Why?

[JLV2k5]

Why do non-nVidia chipset motherboards have dual PCIe slots if you cannot run SLI with them? Purely for two ATI cards in Crossfire?

thanks

 

[Geoff]

If you are referring to the Intel chipsets, then yes, for the most part they support CrossFire.

 

[JLV2k5]

Yeah sorry I meant provide a link to a motherboard with a X38 chipset. I guess the two PCIe slots on the X38s is for ATI use?

 

[Geoff]

Yeah sorry I meant provide a link to a motherboard with a X38 chipset. I guess the two PCIe slots on the X38s is for ATI use?

You can use nVidia cards, you just can't SLI them. But yes you can use two ATI cards in CrossFire, if they support it.

 

[JLV2k5]

So what would be the point of running dual GPUs without SLIing them?

 

[Motoxrdude]

If you are running a workstation or you want two or more monitors with 3d acceleration.

 

[Geoff]

So what would be the point of running dual GPUs without SLIing them?

SLI is nVidia's term for connecting two or more video cards together to assist the computer in 3D applications and games.

CrossFire is the exact same thing (with it's minor differences), and is just ATI's term for connecting two or more video cards together.