sli config

[pwnedbyscope]

I got another video card, same as my first one, and i want to run it in sli, however i dont have have an sli certified board, so can i run it in sli or would i have to get a new board

[TheTerminator2004]

You'd need a new board.

 

Though, I'm not sure if Crossfire-capable boards can do SLI or not, and vice-versa. What board do you have atm?

[cacophany]

You'd need a new board.

 

Though, I'm not sure if Crossfire-capable boards can do SLI or not, and vice-versa. What board do you have atm?

 

It depends. If you have the right amount of PCI-E slots sometimes flashing the bios with one for a slightly higher end model in the same line will let you do sli on a non sli board. I remember having to do this for a gigabyte board before it became officially supported.

[Balagor]

I would not bother trying out installing SLI on a CROSSFIRE board and vice versa.

It´s doomed to fail.

You´r going to by a new mobo anyway,

so you why not just by a proper one?

 

If it´s NVidia, it´s SLI.

If it´s ATI it´s CROSSFIRE.

 

Simple as that.

[cacophany]

I would not bother trying out installing SLI on a CROSSFIRE board and vice versa.

It´s doomed to fail.

You´r going to by a new mobo anyway,

so you why not just by a proper one?

 

If it´s NVidia, it´s SLI.

If it´s ATI it´s CROSSFIRE.

 

Simple as that.

No, it's really not doomed to fail. It could be done on my motherboard which didn't have SLI supported originally.

 

Flashing with a higher end models bios solved the problem. But now even the official bios allows both SLI and Crossfire.