K404 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Quick Q Apart from using 4x of the eVGA GTX285 Classified, is there any other way to run quad-SLI on the '285? Thanks! Are the rest of the GTX2xx completely limited to tri? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der8auer Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 4x 285 Classified should be recognized as 2x 295 and that's why they run in quad SLI as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 It might be necessary to flip a bios switch or so. Can't really remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunslinger Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Pretty sure that the 285 Classy was the only card that could run 4-way SLI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der8auer Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 It might be necessary to flip a bios switch or so. Can't really remember. Yea. I have two of these cards and they have a switch with 285 and 295 BIOS. For Quad SLI you have to switch to the 295 BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 So, is a device ID trick the only way? I remember how eVGA did it, I was hoping that modern driver support had changed things or another vendor had come up with a solution RANDOM idea.... what if the 285 ID association was changed in the driver to match the GTX295? What would happen if four cards are installed? (I don't have 4 cards here....) OR......Could the eVGA tweaked BIOS be flashed to other cards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der8auer Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 I don't think so because it's a custom PCB design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENiEBEN Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 So, is a device ID trick the only way? I remember how eVGA did it, I was hoping that modern driver support had changed things or another vendor had come up with a solution RANDOM idea.... what if the 285 ID association was changed in the driver to match the GTX295? What would happen if four cards are installed? (I don't have 4 cards here....) OR......Could the eVGA tweaked BIOS be flashed to other cards? Driver wise it will not work but a pcb mod can work (a la GeForce>Quadro) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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