SLI patch: makes all dual pci-e mobos SLI capable

[paulxcook]

http://www.ngohq.com/showthread.php?t=5366

I may try this tomorrow on my day off with my nf4 Ultra-D board: I'll post back with results if I do.

If they could do this with crossfire as well, it'd be great. I could run dual cards from either core manufacturer on my mobo of choice.

But will nVidia allow this for very long? What can they do to stop it?

 

[fbrdphreak]

First, how dare you link NGO here.

Second, the nF4 Ultra-D has had an SLI mod out for quite a while.

Third, I'd be ready to clean up some damage. An untested patch from that crowd....no thanks.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
First, how dare you link NGO here.

Second, the nF4 Ultra-D has had an SLI mod out for quite a while.

Third, I'd be ready to clean up some damage. An untested patch from that crowd....no thanks.

I know about the sli mod for the Ultra-D. I just wonder if this one would work.

I've never even heard of NGO before today, what's wrong with them?

 

[nitromullet]

I wonder if this would would work on RD480..?

But will nVidia allow this for very long? What can they do to stop it?

They should. Actually, AMD should push both NV and ATI to make their respective solutions work on each oithers' chipsets. I have considered switching to Intel because from what I understand both will work on the Intel chipsets. Obviously, I don't want to do this because the superior performance of the AMD chips, but this probably won't last forever... What will happen to AMD's gamer niche market if Intel actually puts out a chip worth buying for high end gaming? Right now, AMD themselves are the only thing keeping them in gamers' rigs, I think they should push NV and ATI to help them.

 

[Vinnybcfc]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I know about the sli mod for the Ultra-D. I just wonder if this one would work.

I've never even heard of NGO before today, what's wrong with them?

http://www.ngohq.com/showthread.php?t=3443&highlight=anandtech

Thats why NGO shouldn't be mentioned they claimed Anandtech took parts of one of there articles which was false

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Vinnybcfc

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I know about the sli mod for the Ultra-D. I just wonder if this one would work.

I've never even heard of NGO before today, what's wrong with them?

http://www.ngohq.com/showthread.php?t=3443&highlight=anandtech

Thats why NGO shouldn't be mentioned they claimed Anandtech took parts of one of there articles which was false

And immediatly following the accusation Anandtech came under attack from massive DDoS attacks... Which was probably indirectly related (some douche on their forums or something).

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
First, how dare you link NGO here.

Second, the nF4 Ultra-D has had an SLI mod out for quite a while.

Third, I'd be ready to clean up some damage. An untested patch from that crowd....no thanks.

ummm, this may be a good mod for those people who DONT have the Ultra-D

 

[nitromullet]

Yeah, I think the point is non-nForce4 chipsets... The DFI Ultra-D is unique in that it is an nForce4 Ultra cipset mobo with two physical PCIe x16 slots.

This is cool, but even better would be a patch that lets you run CrossFire in an SLI mobo.

 

[Ronin]

*coughs* This guy is a joke (Regeneration). He's been trying to get a hold of me to get information I wasn't willing to give him BECAUSE he was from NGO.

To whit:

http://server.counter-strike.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40269

He's posting other people's news (it's on DailyTech, too).

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=971

 

[Yreka]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
but even better would be a patch that lets you run CrossFire in an SLI mobo.

:thumbsup:

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Ronin
*coughs* This guy is a joke (Regeneration). He's been trying to get a hold of me to get information I wasn't willing to give him BECAUSE he was from NGO.

To whit:

http://server.counter-strike.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40269

He's posting other people's news (it's on DailyTech, too).

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=971

That dailytech article has more detail and clears things up a bit.

Intel, SiS, VIA and ATI opted out of paying the NVIDIA license fee for SLI.

That is a bunch of BS though... ATI and NV need to work with each other a bit more than this IMO. I think they could both benefit by giving the consumer more choices instead of trying to box us in to a gpu/chipset combo. If people start opting for Intel over either of them, they both lose.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: Vinnybcfc

Originally posted by: paulxcook
I know about the sli mod for the Ultra-D. I just wonder if this one would work.

I've never even heard of NGO before today, what's wrong with them?

http://www.ngohq.com/showthread.php?t=3443&highlight=anandtech

Thats why NGO shouldn't be mentioned they claimed Anandtech took parts of one of there articles which was false

And immediatly following the accusation Anandtech came under attack from massive DDoS attacks... Which was probably indirectly related (some douche on their forums or something).

