LoArmistead Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 Welp, I have a Lanparty Ultra-D running my x800xl and my 3700 Sandy right now. I saw that the board is set up for SLI, all you had to do was arrange the jumpers correctly. My question is, CAN you do SLI on the Ultra-D? If you can do SLI by just arranging the jumpers, what's the difference between the Ultra-D and the SLI-DR? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martymcfly Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 They are the same board, just different chipsets. But the chipsets are the same chipse , except the SLI one has two points bridged and the ultra does not. YOu can just pencil in the bridge and your board will be the same as the SLI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoArmistead Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 and I guess I'd also have to buy an SLI bridge too. I've heard that it has a high likelyhood of not working . Not that it really bugs me, I'm not planning on going SLI until my next upgrade anyways (many moons from now). I was just curious after looking at the two boards. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeeD Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 I think they might have changed the boards or made it harder to make that work. I think nvidia started putting something over the points that were not bridged to discourage people from penciling them. It wouldn't hurt to try though, I may if I decide to do SLI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sYstEmATiC Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 i heard it can be a little shakey if u do the pencil mod BUT it might work bettter if u use one of those conductive pens. i havent even looked at the points on my ultra-d yet.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verran Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 lilkev's info on this matter. Â He did this almost a year ago, and I still haven't heard of many others following in his footsteps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 The earlier chipsets had very little covering the 2 points that needed to be bridged but on later chipsets they put an epoxy coating over the 2 points making it more difficult but not impossible to do.Look Here! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbone2sk Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 My first dfi ultra board, that I got the day when it came, I could mod it to a sli. You gain sli and SATAII support Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danyo64 Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 that would be worth it just for the sata II Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swifty11212 Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 im afraid of chipset modding so i got the sli-dr, saved me time compared to the ultra. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FollowerCTO Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 Not only is there an epoxy coating over the two points (though, from what I've read it is easily removed), I've read that nVidia's newest chipset drivers prevent the mod completely. However, I'm still going to try it over break anyways :-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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