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brian70

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    CM Storm Sniper
    Intel i7-920 2.66
    MSI X58 Platinum motherboard
    EVGA NVidia 9800 GT 512MB
    Corsair DDR3 6GB 1600MHz
    Samsung 20X DVDRW
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  1. That would be good. Once you're done, I'd be interested to know what cards you used to test it out and whether you used a SLI connector or not. There seems to be a fair amount of speculation as to what cards needs SLI connectors (as the SLI is supported by the motherboard).
  2. I have a MSI X58 Platinum. It came with AMI BIOS V1.1 which, according to MSI, is the non-SLI version. They say the MBs that come with AMI BIOS V3.1 are the SLI versions. I downloaded AMI BIOS v3.2B2 from the AMI site. I flashed my MSI X58 Platinum board without problems. After a reboot, CPU-Z identified my motherboard as "MSI X58 PLATINUM SLI(MS-7522)" instead of the original "MSI X58 PLATINUM(MS-7522)". (I might have the SLI in the wrong place but it definitely said SLI.) NVidia Control Panel did not identify any SLI options but I guess I would need two GPUs installed to see those options. I only have one 9800 GT. My PC operated normally. I emailed MSI Tech Support to see if they supported this operation; they said "For hardware safety,we don't recommend you to do that.Please use your original BIOS." I flashed back to AMI BIOS V1.3B4 (which is the latest beta that they have for V1.x) as I did not see a reason to remain on V3.2B2 at this time. Would be interested to see if SLI does work on this motherboard or not just by flashing to AMI BIOS V3.x. Thanks CM Storm Sniper | Intel i7-920 2.66 | MSI X58 Platinum | EVGA NVidia 9800 GT 512MB | Corsair DDR3 6GB 1600MHz | Samsung 20X DVDRW | HD SATA 500GB+250GB+1TB | Vista Ultimate x64 | ThermalTake ToughPower 750W
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