X58 SLI compatibility Warning

[starboykb]

thinking about sharing with you guys about this news i saw on guru3D.

Guys, if you are in the market for an X58 motherboard, as stated in our article, make sure that IF you want to go SLI now or in the future, that your motherboard actually is SLI certified.

I can't warn and stress this enough.

A good example here is this guy in our forums who purchased a Gigabyte GA-EX58-DS4 motherboard, as it turns out .. these board do not support SLI apparently, despite being tagged as SLI certified on the NVIDIA SLI zone (that's horribly ****ed up really).

So if you have SLI in mind, read the specs and double-check. Or base your purchase of a review, but don't buy an X58 motherboard blind without verifying it's SLI compatible or not, unless you are certain that it is.

if that is true, then anyone have to be careful lol

[Adrian Wong]

All X58 motherboards do NOT support SLI. They only have native support for CrossFire.

Actually, SLI compatibility comes in two forms - either a hardware chip like nForce 200 SLI processor, or a simple BIOS string that enables SLI functionality through the graphics driver.

Basically, it's all about the money. NVIDIA intentionally disabled SLI support through the driver. If you, the motherboard manufacturer, want to add SLI support, then pay us a license fee for each motherboard (for the SLI BIOS string) or buy the nForce 200 SLI processor for your motherboad.