NVIDIA and Intel aren't the best of friends and Intel's chipsets have been left without support for the multi-GPU technology SLI. Those who have sought to use dual NVIDIA graphics cards have been forced to get a motherboard with an NVIDIA chipset. Intel's X58 chipset for the Core i7 family was the first retail platform to support both NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire, but now it seems like a nifty user have managed to unlock SLI with the older generation of Intel chipsets.
A forum member called Firewings [CCG] at Chinese hardware site Expreview have posted information on software that unlocks SLI with several of Intel's chipsets and except from his own tests with X38 Expreview has confirmed the patch working with an Intel P45 motherboard.
By installing the software that Firewings [CCG] provides us, we managed to enable SLI configuration in Directory Services Restore Mode. Due to some “small problems” according to Firewings [CCG], the SLI configuration can’t be realized in normal mode for now, but he says this will be fixed soon.
The performance is there and apparently the patch unlocking SLI support is not that hard to do, which we're certain many users will appreciate.
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SLI support with Intel X38, P45 and X48 chipsets
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