Bif secret?MSI 7125 (NF4 ultra) can do SLI

[Eversor]

Ok, so the rest of the contacts shouldn´t be power ones :p

Great work onepagebook!

[Dissolved]

onepagebook = teh 1337 masta ninja

[Chris27]

but where would u get the SLI bridge chip thing?

[Onepagebook]

but where would u get the SLI bridge chip thing?

Good question, I think that can be purchased from MSI.

[stelleg151]

yeah onepagebook is a pimp, and btw dissolved, what anime is that pic from?

[IamIkari]

That anime pic is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Most likely the End of Evangelion series. The character is Misato

[jinu117]

That anime pic is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Most likely the End of Evangelion series. The character is Misato

How profer it is that someone's nick here is from Eva too can answer that one?
Anyways, OPB, got any hand on Asus SLI yet or are you funded by MSI not to touch Asus? (Uhmmmm I like that OPB... OPP, OPB, OC-R...)

[Onepagebook]

That anime pic is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Most likely the End of Evangelion series. The character is Misato

no
It's our Taiwanese palm drama.---> http://www.pili.com.tw/

you can download a short clip about that figure that here at:
Here

Asus? lol..not even close to MSI

[MadMikeSS]

Nice job of experimentation. It's really not surprising though if any of you have read any articles on how PCI-E works. Even with 2 large PCI-E slots, only one video card would be running 16X, the other would likely be running 8X assuming there are no other PCI-E devices installed in the system. If there are, say for instance a soundcard using 2X or 1X, then it would reduce the 8X to say 7X or 6X. Basically tho you are just reducing it to 2X by using that slot, but it's not surprising that it works. Cool that someone has tested it tho.

[Skip]

this is kind of like what DFI is planning on doing by using the ultra chipset for their SLI board, except i think they have it doing 16x and 4x though.

[Squid_Spit]

Very interesting indeed nice work onepagebook

[viccyran]

Nice job of experimentation. It's really not surprising though if any of you have read any articles on how PCI-E works. Even with 2 large PCI-E slots, only one video card would be running 16X, the other would likely be running 8X assuming there are no other PCI-E devices installed in the system. If there are, say for instance a soundcard using 2X or 1X, then it would reduce the 8X to say 7X or 6X. Basically tho you are just reducing it to 2X by using that slot, but it's not surprising that it works. Cool that someone has tested it tho.

Would the reprecussions for dropping the mulitplier be much? We all know that 8x AGP vs 4x AGP won't drop performance much, so how is it for pci-e?

[Kanati]

I just noticed something curious from your pic of the 6600gt's OPB. What is holding the waterblock down on the A64? I don't see any clips... using gravity? or even crazier, thermal epoxy?

[_Eduard_]

Does this mean it is possible to do a 4x SLI with a board with 4 PCI-E slots (no matter what size)? Anyway this rocks

[Ref]

Does this mean it is possible to do a 4x SLI with a board with 4 PCI-E slots (no matter what size)? Anyway this rocks

It would, but there's no way to connect them together.
But if nVidia wanted to do so then it would be possible

[OPPAINTER]

Thats some amazing stuff.
I already can see that these new motherboards are going to be So Fun A lot of good stuff to mess with.

OPP

[Onepagebook]

Thats some amazing stuff.
I already can see that these new motherboards are going to So Fun A lot of good stuff to mess with.

OPP

Don't blow too much $$

[_Eduard_]

yep. Imagine 4 high-end cards in SLI. That'd be 4x $500

[Techmasta]

Does this mean it is possible to do a 4x SLI with a board with 4 PCI-E slots (no matter what size)? Anyway this rocks

The drivers are written for 2 cards not 4.

[WesM63]

Is the whole 2x thing less effective than a standard PCI-E Video Slot? Like the one the 2nd card is in?

[DudeMiester]

Seems to be a lot of mis-conceptions about PCIe. The truth is that a PCIe channel is a totally independant thing. You can mix and match them however you want. 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, ... nx. It doesn't matter. The Nforce 4 comes with 20 PCIe channels. These can be arraged however you want, but generally speaking you would put 16 of them for graphics and the rest for other stuff. You can actually tape over the pins on the video card to disable PCIe channels as you like, and it will work perfectly.

[Techmasta]

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD05NTc=

[p4z1f1st]

ok, i calculated it out - the performance-difference is only 2%

that makes me happy

[perry_78]

I think we all know its a great board lacking one thing. Vcore

[Skip]

i thought OPB was going to try a vcore mod a couple days ago, but he hasn't said anything about it. if that mod works, then this board ought to be okay for everyone.