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Zelig · Post by **Zelig** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:53 pm

capper5016 wrote:The only DFI NF4 board that supports SLI is the SLI-DR, the first rev of the NF4 Ultra did with a mod and SLI bridge, but DFI "fixed" that problem so that people couldn't take advantage of the exploit.
I'm not a huge believer in SLI, and think its overblown. Go with an Ultra and a high end video card, you won't notice much of a difference while playing games, as when you get to a certain point your eyes just can't tell the difference.
To me, SLI is too expensive and more hype and "benchmark envy" than anything else.

The SLI-D supports SLI as well, but without the extra 4 sata-1 ports with RAID5 support that the SLI-DR has.

Also, as far as I can tell all Ultra-D boards are still moddable, though apparently the newer ones have more plastic on the chipset which has to be scraped off or something.

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:05 pm

After talking to DFI, their Ultra boards have not been moddable for quite awhile. they "took steps" to prevent people from modding them to work with SLI. Exactly what those steps are is unclear, but they seem pretty confident that it can't be done without damaging the risk of damaging equipment

Zelig · Post by **Zelig** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:45 pm

Hm, I just checked out the DFI-Street forums, and it looks like they just covered up the contacts with epoxy, so it's still possible, but much less noob-friendly.

Post detailing all the extra work, and a pic showing epoxy coverage:
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpos ... tcount=176

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:59 pm

hmm, did all he have to do was bridge those two connections on the PCB with circuitwriter? The pic made it look a little simplified, even after reading the thread, just sounded tedious and in need of someone with a lot of patience, that's all I gotta say, lol

Zelig · Post by **Zelig** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:52 am

Yeah, I got my Ultra-D board a while ago without the epoxy, and I surprised how easy it was.

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:33 am

Probably took you no longer than the cure time to be back up and running on that end then; sounds like DFI didn't take the complete precautions after all. Where there's a will there's a way, especially in modding

ELIK18 · Post by **ELIK18** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:40 pm

DFI NF3