Has anyone managed an SLI Hack on a CHIV Formula?

gcwebbyuk

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• Dec 26, 2010

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I have the above board, and would like to get SLI working, but the board is Crossfire only.

I have seen a variety of people saying they have had it running with SLI, but I don't see any proof that this is the case, or how they did it.

I don't "really" need to run SLI, but just fancy splashing out on a second 460 to boost frame rates and PPD when folding (although this doesn't need SLI).

So anyone on here done it and has info on how to?

 

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Here's a link you might want to read through.

Apht3rThawt said:

There is a patch for amd sli that supposedly works without hydra fusion. I'm considering it. Looks bulky with boot mods.

http://xdevs.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.30

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I have seen a couple of people post on here who have done it. One with no problems at all and one that went through a week of problems to get it working, and not working well even then. Don't know if it was the operator or the hardware that made the difference.

 

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That is the thread I have been reading.

Thing is it looks like old hardware in the pics - not sure if it will work with 2 460s.

 

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I take that back - it shows the board working with 2 x 470s

 

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I have that board and did no hack at all just slapped in 460s and everything went smooth. Maybe I got lucky idk. GL

 

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Bigbear40s said:

I have that board and did no hack at all just slapped in 460s and everything went smooth. Maybe I got lucky idk. GL

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Installing two cards doesn't make the driver run SLI.

 

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petteyg359 said:

Installing two cards doesn't make the driver run SLI.

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^As above. Did you do any testing to make sure it was working? Did the nVidia control panel say the cards were running in sli mode?

 

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Gave up on running that for the moment, have bought an EVGA GTS450 and running it standalone for folding / PhysX - got it watercooled by my old resorator

 

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GTS 450 has been placed in my media pc and I have bought another MSI GTX460 1GB...

SLI hack worked! bit more noisy now though...