Old Nvidia S3D and SLI Need a SLI motherboard for my pair of 7900 GTX's
Hey guys,
I have a question. I have a pair of 7900 GTX's and these I want to put in SLI using Forceware Build 94.24 (or 91.31) for my Old School S3D build. My EVGA P55 FTW SLI motherboard is not detected as a sli capable board under that driver set. I would like to know what would be the most modern Nforce chipset that I could use with that Forceware build (94.24) beyond Nforce 4 and 5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I have a question. I have a pair of 7900 GTX's and these I want to put in SLI using Forceware Build 94.24 (or 91.31) for my Old School S3D build. My EVGA P55 FTW SLI motherboard is not detected as a sli capable board under that driver set. I would like to know what would be the most modern Nforce chipset that I could use with that Forceware build (94.24) beyond Nforce 4 and 5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html[/url]
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html[/url]
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.[/quote]
Thanks for the reply chiz. I think they are reading a vendorID string. I think that is how some folks are tricking their motherboards into thinking they are X58 to run SLI on non-SLI certified motherboards. I wish the SLI certification for X58 and P55 was backwards compatible with older driver sets, but that doesn't appear to be the case, but I'm wondering if the nforce chipsets might be however.
If I have it my way here, I'm hoping to drop a 980i Nforce board in there with a Phenom II x2 555 BE (unlocked)which I already have for convenience sake as well as for future flexibility of the system. 790i or 750i wouldn't be bad either. But since I already have 4 gig of DDR3 sitting around, I'd opt for the 980i.
I think it's going to take a very technical person to give me the answer here or at least someone with the experience, and I don't really want to blow $150 just to try it out as the guinea pig. It would be safer at that point just to opt for an Asus M2N32 SLI (nforce 590) and be done with it (which I think with a bios rev they actually support that CPU above, gotta love the flexibility of the AM2 socket).
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
Thanks for the reply chiz. I think they are reading a vendorID string. I think that is how some folks are tricking their motherboards into thinking they are X58 to run SLI on non-SLI certified motherboards. I wish the SLI certification for X58 and P55 was backwards compatible with older driver sets, but that doesn't appear to be the case, but I'm wondering if the nforce chipsets might be however.
If I have it my way here, I'm hoping to drop a 980i Nforce board in there with a Phenom II x2 555 BE (unlocked)which I already have for convenience sake as well as for future flexibility of the system. 790i or 750i wouldn't be bad either. But since I already have 4 gig of DDR3 sitting around, I'd opt for the 980i.
I think it's going to take a very technical person to give me the answer here or at least someone with the experience, and I don't really want to blow $150 just to try it out as the guinea pig. It would be safer at that point just to opt for an Asus M2N32 SLI (nforce 590) and be done with it (which I think with a bios rev they actually support that CPU above, gotta love the flexibility of the AM2 socket).
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html[/url]
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.[/quote]
Well I just had a chat with Nvidia Tech support and they said that the 9X.XX series drivers should recognize ANY of the Nforce SLI boards as SLI certified...hmmm...
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
Well I just had a chat with Nvidia Tech support and they said that the 9X.XX series drivers should recognize ANY of the Nforce SLI boards as SLI certified...hmmm...
I have a question. I have a pair of 7900 GTX's and these I want to put in SLI using Forceware Build 94.24 (or 91.31) for my Old School S3D build. My EVGA P55 FTW SLI motherboard is not detected as a sli capable board under that driver set. I would like to know what would be the most modern Nforce chipset that I could use with that Forceware build (94.24) beyond Nforce 4 and 5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
photios
I have a question. I have a pair of 7900 GTX's and these I want to put in SLI using Forceware Build 94.24 (or 91.31) for my Old School S3D build. My EVGA P55 FTW SLI motherboard is not detected as a sli capable board under that driver set. I would like to know what would be the most modern Nforce chipset that I could use with that Forceware build (94.24) beyond Nforce 4 and 5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
photios
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html[/url]
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
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94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html[/url]
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.[/quote]
Thanks for the reply chiz. I think they are reading a vendorID string. I think that is how some folks are tricking their motherboards into thinking they are X58 to run SLI on non-SLI certified motherboards. I wish the SLI certification for X58 and P55 was backwards compatible with older driver sets, but that doesn't appear to be the case, but I'm wondering if the nforce chipsets might be however.
If I have it my way here, I'm hoping to drop a 980i Nforce board in there with a Phenom II x2 555 BE (unlocked)which I already have for convenience sake as well as for future flexibility of the system. 790i or 750i wouldn't be bad either. But since I already have 4 gig of DDR3 sitting around, I'd opt for the 980i.
I think it's going to take a very technical person to give me the answer here or at least someone with the experience, and I don't really want to blow $150 just to try it out as the guinea pig. It would be safer at that point just to opt for an Asus M2N32 SLI (nforce 590) and be done with it (which I think with a bios rev they actually support that CPU above, gotta love the flexibility of the AM2 socket).
photios
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
Thanks for the reply chiz. I think they are reading a vendorID string. I think that is how some folks are tricking their motherboards into thinking they are X58 to run SLI on non-SLI certified motherboards. I wish the SLI certification for X58 and P55 was backwards compatible with older driver sets, but that doesn't appear to be the case, but I'm wondering if the nforce chipsets might be however.
If I have it my way here, I'm hoping to drop a 980i Nforce board in there with a Phenom II x2 555 BE (unlocked)which I already have for convenience sake as well as for future flexibility of the system. 790i or 750i wouldn't be bad either. But since I already have 4 gig of DDR3 sitting around, I'd opt for the 980i.
I think it's going to take a very technical person to give me the answer here or at least someone with the experience, and I don't really want to blow $150 just to try it out as the guinea pig. It would be safer at that point just to opt for an Asus M2N32 SLI (nforce 590) and be done with it (which I think with a bios rev they actually support that CPU above, gotta love the flexibility of the AM2 socket).
photios
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: [url="http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html"]http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html[/url]
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.[/quote]
Well I just had a chat with Nvidia Tech support and they said that the 9X.XX series drivers should recognize ANY of the Nforce SLI boards as SLI certified...hmmm...
94.24 shows as May 2007 release date: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24.html
That puts it right in the middle of the 650i/680i LGA775 window. I ran two different 650i boards with mixed results, Asus P5N-E which had a lot of problems with high voltage Micron D9 RAM and a MSI P6N Platinum that is still functioning great for a relative. These boards are PCIe 1.1 x8/x8 boards so effective PCIe 2.0 x4/x4. The 680i was PCIe 1.1 x16/x16 but there were a few problems I remember at launch to the point EVGA was replacing early editions for free. I forget all the problems with it but it definitely had some problems.
I would maybe e-mail Nvidia tech support and ask them if a 750i/780i/790i would work even though they released after that driver release date; if the drivers are just reading a vendorID string from the BIOS it shouldn't matter when the board was actually released if that makes sense. I would even check some of the BIOS hack threads where people are tricking the drivers into allowing SLI on older Intel chipsets like X38/X48 to see if you can get a lead there on how the driver checks SLI capability.
Not a huge difference I don't think with a pair of 7800GTX, but the 700 series boards were PCIe 2.0 and are guaranteed to support 45nm Penryn CPUs whereas the older 600 series were hit or miss with BIOS revisions. Definitely do a quick check of people running those boards still with the CPU you plan to run them with.
Well I just had a chat with Nvidia Tech support and they said that the 9X.XX series drivers should recognize ANY of the Nforce SLI boards as SLI certified...hmmm...