Turning your nForce 570 into nForce 570 SLI

By closing the bridges on the chipset North Bridge we could make nForce4 chipset support SLI and SATA-300 turning it into an analog to more expensive solutions. Keeping in mind that the new nForce 5xx series of chipsets are single-chip solutions based on nForce 570 SLI chip, the idea of modifying it is also very tempting. The first experiments of the kind have been performed by our colleagues from HKE_PC site.

The modified mainboard demonstrated the same performance level as its fellow board based on a real nForce 570 SLI. Theoretically, this transformation allows saving about 50% of the mainboard cost. The only problem is that this modification is extremely complicated and may be dangerous for the board. Secondly, there are not so many mainboards on nForce 550 and nForce 570 chipsets that will boast two PCI Express x16 slots. Although they will probably be able to accommodate GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card that implements SLI principles by using only one single PCI Express x16 slot and a chipset supporting SLI technology.

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