SLI drivers for X38 in final stages

[Pete]

Anonymous "engineers" tell us that SLI drivers for the X38 are "in the final state of polishing with a few bugs left to quash, but plenty of time remains to finish things up."

This morning i had an e-mail with that in from a convo i've had with a few known people. Latter i'm told i'll have the driver!

I guess what with X38 only just coming out and not that many about when under NDA to do any tests on it makes sense for the delay.

Looking forward to running my 8800 GTX in SLI

[Warboy]

This morning i had an e-mail with that in from a convo i've had with a few known people. Latter i'm told i'll have the driver!

I guess what with X38 only just coming out and not that many about when under NDA to do any tests on it makes sense for the delay.

Looking forward to running my 8800 GTX in SLI

It would be shocking if it was true, but I have serious doubts. Especially since i just brought my Maxiums

[PRJ]

Uuhhh...

That would be great!

Will it be the graphic driver or the chipset driver they are modding?

Reason for asking is that if it´s the graphic driver there will be a lot of waiting for newer drivers supporting newest games. The chipset driver is rearly updated, so lets hope its those that are being modded.

PRJ

[Warboy]

Uuhhh...

That would be great!

Will it be the graphic driver or the chipset driver they are modding?

Reason for asking is that if it´s the graphic driver there will be a lot of waiting for newer drivers supporting newest games. The chipset driver is rearly updated, so lets hope its those that are being modded.

PRJ

Well, If I remember right. Chipset drivers are not even needed most of the time.

and on Past SLi Intel Chipset based things, Its normally the video drivers that are modded.

[vmsein]

Here we go agin. Just to be clear, these anonymous "engineers" have nothing to do with nvidia? Interesting if true.....

[OzJustin]

I'm sceptical, but this could be very good indeed. My dreams of X38 Mobo and 8800GT SLI may come into fruition yet.

Keep us posted Pete!

[db87]

Will these stupid rumours never stop?

There will not be SLI support for the regular X38 bords.
Offcourse these boards are capable off SLI but at the same time the drivers need also support the X38. This is the point were nVidia kicks in, nVidia WILL NOT allow on driverlevel to do SLI with Intel's X38.

Offcourse the Skulltrail is a X38 and is capable of SLI but that has nothing to do with the X38. The skulltrail has a nVidia MCP on board. So SLI will be only with server bords and other skulltrail like bords (wich was always possible)...

[Zucker2k]

Will these stupid rumours never stop?

There will not be SLI support for the regular X38 bords.
Offcourse these boards are capable off SLI but at the same time the drivers need also support the X38. This is the point were nVidia kicks in, nVidia WILL NOT allow on driverlevel to do SLI with Intel's X38.

Offcourse the Skulltrail is a X38 and is capable of SLI but that has nothing to do with the X38. The skulltrail has a nVidia MCP on board. So SLI will be only with server bords and other skulltrail like bords (wich was always possible)...

Since this is xtremesystems, I'll say: Never say "never"

[Nosfer@tu]

I doubt it to.

Last thing I learned from others was that the things that keeps you from enabeling SLI is that the driver detects that it is not a Nvidia chipset, and we cant hack that because it is encrypted with 128 bit encryption.

That shouldent be hard for a community like us to crack, but if we did advocates would come with a lawsuite ?

The way the enabled Quard Sli on the new Intel mobos are via Hardware. Doubth that it is needed thoug. They propperly just have a chip that is faster.

But why isent it forbidden for Nvidia to restrict Intel and ATI mobos from running sli? It is competition restrited isent it ?

[[XC]Atomicpineapple]

Skulltrail isnt X38, its a Seaburg chipset based board, and it runs SLi because its got an nvidia bridge chip on the board. As I understand it X38 should run Quadro cards in SLi but not desktop GeForce cards.

[Blauhung]

Will these stupid rumours never stop?

There will not be SLI support for the regular X38 bords.
Offcourse these boards are capable off SLI but at the same time the drivers need also support the X38. This is the point were nVidia kicks in, nVidia WILL NOT allow on driverlevel to do SLI with Intel's X38.