Oh I remember that, didn't some nutjob on their forums start physically threatening some of the ATers that were posting over there? Boy was that ugly.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: Ronin
*coughs* This guy is a joke (Regeneration). He's been trying to get a hold of me to get information I wasn't willing to give him BECAUSE he was from NGO.

To whit:

http://server.counter-strike.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40269

He's posting other people's news (it's on DailyTech, too).

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=971

That dailytech article has more detail and clears things up a bit.

Intel, SiS, VIA and ATI opted out of paying the NVIDIA license fee for SLI.

That is a bunch of BS though... ATI and NV need to work with each other a bit more than this IMO. I think they could both benefit by giving the consumer more choices instead of trying to box us in to a gpu/chipset combo. If people start opting for Intel over either of them, they both lose.

Precisely. You think nvidia nforce2 would have been as popular as it was if it had trouble with ati cards?

 

[Ronin]

Doh...anyway....hahahaha..check this out:

RegenerationDon?t even bother come to my website and try to cause grief. I tried to contact you and give you the exclusive for posting the lost patch from Asrock but you ignored me. I don?t give a ****** why.

Whatever, prick. You didn't do dick for work aside from trying to look for a couple of files. You did NOT find this, so don't take credit for it.

As far as why you contacted me, your PMs were pretty clear, so don't try to sugarcoat your inability to find news on your own.

How DARE you fvcking accuse AT for sh!t that YOU just did. What a plagaristic fvck you are.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Ronin
Doh...anyway....hahahaha..check this out:

RegenerationDon?t even bother come to my website and try to cause grief. I tried to contact you and give you the exclusive for posting the lost patch from Asrock but you ignored me. I don?t give a ****** why.

Whatever, prick. You didn't do dick for work aside from trying to look for a couple of files. You did NOT find this, so don't take credit for it.

As far as why you contacted me, your PMs were pretty clear, so don't try to sugarcoat your inability to find news on your own.

How DARE you fvcking accuse AT for sh!t that YOU just did. What a plagaristic fvck you are.

Um, remind me to try and stay on your good side

 

[Ronin]

He was dead wrong, plain and simple.

Add another AT member to the banned list.

 

[AthlonAlien]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Yeah, I think the point is non-nForce4 chipsets... The DFI Ultra-D is unique in that it is an nForce4 Ultra cipset mobo with two physical PCIe x16 slots.

This is cool, but even better would be a patch that lets you run CrossFire in an SLI mobo.

This is incorrect. It has 1 PCIe x16 slot. DFI doesn't make any nForce4 motherboards with 2 PCIe x16 slots. The Ultra-D (in stock form) can run in normal mode (which is 1 graphics card in the top PCIe x16 slot) or in "alternate" mode (which is 1 graphics card in the bottom x8 PCIe slot). It can also run in DXG mode (which is 2 graphics cards... 1 in the top PCIe slot running at x16 and 1 in the bottom PCIe slot running at x2). To make the Ultra-D capable of SLI, you need to remove the chipset cooler and connect 2 points (a CircuitWriter pen is recommended, but a pencil will do okay). After the SLI mod, the board is capable of running full SLI (which is 2 cards - both running at PCIe x8 each). If you are wanting to run SLI x16 (which is both cards running at PCIe x16), you will need to look somewhere other than DFI... like ASUS for example.

 

[paulxcook]

I've been watching various forums and so far it seems no one who's tried it has gotten it to work.

 

[ND40oz]

I'll try to get it working this weekend on my gigabyte 975 board. I ordered two 7800GTs and my buddy has one of them, I'll see if I can swap him the spare gto2 i have for the weekend and see if I can get this working. Gigabyte shipped a SLI bridge as well, so as long as the patch works, I should have working SLI.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: AthlonAlien

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Yeah, I think the point is non-nForce4 chipsets... The DFI Ultra-D is unique in that it is an nForce4 Ultra cipset mobo with two physical PCIe x16 slots.

This is cool, but even better would be a patch that lets you run CrossFire in an SLI mobo.

