- Jul 16, 2001
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Hey guys...been floating the idea around in my head for a while, and was having a real hard time finding a good second PCI-e Geforce 6200 128bit non Turbocache card...but I've finally got two.
The idea came to me when I had learned Nvidia's latest drivers at the time allowed 6600's to do bridgeless SLI, and also when I had figured out how to change the DeviceID of my Leadtek 6200 to be displayed as a 6600. My 6200 was modded into a 6600. For all intents and purposes, it was a 6600, so SLI should technically work if the drivers could be tricked. I got both cards for $50 a pop over @ the egg's refurb section, so I thought $100 SLI, after modding and overclocking, would actually give me some pretty decent performance for a budget price and be cool as hell to boot.
Well, like I said...got my second Leadtek 6200, and it too unlocks into a fully fledged 6600 as well. I took off the HSF on my NF4 Ultra northbridge, and with a conductive pen, painted over the two connections that needed to be reunited. After bootup, my board was recognized as a DFI NF4 SLi-D. Next, I set the SLI jumpers, and slapped in both cards. I've got the 79.11 drivers both installed for them.
Right now, I'm trying to change the DeviceID of the secondary card. Rivatuner won't let me for some reason. It will give me full access to the primary card's DeviceID and Pixel Shaders, but not the second. I'm using an older version, so I'm going to attempt to try it with a new version of Rivatuner. Will update this when that is done, + :camera:. More to come
*UPDATE* Having issues, please see latest post and see if you can help me out.
*PICS* Pic1Pic2Pic3
The idea came to me when I had learned Nvidia's latest drivers at the time allowed 6600's to do bridgeless SLI, and also when I had figured out how to change the DeviceID of my Leadtek 6200 to be displayed as a 6600. My 6200 was modded into a 6600. For all intents and purposes, it was a 6600, so SLI should technically work if the drivers could be tricked. I got both cards for $50 a pop over @ the egg's refurb section, so I thought $100 SLI, after modding and overclocking, would actually give me some pretty decent performance for a budget price and be cool as hell to boot.
Well, like I said...got my second Leadtek 6200, and it too unlocks into a fully fledged 6600 as well. I took off the HSF on my NF4 Ultra northbridge, and with a conductive pen, painted over the two connections that needed to be reunited. After bootup, my board was recognized as a DFI NF4 SLi-D. Next, I set the SLI jumpers, and slapped in both cards. I've got the 79.11 drivers both installed for them.
Right now, I'm trying to change the DeviceID of the secondary card. Rivatuner won't let me for some reason. It will give me full access to the primary card's DeviceID and Pixel Shaders, but not the second. I'm using an older version, so I'm going to attempt to try it with a new version of Rivatuner. Will update this when that is done, + :camera:. More to come
*UPDATE* Having issues, please see latest post and see if you can help me out.
*PICS* Pic1Pic2Pic3