8800gt on non-sli board

[spacecowboy9891]

I have an asus p5w-dh deluxe motherboard and am upgrading to nvidia cards. It has two 16x pci-e slots but I noticed that it says it is certified for crossfire but did not mention sli. I am pretty sure that it can do sli but I just wanted to make sure before spending an extra 260

 

[PianoMan]

AFAIK, Crossfire and SLI have different implementations at the physical level - you can't mix-and-match. Could be wrong though...

 

[aka1nas]

You need an Nvidia chipset to run SLI at this time.

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
You need Nvidia chipset drivers to run SLI at this time.

Fixed :evil:

 

[spacecowboy9891]

So as long as I have the drivers I can still run them on my motherboard?

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: spacecowboy9891
So as long as I have the drivers I can still run them on my motherboard?

No, you cannot run SLi on your motherboard.

I was making a reference to Nvidia making registry changes to prevent SLi on competitors' motherboards.