The Epox 9U1697 GLI motherboard features the ULi 1697 chipset and two x16 PCI Express connectors. Using the newly “released” SLI patch on the web, PCPer was able to get SLI up and running on this non-NF4 chipset without much problem and has performance nearly identical to that of the NF4 SLI chipsets.
While the M1697 has not passed NVIDIA’s SLI certification, the ULi engineers have gone ahead given the world a patch to enable it anyway. So with this patch, many of us hope to run a cheap SLI system, but getting SLI to run properly in the first place is tricky and no where is the installation procedure documented … until now!
I found that the order in which you install the software components matters. If done in the wrong sequence, you may encounter one of the following problems: no SLI option, have an SLI option but no performance increase, or freeze on Windows boot-up with a 2nd video card installed.
Source: PC Perspective
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