Epox will support Crossfire and SLI

IF YOU THOUGHT that the only Intel chipsets that support Crossfire are i955X and i975X, then you're in for a bit of surprise.

While even ATI technicians are telling folks that, there is a small motherboard company which has produced multi GPU supporting products for quite some time. Thanks to our Slovakian friend, we managed to get our hands dirty with information hidden in various test dungeons in Eastern Europe, and the company's product web site, of course.

Epox manufacturers several products which unofficially support SLI with their GLI marchitecture. However, with the new BIOS revision - EP-5P945C GLI and EP-5LDA+ GLI officially support Crossfire too.

Although both ATI and Intel are claiming it will not work on a i945P chipset, we have seen two X1900s working in Crossdire way back in Taipei, during the Computex show. It seems to us that "GLi" motherboards are "pretending" to be i955/i975X chipset and CrossFire works like a charm. Or it could be that just Intel does not want something to be known in public, and Epox is just using it.

So, there you have it - an i945P motherboard supporting Crossfire. And with Nvidia opening up SLI support for Centrino platform - which is none other than a i945P or i945G chipset with power management enabled, there is no reason for SLI not to officially work on GLI motherboards. µ