Nvidia: were they sent here by the devil?

[martin_metal_88]

Originally Posted by jcmaz

Physics

That's stupid Jcmaz...there is like 4 gamethat benefit of it..Edit: Wait I just look, there is 6 game after like 2 years of existence? lol useless to the bone:)

Your problem is simple dude, you have a 780I mobo. The reason why Intel start doing chipset that suport sli is because the Nvidia one suck and was a pain in the A**. Just swap the mobo with a P45 one and drop the sli config and you will be fine.

[LCB001]

Originally Posted by Ankhwatcher

Sadly this won't get nice steady linux and repetitive tasks, but that is a good long run!
My Ubuntu box folds, how should I join your group?

The Q9450 is my daily driver and is used for a bit more than just Folding/WCG/Seti/Rosetta/Poem, the 9800GTX on it Folds as well.

If the Deluxe is too pricey the P5Q-E is just as good with a few less bells and whistles. I have one with a Q9550 which has also done Folding/WCG/Seti/Rosetta/Poem as well as running dual 9800GTX+'s for F@H among other things. It's been running over a year and a half also 24/7.

Both rigs are running Vista Premium 64bit.

Our Team number is 54196, Welcome to the Team

LCB

[Ankhwatcher]

Okay, don't all scream abuse at me at once but is the sane choice just to get one of these?
ASUS P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, eSATA, RAID at TigerDirect.com

Just replacing my XFX 780i with another one would only cost 70 dollars (plus some shipping, hassle and waiting). 780i - Google Product Search

But their boards seem to be particularly poor, considering the amount of reconditioned ones on sale.

[martin_metal_88]

Again I would say kick this Nvidia chipset out...sell your 2 card and get a new and better single card from 5770 to 5870 with a P45 mobo. You will have a pain free system with that.

[Ankhwatcher]

So what do you guys think of this one:
Asus P5Q Pro Turbo Intel P45 Socket 775 Motherboard - Socket 775, ATX, Audio, Video, PCI Express 2.0, USB 2.0, RAID at TigerDirect.com

[martin_metal_88]

Good board fur sure. Way better compare to your old one!
This one would also be a good choice.
NCIX.com - Buy Biostar Tpower I45 ATX LGA775 P45 DDR2OC 2PCI-E 2PCI SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN CrossFireX Motherboard - TPower I45 In Canada.

[JD]

There are ways of modifying the BIOS to enable SLI support, assuming the board has two PCIe x16 slots...

You can take a look here: ** Experimental method to insert nVidia SLI certificate into the BIOS ** but of course, as it says there, DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I agree with the rest though, get a P45 chipset and you should be golden. The NVIDIA nForce chipsets failed after nForce4 IMO.

[Zero82z]

If you really must have an SLI board, look for one that uses the 750i chipset. It's the only nVidia chipset for Intel CPUs that doesn't totally suck. But I would agree with the other comments that you would be better off with a P45 board instead.

[Ankhwatcher]

Originally Posted by martin_metal_88

Good board fur sure. Way better compare to your old one!
This one would also be a good choice.
NCIX.com - Buy Biostar Tpower I45 ATX LGA775 P45 DDR2OC 2PCI-E 2PCI SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN CrossFireX Motherboard - TPower I45 In Canada.

Well lots of boards are way better compared to my old one:
High performance board, in need of repairs

[Ankhwatcher]

Hey! Check it out! I found something bing is good at:
ip45 - Bing Shopping[CommerceService%20scenario%3d%22f%22%20a%3d%22pa%2 2%20r%3d%22leafcategoryid|4534%22]&wf=Commerce&FORM=GGCA3

On google you can't filter out ram sticks by selecting "motherboard" for some reason.

[that said, it will be a cold day in hell when I switch to bing]