mobo does not support SLI

NTM2003 · Mar 14, 2017

so my mobo does not support SLI, so what will happen If I do it anyways? SLI 1070s just a thought.

newtekie1 · Mar 14, 2017

You'll spend a bunch of money on a second GTX1070, plug it in, and the option to enable SLI will never show up.

NTM2003 · Mar 14, 2017

Should have done more research on that mobo but when I brought it I just didn't know if I wanted to do SLI at the time but if it's that pointless I save for a 1080ti that will take me to summer time but I'm sure it's worth the wait.

eidairaman1 · Mar 14, 2017

NTM2003 said:
Should have done more research on that mobo but when I brought it I just didn't know if I wanted to do SLI at the time but if it's that pointless I save for a 1080ti that will take me to summer time but I'm sure it's worth the wait.

Impulse buy lmao

INSTG8R · Mar 14, 2017

Interesting it's apparently Crossfire compatible tho...

AhokZYashA · Mar 14, 2017

i thought all Z series chipset and mobo supports SLI,
some manufacturers decide to disable it for some reason then

INSTG8R · Mar 14, 2017

AhokZYashA said:
i thought all Z series chipset and mobo supports SLI,
some manufacturers decide to disable it for some reason then

Yeah exactly. I mean if you can do one surely you can do the other.

AhokZYashA · Mar 14, 2017

especially if it was marketed as a "GAMING" board

eidairaman1 · Mar 14, 2017

INSTG8R said:
Yeah exactly. I mean if you can do one surely you can do the other.

As long as the bridge chip is on there, like my board has.

R-T-B · Mar 14, 2017

INSTG8R said:
Yeah exactly. I mean if you can do one surely you can do the other.

SLI requires a special chip or whitelist thing, basically the board has to pay licensing to nvidia or no workie.

INSTG8R · Mar 14, 2017

R-T-B said:
SLI requires a special chip or whitelist thing, basically the board has to pay licensing to nvidia or no workie.

Why does that not surprise me....

dorsetknob · Mar 14, 2017

Note this ^^^^

R-T-B said:
SLI requires a special chip or whitelist thing, basically the board has to pay licensing to nvidia or no workie.

AMD and partners were very specific which chipsets /boards would support SLI due to the SLI tax

R-T-B · Mar 14, 2017

INSTG8R said:
Why does that not surprise me....

It does fit the "ngreedia" stereotype to a tee, doesn't it? One of their lamest moves IMO.

INSTG8R · Mar 14, 2017

R-T-B said:
It does fit the "ngreedia" stereotype to a tee, doesn't it? One of their lamest moves IMO.

Indeed, being a lifelong ATI/AMD user I just take their open approach for granted.

eidairaman1 · Mar 14, 2017

R-T-B said:
It does fit the "ngreedia" stereotype to a tee, doesn't it? One of their lamest moves IMO.

Considering in the Day Intel supported Crossfire only, Nvidia was SLi only chipset for AMD or Intel. Either way both cpu makes were still paying a SLi tax anyway like they are today.

R-T-B · Mar 14, 2017

eidairaman1 said:
Considering in the Day Intel supported Crossfire only, Nvidia was SLi only chipset for AMD or Intel. Either way both cpu makes were still paying a SLi tax anyway like they are today.

Interesting bit of trivia, but nvidia is still being greedy here, which is my main point.

newtekie1 · Mar 15, 2017

R-T-B said:
Interesting bit of trivia, but nvidia is still being greedy here, which is my main point.

Yeah, kind of. But the actual cost is pennies per board. MSI is pretty greedy here to charge so much for a motherboard and not bother to get the SLI certification for it. There are much cheaper boards on the market that do have the SLI certification.

R-T-B · Mar 15, 2017

newtekie1 said:
Yeah, kind of. But the actual cost is pennies per board. MSI is pretty greedy here to charge so much for a motherboard and not bother to get the SLI certification for it. There are much cheaper boards on the market that do have the SLI certification.

True.

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