Most motherboards claim to only work with either SLI or Crossfire but rarely both. I can't think of any reason why you couldn't do either providing you have multiple PCI-E slots. Anyone know the answer?
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SLI / Crossfire restrictions?
Most motherboards claim to only work with either SLI or Crossfire but rarely both. I can't think of any reason why you couldn't do either providing you have multiple PCI-E slots. Anyone know the answer?
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Re: SLI / Crossfire restrictions?
money
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Re: SLI / Crossfire restrictions?
Most companies initially release a board for SLI/CF but eventually make BIOS that allow for both.
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Re: SLI / Crossfire restrictions?
Originally Posted by ChaobSiroc
Most motherboards claim to only work with either SLI or Crossfire but rarely both. I can't think of any reason why you couldn't do either providing you have multiple PCI-E slots. Anyone know the answer?
Licensing costs is the biggest reason, there's no technical reasons stopping it. Most X58 boards will have both SLI & Crossfires support as do a lot of P55 boards the ones that don't are typically the sub $100 ones. To include SLI support motherboard companies have to pay a licence fee of around $30 to Nvidia to get the licence at least that was what was reported on Anandtech last year.
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