SLI-ready memory not detected
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Posted by housetrained on August 1, 2007, 12:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options John the West Ham fan house.trained@virgin.net housetrained@hotmail.com <><
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Posted by Paul on August 1, 2007, 2:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Pardon my ignorance but what on earth is SLI-ready memory???
> > John the West Ham fan > house.trained@virgin.net > housetrained@hotmail.com > <>< It is pure marketing spin. Nvidia and Corsairmicro (the memory company) banded together, to add some data fields to the SPD on a memory DIMM. Because the added data fields are not part of a JEDEC standard, it means that a motherboard BIOS has to have additional code added, to understand what to do. Typically, that might mean obtaining a BIOS code module from Nvidia, if you didn't want to write more BIOS code yourself. (Since this spec is provided, any motherboard company could write code if they wanted.) Some motherboards with Nvidia chipsets, know what to do with RAM featuring this additional data. The additional data should do no harm, and can be ignored by motherboards that don't know about the fields. http://web.archive.org/web/20060523215201/http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/products/specs/EPP_Specification_v01.pdf SLI technically has nothing to do with it. From a marketing standpoint, what Nvidia is saying is, "if you can afford SLI, then buy this fancy memory". Sort of like Monster Cables blinding you with a layer of gold on everything they make. It is just marketing spin. Graphics and system memory are separate subsystems, and there is no reason to buy a special system memory, if you happen to have SLI or Crossfire video. You are more likely to see support for the additional features of that memory, on an Nvidia chipset board, because of the need for additional BIOS code. But notice that other motherboards still work without this. Paul | |||||||||||||
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