Sli on a crossfire only motherboard

[Anir]

I came across a hack, called different SLI auto, that can enable sli on a crossfire only motherboard. I have a crossfire only motherboard, and a GTX 1070 right now. Will this trick work on my system, should I buy another GTX 1070 ?

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/sli-with-different-cards.158907/

 

[Megah3rtz]

No. 

[ARikozuM]

Do it at your own risk. As far as I know SLI has to be certified. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

This is from 2012. I seriously doubt it will work. 

[Anir]

1 minute ago, Megah3rtz said:

No. 

Why so

[The Sloth]

3 minutes ago, Anir said:

Why so

sli minimum need x8 slot and crossfire can be done in a x4 slot 

[Megah3rtz]

1 minute ago, Anir said:

Why so

Because the last update on github was nearly 2 years ago, and the latest supported graphics card they listed there is the GTX 745/GTX 750TI. 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

sli minimum need x16 slot and crossfire can be done in a x4 slot 

SLI needs x8 minimum, not x16

[Anir]

1 minute ago, Megah3rtz said:

Because the last update on github was nearly 2 years ago, and the latest supported graphics card they listed there is the GTX 745/GTX 750TI. 

People have reported, to have successfully sli gtx 970s 

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

SLI needs x8 minimum, not x16

sorry i meant to say 8

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Anir said:

People have reported, to have successfully sli gtx 970s 

than do it it should easily be doable. any mobo with 2 x8 slot is sli compatible. 

[Anir]

3 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

than do it it should easily be doable. any mobo with 2 x8 slot is sli compatible. 

That's why, I m here, just wanted to be sure, otherwise it will be a waste of money ?, wanted to know, if anybody else has tried it out with latest GPU

[Dabombinable]

9 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Do it at your own risk. As far as I know SLI has to be certified. 

 

6 minutes ago, Lurick said:

SLI needs x8 minimum, not x16

Which is where it should be fine on some motherboards. My P5 Deluxe has 2x PCIe 16 slots that run at x8 with 2 cards installed, but since its not the Nvidia chipset it isn't SLI certified.

[Phieus]

Hmmm. I'd stray away from that. I personally went and purchased 2 RX480s to have a dual GPU setup on the Z170P

[CatXice]

if the MB dont say it can take SLI in its spec then no it cant

[Anir]

1 minute ago, Phieus said:

Hmmm. I'd stray away from that. I personally went and purchased 2 RX480s to have a dual GPU setup on the Z170P

Good choice, I did the mistake, I should also have gone for two rx480s instead of a single gtx 1070, for about the same price, and would have got more performance, somewhere equal to more experience gtx 1080

[Phieus]

1 minute ago, Anir said:

Good choice, I did the mistake, I should also have gone for two rx480s instead of a single gtx 1070, for about the same price, and would have got more performance, somewhere equal to more experience gtx 1080

Just don't do what I did and install the  2 cards and then 1 month later realize you never enabled crossfire.

[Anir]

1 minute ago, Phieus said:

Just don't do what I did and install the  2 cards and then 1 month later realize you never enabled crossfire.

Nope, I know that much, thanks for the advice ??