It seems like it's a long time ever since I posted the info about the i975X supporting both dual graphics card technology. Back then, the motherboard hasn't been released yet, and supply of motherboards sporting i975 is still very scarce and rare.
But time passed, the motherboard based on this chipset has been released, and yet while ATi's Crossfire has been touted by OEMs, SLI is nowhere to be seen on the motherboard label or feature lists of the boards sporting dual PCIe x16 PEG. Enthusiasts has accepted the fact that to run SLI, and NVIDIA-based chipset supporting Chipzilla processor should be used, or so it seems back then.
Howeved, again, about four(4) days ago, I posted the sudden appearance of SLI on i975-based motherboard. This signals many doubts, questions, confusion, excitement, and some disbelief from the enthusiasts' community. However, while I also tried the older Forceware drivers, new ones seems to have completely removed SLI support and so this new emergence of SLI support is still hard (but exciting) to swallow.
But another one just pops up, this time, from coolaler, a respected enthusiast, showing SLI on Yonah with 7600GT. This is the final nail to the coffin, as all speculation and doubts are removed, and the interest is now shifted from "is it true?" to "how is it done?".
So with this new exciting information, the buzz word will now shift very much in favor of the very strong and flexible i975X chipset. Chipzilla rules!
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