NF4 standard Vs SLI

[Ham]

Soooo

Im doing a no-money-spent upgrade. You heard me. Basicly selling all my parts off and buying better clocking ones for the same price.

My question is this:

Which chipset out of the NF4 range should i go for, Standard or SLI.

Im thinking of getting a DFI Infinity (yes, i know nicks, and im not listening to you). Im after more advanced voltage control than on my current ASRock, and these boards offer it dirt cheap.

All the reviews ive read say both boards are good, just no fancy-pants crap which i dont use anyway. So SLI or Standard chipset?

 

[Hyper]

I own a SLI-DR as I bought it incase I wanted to SLI in the future which I doubt I will but its good to know you have it. As for differences I dont think there is any apart from one being SLI compatable and the other not

 

[FragTek]

I've used both and they're both equally as great IMO. I'd probably urge you to go SLI though so that you do have that upgrade path if u wish to use it down the road.

 

[Ham]

Cheers for the input guys. The SLI is £10 more, but i think i can strech that lol. Cheers guys

 

[FarFarAway]

Cheers for the input guys. The SLI is £10 more, but i think i can strech that lol. Cheers guys

Deffo worth a stretch mate. The chipset is basically the same but you never know if you'll want it

 

[Ham]

Well in 6months when my 7800GT struggles at top end graphicis ill stick another one or two mid DX10 cards in.

Add: well this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/114697

is now winging its way to me.

 

[Nagaru]

Have you heard about modifying the chipset to make it an sli version, I think you have to short some points on the chip.

 

[Ham]

Or ill just buy one... As i already have.

 

[FragTek]

I'm pretty sure that nVidia fixed the chipset so that you couldn't mod it to SLI. I know u could do that with the early version Ultra-D's and then word got about that they changed something so you could no longer do that.

 

[PV5150]

I'm pretty sure that nVidia fixed the chipset so that you couldn't mod it to SLI. I know u could do that with the early version Ultra-D's and then word got about that they changed something so you could no longer do that.

Affirmative, they certainly did! Motherboard manufacturers were instructed not to include the bridge, and the drivers picked it up too that you weren't running the correct chipset afaik

 

[mrbeef]

i use a dfi sli-dr with 6800gts and its a prity gd board

loads and loads of overclocking stuff and ram timming stuff way more than any other board ive tried