On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Mark Nelson wrote:
Actually no, SLI support isn't anything to do with the actual chipset
hardware (provided the chipset has the required number of PCI Express lanes
and physical slots of course ;) ).
SLI certification (and so SLI support) is nVidia's way of controlling which
platforms can run their GPUs in SLI mode (and making money out of it all of
course). Board makers that want SLI support pay the appropriate licensing
fees to nVidia (and submit their board models to nVidia for qualification)
and they then receive a special key that they embed in their BIOSs which
nVidia's drivers look for before enabling SLI.
I see. So, what does this mean for people who want to run a pair of
nVidea boards on a coreboot board in SLI mode?
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