Offcourse the Skulltrail is a X38 and is capable of SLI but that has nothing to do with the X38. The skulltrail has a nVidia MCP on board. So SLI will be only with server bords and other skulltrail like bords (wich was always possible)...

Skull Trail is not an X38. They are 2 completely different chips.

Skull Trail = Seaburg chipset (DP server platform)
X38 = Bearlake C chipset (Desktop Platform)

the nVidia MCP is only to take 2 16x PCI 2.0 slots and split them out to 4 16x PCI 1.0 slots.

[Praz]

I don't doubt the drivers could be hacked. But it's no easy task. There's somewhere between 15 and 18 keys that need to be found and unencrypted. But they will never be publicly available. nVidia has let it be known that if it ever happens the wrath of their entire legal department would be unleashed on those responsible

[LOPa]

Hi...

Will this work on a P35 chipset??

thanks in advance

[Silver Bullet]

P35 chipset doesn't have dual x16 PCIe slots, so its very doubtful that it would work.

[crash5s]

I hope this comes true.

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.

On the flip side my intel chipset based parts have never given me any problems.

nvidia really lucked out that ATi dropped the ball with the 2900xt.

If x38 gets SLI I'd pull the trigger on a couple boards right now. As things stand I'm about to pull the trigger on some 2900's just because I'm sick of 680i as is and have 0 faith in 780i being any better

[Jodiuh]

...nVidia has let it be known that if it ever happens the wrath of their entire legal department would be unleashed on those responsible

Well that makes caving into an NV chipset for SLI a little easier to accept. Why all the hate for the NV chipset again? I loved my DFI Expert.

[Fuji]

I heard that there will never be SLI for the X38. There was talk that the only reason why Intel got SLI to work on Skulltrail was b/c they actually had an nvidia chip in it.

[Johnny Bravo]

Pete any more info for the rest of us?

[crash5s]

I hope this comes true.

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.

On the flip side my intel chipset based parts have never given me any problems.

nvidia really lucked out that ATi dropped the ball with the 2900xt.

If x38 gets SLI I'd pull the trigger on a couple boards right now. As things stand I'm about to pull the trigger on some 2900's just because I'm sick of 680i as is and have 0 faith in 780i being any better

[Praz]

Why all the hate for the NV chipset again? I loved my DFI Expert.

There's no hate from me. The fact is Intel chipsets are better, both in performance and compatibility. If SLI wasn't restricted to nVidia chipsets there would be absolutely no reason for a person to buy a board based on it. More or less creating an artificial market for the product.

[xlink]

It would be shocking if it was true, but I have serious doubts. Especially since i just brought my Maxiums

not really. Hacked drivers have been around for a while. It's only a matter of time.

[BenchZowner]

Why all the hate for the NV chipset again? I loved my DFI Expert.

The nFORCE chipsets for Intel ain't as good as the nFORCE chipsets were for AMD, especially if you compare it with the "golden" nF4.

[PhilDoc]

Irrc, hp was able to get cross-fire to work on a nvidia chipset, I can't see why they can't do the reverse

[Nasgul]

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..

[crash5s]

The nFORCE chipsets for Intel ain't as good as the nFORCE chipsets were for AMD, especially if you compare it with the "golden" nF4.

Frankly I think a lot of the "halo" around NF4 stems from the a64's superiority to the P4 and the fact that nvidia didn't really have any competition on the AMD side (and don't say VIA that's a joke).

When it comes down to it at the time there wasn't any choice for CPU performance but AMD, and NF4 was the only real platform you could run it on.

With intel it's a different ball game. intel makes amazing chipsets for their own chips, which makes nvidias problems all the more obvious because you know there is another option that's hassle free.

I've got a stack of nforce 4/5/6 boards that bit the dust. I've never had an intel board fail (knock on wood), even ye old p2 I built and OC'd as a kid is still going strong.

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.