AMDTech has an article up covering a budget SLI system for us Intel® FanBoys. Knowing it's SLI, well, it's not going to be based on Intel® chipset, but from rival NVIDIA*. Anyway, I guess if you really like SLI then it's NVIDIA or nothing. Good thing, there's still CrossFire from ATi* that's supported on i955/i975 based motherboard.This board was not forgiving if we made a mistake in our performance evaluation testing. The system would perform well in our general applications and benchmarks at a given setting and then completely refuse to boot or go into a reboot loop if we increased the FSB or especially the Memory speeds by a few MHz past a stable threshold. We quickly found out the limits of the board and if nothing else, the board's ability to fail at certain settings was consistent.
The Self Recovery System (S.R.S.) within the BIOS would allow the system to recover from most configuration issues consistently except for errant memory settings. The inability of the system to recover from these memory miscues would require the usage of the clear CMOS jumper. Unfortunately, we ran into an issue with this process as the clear CMOS process sometimes required the removal of the battery for the jumper process to work. This process is not acceptable, considering how well other BIOS recovery systems work. As with the recent Biostar BIOS update, we feel this issue can be diminished greatly with additional BIOS tuning.
Source:AMDTech
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