This is incorrect. It has 1 PCIe x16 slot. DFI doesn't make any nForce4 motherboards with 2 PCIe x16 slots. The Ultra-D (in stock form) can run in normal mode (which is 1 graphics card in the top PCIe x16 slot) or in "alternate" mode (which is 1 graphics card in the bottom x8 PCIe slot). It can also run in DXG mode (which is 2 graphics cards... 1 in the top PCIe slot running at x16 and 1 in the bottom PCIe slot running at x2). To make the Ultra-D capable of SLI, you need to remove the chipset cooler and connect 2 points (a CircuitWriter pen is recommended, but a pencil will do okay). After the SLI mod, the board is capable of running full SLI (which is 2 cards - both running at PCIe x8 each). If you are wanting to run SLI x16 (which is both cards running at PCIe x16), you will need to look somewhere other than DFI... like ASUS for example.

note the word "physical" in my post...

 

[AthlonAlien]

Well, it's kind of misleading... Perhaps one could say it physically has 1 x16 slot and 1 x8 slot (since there is no way the second PCIe slot can do x16).

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: AthlonAlien

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Yeah, I think the point is non-nForce4 chipsets... The DFI Ultra-D is unique in that it is an nForce4 Ultra cipset mobo with two physical PCIe x16 slots.

This is cool, but even better would be a patch that lets you run CrossFire in an SLI mobo.

This is incorrect. It has 1 PCIe x16 slot. DFI doesn't make any nForce4 motherboards with 2 PCIe x16 slots. The Ultra-D (in stock form) can run in normal mode (which is 1 graphics card in the top PCIe x16 slot) or in "alternate" mode (which is 1 graphics card in the bottom x8 PCIe slot). It can also run in DXG mode (which is 2 graphics cards... 1 in the top PCIe slot running at x16 and 1 in the bottom PCIe slot running at x2). To make the Ultra-D capable of SLI, you need to remove the chipset cooler and connect 2 points (a CircuitWriter pen is recommended, but a pencil will do okay). After the SLI mod, the board is capable of running full SLI (which is 2 cards - both running at PCIe x8 each). If you are wanting to run SLI x16 (which is both cards running at PCIe x16), you will need to look somewhere other than DFI... like ASUS for example.

DFI Expert is 16x/16x

 

[Munky]

Well, I did the SLI mod on my Ultra-D earlier this week, and it worked. But it's a physical mod, where you connect 2 pins on top of the nf4 chip, using a pencil. I'd be skeptical of any other similar mod that did not involve conecting the 2 pins. And it only worked because the Ultra-D is identical to the real SLI board except for the chipset.

 

[AthlonAlien]

Originally posted by: Matt2

Originally posted by: AthlonAlien

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Yeah, I think the point is non-nForce4 chipsets... The DFI Ultra-D is unique in that it is an nForce4 Ultra cipset mobo with two physical PCIe x16 slots.

This is cool, but even better would be a patch that lets you run CrossFire in an SLI mobo.

This is incorrect. It has 1 PCIe x16 slot. DFI doesn't make any nForce4 motherboards with 2 PCIe x16 slots. The Ultra-D (in stock form) can run in normal mode (which is 1 graphics card in the top PCIe x16 slot) or in "alternate" mode (which is 1 graphics card in the bottom x8 PCIe slot). It can also run in DXG mode (which is 2 graphics cards... 1 in the top PCIe slot running at x16 and 1 in the bottom PCIe slot running at x2). To make the Ultra-D capable of SLI, you need to remove the chipset cooler and connect 2 points (a CircuitWriter pen is recommended, but a pencil will do okay). After the SLI mod, the board is capable of running full SLI (which is 2 cards - both running at PCIe x8 each). If you are wanting to run SLI x16 (which is both cards running at PCIe x16), you will need to look somewhere other than DFI... like ASUS for example.

DFI Expert is 16x/16x

Wrong!!

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: munky
Well, I did the SLI mod on my Ultra-D earlier this week, and it worked. But it's a physical mod, where you connect 2 pins on top of the nf4 chip, using a pencil. I'd be skeptical of any other similar mod that did not involve conecting the 2 pins. And it only worked because the Ultra-D is identical to the real SLI board except for the chipset.

Did yours have some "goop" on top of the pins you had to connect?

Mine did, had to take a razorblade to my NF4 chip. :shocked: