SLI on 975X, official Nvidia response

[Charles Wirth]

Sean Cleveland
Technical Marketing Manager
Platform Product Reviews
NVIDIA Corporation

Nvidia will not enable SLI support for Intel chipsets.

Sorry about the short answer, the reasoning was a bit odd.

"Intel chipsets do not provide enough bandwidth to support SLI"

[Rovtar]

I don't even care... we have cf :P

[Thorburn]

Load up the 66.81 drivers with a couple 6800 cards, works just fine.
Its all political.

[Arnie]

What about the patch that Asrock released which apparently made the drivers think that they were running on an Nvidia chipset no matter what chipset the board actually used, has anyone tried them?

[Sentential]

Really? Strange considering Xfire uses more bandwith....

It appears they have forgotten that more than half of the market is strictly Intel and that will continue to grow with the arrival of Conroe.

[guess2098]

In Fact!
They Just Can Not Agree With $$,$$$,$$$, Thats All

[Thorburn]

Really? Strange considering Xfire uses more bandwith....

It appears they have forgotten that more than half of the market is strictly Intel and that will continue to grow with the arrival of Conroe.

Funnily enough the drivers lost support for Intel chipsets around about the time the NForce 4 Intel launched.

[Waus-mod]

but with hacked drivers sli is possible ... so huh?

[Extera]

or an other chipset.

SLI+Conroe anyone?

[ahmad]

Why the heck would they do that?

Someone over at nvidia is trying to make people buy nvidia boards? They don't even have a decent Intel chip available

[Thorburn]

but with hacked drivers sli is possible ... so huh?

Can you link me up to some? Got a few people at work who would be interested in seeing them

[Extera]

Why the heck would they do that?

Someone over at nvidia is trying to make people buy nvidia boards? They don't even have a decent Intel chip available

Xfire is still more expansive than SLI, and I'm just a poor student

[railer]

heh stupid Nvidia. Well if it goes like that CF and Conroe for systems freaks

[Charles Wirth]

No Conroe support as well.

[[XC] leviathan18]

why would you support a chipset competitor?????

is the most logical answer..... as long as nvidia is making chipsets for intel plataform you wont see SLI in intels chipsets

[Extera]

No Conroe support as well.

you mean like no support for conroe in NVidea chipset's?
so, we will never see a conroe running on SLI?
(ok, maby hacked or something like waus said)

[G H Z]

So you can sell your cards to buyers with an Intel platform, this will hurt Nvidia.

[Charles Wirth]

Some people prefer Nvidia based graphics, its a shame that Nvidia wants to play this way. it only hurts them and their customer base.

I forsee more Crossfire sales.

[freecableguy]

This will remove nVidia from the ORB.

PR guys from nVidia, are you listening? I have owned 12 7800GTX/7900GTX cards in the last year. My last ATI purchase was an x850XT when it first came out. Guess who just bought a pair of x1900XTX cards for CF? Yep....this guy.

Here's what he really wanted to say: "Intel chipsets does not provide enough bandwidth money to support SLI"

[WildEye]

Well then... Looks like I will swap GFX supplier if Conroe does turn out to be what the previews show it to be.

No SLI support is kinda a nobrainer if you ask me. *doh*

[Extera]

seems almost to bad to be true.

How can NVidea be that stupid?
yo fugger, april foolsday is over huh

[VulgarHandle]

lol, i definately wouldn't blame nvidia for this, this is obviously an intel move

i had asked in another thread(half-jokingly, half-had to make sure) about who made i???x chipsets, which is of course, intel

this is pure market cornering for intel, i laughed way too hard when i knew intel made the chipsets

it is NOT a question of why NVIDIA DOSN'T WANT to make chipsets for intel,
it IS why does INTEL NOT WANT nvidia to make chipsets for intel?

and because intel dosn't want nvidia making chipsets for them, nvidia said, fine, no sli, which IMHO, is a good moral decision, i give nvidia props

now, this is great for ati, who, obviously, dosn't give a crap

of course, i'll still buy ati(simply because IN MY OWN EXPERIENCE, they produce better cards), as for processor/platform, i'll buy best bang for buck, so i hope amd puts up something to compete w/ conroe, give me more choices

[dqniel]

This will remove nVidia from the ORB.

MMouse and Kingp|n say it won't

[Thorburn]

it is NOT a question of why NVIDIA DOSN'T WANT to make chipsets for intel,
it IS why does INTEL NOT WANT nvidia to make chipsets for intel?

and because intel dosn't want nvidia making chipsets for them, nvidia said, fine, no sli, which IMHO, is a good moral decision, i give nvidia props

That makes perfect sense, except for the fact that Intel granted NVIDIA a license to produce chipsets for there platforms, NVIDIA refuse to give Intel a license to use SLI.

So actually, it makes no sense at all.

[Sumanji]

I'm still surprised no one has a 3rd party patch for this... surely it can't be THAT hard to strip chipset detection from the drivers. Correct me if I'm wrong though (no technical background at all here )

Suman