Crossfire to work on SLI boards?

[Ackmed]

This is fairly old news, but for some reason people seem to forget that Crossfire was designed to work on other chipsets, besides ATi's.

http://support.asus.com/download/downlo...?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5WD2%20Premium

Support ATI CrossFire technology.

Rauhls (owner of Voodoo PC) blog says that he has indeed seem it work on a NF4 SLI board. His exact words are;

Everyone knows Crossfire works with nForce4, and I think we?ll see the difference a chipset makes. I think the fact that ATi designed it to work independently of the chipset is the best feature of Crossfire.

Again, the BIOS update, and his blog are over a month old news, but for some reason people dont seem to understand that you dont have to have a Crossfire motherboard to have Crossfire working. At least thats how it looks. Hopefully with reviews coming out soon (supposed to be out today, but they pushed the NDA back), we will know for sure.

 

[Munky]

Sweet, I was hoping something like this comes along. This is how a dual card solution should have been designed.

 

[solofly]

That's ok, I rather have a matching set for best compatibility and performance. Nvidia mobo and Nvidia video. That would also apply if I was on the other side of the fence, if you know what I mean.

 

[5150Joker]

Even if it does work, what will the performance penalty be for not using an ATi chipset?

 

[Corporate Thug]

SWEET!

 

[Capt Caveman]

FWIW - the Asus P5WD2 is not a true sli-board. It uses the Intel 955x chipset but has dual video slots. But it was always rumored that it would be able to do crossfire and a crippled sli.

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: solofly
That's ok, I rather have a matching set for best compatibility and performance. Nvidia mobo and Nvidia video. That would also apply if I was on the other side of the fence, if you know what I mean.

How do you know performance will be better on a NV motherboard, with NV cards? We dont know yet. With single cards, the ATi chipsets are very fast, as fast as the NF4 from reviews I have read.

 

[nitromullet]

This is the type of stuff that review sites like AT need to be testing. SLI/Crossfire on nForce/ATI/Intel chipsets. This is the sort of thing that almost no home user could afford to do, and could potentially lean a purchase one way or another. We know that AT has had a Crossfire board, and we know that have SLI cards, why not try them out. If they don't work let us know.

 

[fierydemise]

I agree nitro a test of different dual and single card solutions on different motherboards would be a test that I'd love to see done.

 

[VERTIGGO]

what about the A8N32? could it be compatible with Crossfire as well?

 

[Dainas]

I'm currently 7800GTX SLI and I'm glad to hear this, more options in the future if AMD smartly keeps socket 939 somewhat supported for a few more years. I'm sure if they can be made to work it will well.. Nothing beat a 9700pro and Nforce 2 back in the day.

 

[n7]

Awesome!


Now this is something i'd be interested in

 

[tuteja1986]

well i just bought a Asus Crossfire A8R-MPV mobo i hope with an bios update or a hack it can run SLI too : )