many people are still on s775 who would like to give this a go I would think.

Just because Nvidia will likely do what they can to thwart this. AFAIK that's approximately what happened last time.

One set of drivers was hacked, but all the drivers after that still didn't work. So eventually people just had to give it up.

Hope you are wrong!

Me too! I'd love to use SLI on my X48 board. Even if only for some benching and fiddling about.

[STEvil]

http://en.expreview.com/img/2009/08/...li_3_large.jpg

expreview tested this with 2x GTX 260+ and managed to have SLI enabled, so it's not just a PhysX hack.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=13

[Andrea deluxe]

I could tell if tri-sli with (2) 275's in my 295, and (1) 280 worked. I would set all 3 clocks to the same speed on the GPU's, and cut a Vantage run loose. (I guess it would really be considered Dual-SLI, 295 and 280.)

If I can pull off more than 24K with PhysX enabled... SLI would officially be working.

can you link me the hack?

[ShArKo]

maybe we can put this thread, like "the oficial hack divers NV thread" :p
If someone get the hack drivers, please, just let as know here

[saaya]

saaya i cant think of any current boards with dual nvidia chips....unless that asus one has it

asus has one, and asrock has one LOL
and evga was working on one i thought?

[BulldogPO]

Any news on this side?

[FischOderAal]

Hmmm. Maybe NVIDIA asked "nicely" not to release the drivers to the public, like they did last time iirc.

[Biker]

asus has one, and asrock has one LOL
and evga was working on one i thought?

There is also the MSI Eclipse Plus

[GAR]

Good news

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15006/1/

[Talonman]

How does that get SLI to run on my X38 mobo?

"One reader named Firewings [CCG] at Expreview forum (Chinese version) has figured out the way to get SLI support for its Asus Maximus Formula motherboard based on Intel X38 chipset, with one NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT and one GeForce GTX 260 graphics card."

That is what I'm after...

295 and 280 SLI on X38.

I have 50 million links reporting the story...
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Firew...fp=azWfBBCvguA

But cant find one download link.

It also said that it currently only works in 'Directory Services Restore' mode, but should work in normal mode too soon. (I hope that is correct.)

[ghost_recon88]

We need a Chinese speaking member to translate the latest news on Exp forums...

Google translations does a pretty good job, linky.

[Talonman]

Thanks... It looks like you need to be on the email list.

I wonder why they just don't post it?

[ShArKo]

Well if they find a way to get SLI on x38 motherboard, Nv is not going to be happy.....
Just think this:
a x58 Motherboard is more than $300 (at least in my country).
a x38 less than $200 ("same").

I just wanna try a SLI with 2 8800GTS (G92) Or maybe 2 GTX275

If anyone get´s the hack drivers, please just let as know

[soundood]

ok let me get this right, Fud is telling us that from today, all platforms will now be allowed to have SLI, to include Phenom II based systems? so does this include the already crossfire enabled boards? is this going to be done at a driver level?

Today, Nvidia confirmed that Core i5 and Core i7 platforms on socket LGA 1156 have official SLI certification on Intel P55 chipset motherboards. In other words, consumers, OEMs, and distributors can officially pump their systems with up to Quad-SLI graphics configurations under consent of the green chip giant.


The significance of this announcement is the fact that SLI is now officially available on all consumer PC platforms, including the Intel Core i7, Core i5, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors, as well as those based on the AMD Phenom II.

[GAR]

Thats what it seems like, well see if its actually true, if so i am glad we finally see SLI open to many platforms, this will boost nVidia GPU sales for sure.

[JohnZS]

About blimin time too
I'm guessing this is because nVidia are going to cease and desist going down the nFarce route and will instead concentrate on GPU's...

[Sadasius]

Well it looks like Nvidia finally came to their damn senses. Did not make sense to me before to limit consumers who did not want their platform. Glad to see someone's eyes opened up to the real world!

[Talonman]

ok let me get this right, Fud is telling us that from today, all platforms will now be allowed to have SLI, to include Phenom II based systems? so does this include the already crossfire enabled boards? is this going to be done at a driver level?

Are they talking X38 too, withought the SLI hack?

[Sadasius]

Are they talking X38 too, withought the SLI hack?

Well how many Core 2's do you know that run on a X58 board?

Today, Nvidia confirmed that Core i5 and Core i7 platforms on socket LGA 1156 have official SLI certification on Intel P55 chipset motherboards. In other words, consumers, OEMs, and distributors can officially pump their systems with up to Quad-SLI graphics configurations under consent of the green chip giant.

The significance of this announcement is the fact that SLI is now officially available on all consumer PC platforms, including the Intel Core i7, Core i5, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors, as well as those based on the AMD Phenom II.

[>HyperlogiK<]

Just because Nvidia will likely do what they can to thwart this. AFAIK that's approximately what happened last time.

I think the likelyhood of this depends on whether it is a cracked forceware driver or some kind of emulation layer.

[papatsonis]

ok let me get this right, Fud is telling us that from today, all platforms will now be allowed to have SLI, to include Phenom II based systems? so does this include the already crossfire enabled boards? is this going to be done at a driver level?

obviously they mean.. "we just added the i5 family, and want to make hype" cause they actually DO support SLI with nforce 6x0/7x0 for C2D/Q and 7x0a/9x0a for AMD.

If you notice the original statement from nV says about adding i5 SLI support only, the following statement is -logical- comment from the news poster...