Nvidia Now Allowing Different BIOS and Makers for SLi

[FarFarAway]

Nvidia are running scared of ATI it seems. The ability to grab any x800/x850 card and throw it with a XFire card has obviously forced nvidia to re-consider SLI.

So what am I on about??

Well it seems that they have deigned to allow the consumer to pair together cards with different BIOS's and different makes to form an SLi setup

Now that IS good news!

This was in some wadawada article about 6600's coming to ordeinary desktop platforms, but it looks like nvidia have made their drivers allow different cards in SLi:

Still, buying one GeForce 6600 and adding another one after some time may be a feasible upgrade path as NVIDIA promised that from now on its multi-GPU technology will allow graphics cards with different BIOS versions and from different manufacturers to work in collaboration, thanks to new drivers. Up to now graphics cards from one maker and with similar BIOS versions were needed for multi-GPU operation.

that's good then. No more worrying if the GPU manufactorer you choose ends the line/goes out of business!!

I'm happy anyway

Article @ X-Bit Labs

 

[enVias]

That's great news Go nVidia w00t!

 

[FalconFX]

Nvidia are running scared of ATI it seems. The ability to grab any x800/x850 card and throw it with a XFire card has obviously forced nvidia to re-consider SLI.

So what am I on about??

Well it seems that they have deigned to allow the consumer to pair together cards with different BIOS's and different makes to form an SLi setup

Now that IS good news!

This was in some wadawada article about 6600's coming to ordeinary desktop platforms, but it looks like nvidia have made their drivers allow different cards in SLi:

that's good then. No more worrying if the GPU manufactorer you choose ends the line/goes out of business!!

I'm happy anyway

Article @ X-Bit Labs

XFire = Crossfire

weeeeh !!!! so that means i can finally add a 68 GT to my 68 U ?