Crossfire Board - With a SLI Bridge?!?

**Doctor Feelgood**

So I bought a new motherboard... the ABIT AW8D. Great board, tons of nice features...

I didn't even think about it before hand, but knew it had two x16 PCIe slots. I assumed SLI for some reason, but it is actually Crossfire capable.

The weird thing is... Included with the nice bundle of accessories is a SLI bridge. Think its an accident or can I do something with it?

If you look at pics at stores carrying it, they show the bridge... listing

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:36:55 Post Subject:

No reason to belive it support Nvidia's SLI... so... Confused

knight0334 · Posted: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:51:19 Post Subject:

I think I've read that the SLI/Crossfire support issues are starting to go away. ..that some chipsets already cross support either flavor.

The Intel 975 being one of them..

I know Via, SiS and ULi are all working on or have out chipsets that go both ways. ...with driver, BIOS, or setting changes required for it to work. Performance though is less then a purebred chipset like ATI's for their own Crossfire, or nVidia's for their SLI.

DragonMaster · Rated NC-17 Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 134

Aren't SiS and ULi all nVidia now?

Anyways, I think nVidia could work with ATi since it's going to be AMD.

knight0334 · Posted: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:48:15 Post Subject:

ULi is now.. SiS is still seperate as far as I know.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:01:29 Post Subject:

The documentation with the board doesn't mention SLI anywhere (that I have seen yet), but they do talk about Crossfire.

I thought SIS (at least in part) became XGI... And XGI bought Trident, and then sometime not too long ago ATI bought XGI... Laughing

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:43:17 Post Subject:

From motherboards.org - "Strangely, ABIT decided to include an SLI bridge and a bracket. As the AW8D does not support SLI in any way this is very strange."

Razz

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:01:42 Post Subject:

mrweasel · Posted: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:11:35 Post Subject:

I thought ATI was going cabless for Crossfire. Still doesn't explain the bracket and bridge.

Unless they needed to add it to raise the price of the board

DragonMaster · Rated NC-17 Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 134

Well the cards are connected externally, but that's all.