SLI using ATI cards on nForce mobo?

[Damien]

I started wondering what it would take to make two ATI cards work on an nForce4 SLI motherboard? At that point, how about two Geforce cards on an ATI Crossfire mobo? Is it something that could be reverse engineered or would it simply cost each side too much to bother with? Its too bad there isn't an agreed upon standard for doing this, with motherboards boasting more and more bandwidth for PCI-E cards it'd be really cool to be able to buy the board you want and then pick the card you want based on its features, rather than being tied to any one manufacturer.

Damien

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Just won't work. Driver support? Nope.

Its too bad there isn't an agreed upon standard for doing this

With both nVidia and ATI trying to make their way into the chipset market, you'd expect competition like this. Besides, nVidia was way early in the game for SLI compared to ATI, you think nVidia would have supported SLI'ng ATI cards? Pfft. No way. This was one of the main selling points of SLI anyways.

I dont understand, you've been registered for 6 years and you only have 70 posts? Go to OT and that number will increase exponentially 😛.

 

[vailr]

There was an Intel announcement of a new "dual-use" chipset 975 (?) that is designed to support both: dual NVIDIA (SLI) or also dual ATI (Crossfire).
It's not for sale yet.
Obviously, it would only work with Intel CPU's.

 

[HighCalibreHooch]

Besides, forcing nvidia, ATI, Intel & AMD to conform to a single standard smacks of communism. 😉 Welcome to City 17!

Seriously though, great idea.

 

[lifeguard1999]

Never mind that ATI's xFire is not even available yet.