Quad SLI doesn’t work on XP !
 

If you are after Quad SLI with two 9800GX2 cards you can forget about playing under XP. Nvidia clearly said that at least for the time being Quad SLI driver works only under Vista.

Both Vista 32 and 64bit are included but so far the current Forceware 174.53 for XP doesn’t have support for Quad SLI.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...95&Ite mid=34

HD3870X2 CF does work in XP :D

... from time to time ;)

With what driver ?

3-way sli doesn't work on XP, why would quad-sli work in xp then?

(remember how the previous quad-sli drivers for xp sucked?)

uhm Quad CF works better in XP than in Vista, better performance scaling in XP vs Vista

FYI ;)

Tell Geoffrey that... might get his setup running then.

driver issues are not new for either NV or ATI, when it works Quad CF scales better on XP vs Vista according to benches found on the WWW!

That's why I would like to know what drivers :)

Cards arrived, they are massive, never seen such a heavy and large card....

indeed, you haven't seen 9800GX2 yet, they weigh 1kg ;)

ATi 3870X2 = 1035Gr.

What driver ? :p

what driver for what? Quad CF? the latest Catalyst.

With XP ?
Don't think so.

you are correct!

Note: CrossFireX™ (Quad) is only supported under the Windows Vista operating system
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...=xp/radeonx-xp

very weird, must have misread somewhere along the line

Honestly John, show me two 3870X2 working properly in XP please ? Haven't found any so far (only Vista).

Edit : never mind :p ;)

Quad-CF in XP works, but Ati will never launch the drivers.

honestly Torsten... read before you post! :p

I was writing my reply while you posted... took me a whole 20 minutes to come up with that line :D (in truth, got a phonecall while I was posting)

Anyway, I think we all get the picture now :p

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Try Catalyst 8.3, these are the only drivers which currently support Quad CrossFire :)

link: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...common-vista32

Vista only!

I know :)
Got multiboot now.

pic :

Time to start benching, Gamer ;)

Do you have a XP setup with two X2's as well? I'm looking into the Ati drivers atm and was hoping you could run some tests.

Yep, same HDD :)
I did some tests, 5800 3D06 with a 630 :)
Time to upgrade my cpu :)

Still don't have it? No luck for you :(

Btw, since when are you part of the OCX overclocking team? :p

Lol, let's make another thread about this, nothing to do with GX2 :)

it's a hint that OCTB signature is crap;p