Intel chipsets don't support SLI but why?

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: n7
Why?

nVidia is greedy.

It's that simple.

Damn right There !!

Originally posted by: n7
There was one guy who hacked SLI drivers to work on other chipsets for a little while, but i'm sure nVidia did a good job threatening to kill him & who knows what else, as he stopped a long time ago.

There is more too it than that....


A Group of International Coders has worked together to develop a patch that allowed any Driver to be Used in Combination with 975x and any other Motherboard that had the proper characteristics to run SLI. Using the Newest Cards, and Motherboards.


There were four Teams, Israel, Taiwan, Sweden, and Russia.

The last I knew they had been flying very very low to stay off "The Radar"

I was involved with connecting a few of them, and some of the initial Web chats.

The last info that I heard is the Russian team was off the project, and the Israeli team was very close.

The Taiwan team had the Knowledge to make it happen, but no real time to help other than conceptual, and technical info.

If these guys pull it off NVIDIA will be in Very Deep Shit....

That is what can happen if you Fuck Your Customers Too Much !

 

[Cookie Monster]

Those contract agreements regrading CSI and such would have been made long time ago.

The real problem is the amount of necessary documents/info intel is willing to handover to nVIDIA which would obviously make life a hell for nVIDIA if there are too many instability issues due to the lack of data required. This same thing has happened with the 680i + penryn.

 

[BigMoosey74]

Originally posted by: Mr Fox

Originally posted by: n7
Why?

nVidia is greedy.

It's that simple.

Damn right There !!

Originally posted by: n7
There was one guy who hacked SLI drivers to work on other chipsets for a little while, but i'm sure nVidia did a good job threatening to kill him & who knows what else, as he stopped a long time ago.

There is more too it than that....


A Group of International Coders has worked together to develop a patch that allowed any Driver to be Used in Combination with 975x and any other Motherboard that had the proper characteristics to run SLI. Using the Newest Cards, and Motherboards.


There were four Teams, Israel, Taiwan, Sweden, and Russia.

The last I knew they had been flying very very low to stay off "The Radar"

I was involved with connecting a few of them, and some of the initial Web chats.

The last info that I heard is the Russian team was off the project, and the Israeli team was very close.

The Taiwan team had the Knowledge to make it happen, but no real time to help other than conceptual, and technical info.

If these guys pull it off NVIDIA will be in Very Deep Shit....

That is what can happen if you Fuck Your Customers Too Much !

I like that.

 

[v8envy]

Why would Intel want to do that? Intel is not in the business of helping NV sell graphics cards. Intel has been delivering great chipsets since the BX days. As pointed out, dual GPUs are a tiny fraction of the market. Combine that with a solution available from ATI now and no doubt one once Intel has their own GPU, and there's no need to ask NV to do anything.

If NV doesn't want to sell multiple GPUs to people who want them that's not Intel's problem.

 

[v8envy]

Originally posted by: Mr Fox


If these guys pull it off NVIDIA will be in Very Deep Shit....

That is what can happen if you Fuck Your Customers Too Much !

Oh yes, NV board of directors are just shaking in their boots at the prospect of selling twice as many GPUs to enthusiasts.

IMO nv loses more $ to people going Intel + crossfire route than they're extorting out of the very few willing to brave nvidia chipsets for intel + SLI.