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GA-MA790X-UD3P grafics cards config

j2o

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GA-MA790X-UD3P grafics cards config
« on: April 22, 2010, 01:17:17 pm »
hi guys ,now with this board it has crossfire support ,  i know you can use 1 geforce card  slot1 x16, can you go sli with geforce cards? &  is that X8 or x16 . can you go multi GPU mode with geforce cards slot 1x16 & slot 2x8?

the 2 cards i have are gts250 1gbOc  & 9600gt 512 Oc   & vista 64 home prem sp2

many thanks
« Last Edit: April 22, 2010, 01:34:53 pm by j2o »
GA-MA790X-UD3P ,X4 9850be,XMAS2cl4 800mhz, BFG GTS250 1GBoc & M4N98TD EVO,X4 B50be, gskill DDR3 1600 1.5v cl9. X2  inno3d 9600GToc DDR3 512

j2o

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Re: GA-MA790X-UD3P grafics cards config
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2010, 10:31:09 am »
thats the pc to getter now tad faster
cpu phenom II x4 B50
ram xmas2 800cl4  555 18 2T
pci-e1 bfg gts250 1gb oc
pci-e2 inno3d 960gt 512 oc

os vista 64 home prem

any body the best way to configure thrugh nvdia control panel i have physics disabled at the moment ,HT set to x16 & PEG set in the bios

should this board have ATI control center rather than nvdia control panel ?
GA-MA790X-UD3P ,X4 9850be,XMAS2cl4 800mhz, BFG GTS250 1GBoc & M4N98TD EVO,X4 B50be, gskill DDR3 1600 1.5v cl9. X2  inno3d 9600GToc DDR3 512

Re: GA-MA790X-UD3P grafics cards config
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2010, 03:32:13 pm »
you cannot use sli on a crossfire board as far as i understand

j2o

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Re: GA-MA790X-UD3P grafics cards config
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2010, 08:35:05 pm »
seems like both cards are running x8  but there aint sli thrugh nvdia control panel & the cards even 1 at a time in slot1 seem to be clocked back just a tad

AMD overdrive dosent support nvdia cards . neather dose ET6 2.1
cpuz & gpuz & amd Nbench 32bit o/s   all work fine

maybe time to change to ATI
GA-MA790X-UD3P ,X4 9850be,XMAS2cl4 800mhz, BFG GTS250 1GBoc & M4N98TD EVO,X4 B50be, gskill DDR3 1600 1.5v cl9. X2  inno3d 9600GToc DDR3 512

bofh1971

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Re: GA-MA790X-UD3P grafics cards config
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2010, 07:56:36 pm »
I was under the impression that SLI worked on crossfire, and that it was SLI boards that were more restrictive.

SLI would normally be set up in bios then the VGA nvidia driver would handle access to the two cards.

Going to have to investigate this as soon as I get hold of a pair of nvidia cards, especially as nvidia is my vga of choice.

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