Get SLI for your P45!!

[nepas]

SOURCE

Special thanks to Firewings [CCG]

Intel X58 is the First and only non-NVIDIA chipset to get SLI technology, and the users of Intel X38/X48/P45 motherboards probably hate the fact that their hardware doesn’t support SLI. However, everything has changed now…

One reader named Firewings [CCG] at Expreview forum (Chinese version) has figured out the way to get SLI support for its Asus Maximus Formula motherboard based on Intel X38 chipset, with one NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT and one GeForce GTX 260 graphics card.

Expreview.com has contacted the reader and run a quick test for validation. We chose Intel QX9650 OC (4GHz) CPU, Asus Maximus II Formular motherboard, one Yeston GeForce GTX260+ 896GD3, and one Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ graphics card for the test.

By installing the software that Firewings [CCG] provides us, we managed to enable SLI configuration in Directory Services Restore Mode. Due to some “small problems” according to Firewings [CCG], the SLI configuration can’t be realized in normal mode for now, but he says this will be fixed soon.

We utilize 3DMark Vantage software to check out the performance, and it shows as P20483, which is very close to the SLI performance of dual GTX260.

Firewings [CCG] says the cracking itself is not difficult at all, but he needs to test this on different motherboards before taking this to universal use.

Nvidia are not going to be happy,I really hope this guy cant get the bugs out as I would like this for my DFI X38

 

[Rastalovich]

Chances are, like b4, they'll get a copy of what he's doing and have the newer drivers check for it or something.

Excellent piece of hackery, all things being equal.

 

[noobieocer]

wow, is it only x38 boards or do they work on p45?

 

[nepas]

Chances are, like b4, they'll get a copy of what he's doing and have the newer drivers check for it or something.

Excellent piece of hackery, all things being equal.

yeah,just like they did with the drivers for the old NF4 chips,but tbh if he gets it working then I will happily just stick with older drivers,I am sick of Nvid releasing drivers every two weeks that do not seem to be improvements over the previous ones

 

[Rastalovich]

Yeah, it seems that the drivers at times are being released in the reverse of what their intension should be.

Rather than - "this is the driver to get the best out the card - FULL STOP"

We get version 2.198.187.00 - "added tweak for Game X, Game Y, Game Z" "20% faster, 30% faster", which does appear silly.