EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win Doesn’t Work on Intel X79 Chipsets

Buying a $520 (394 EUR) graphics card and finding out that it doesn’t work on your $2000 PC is definitely a bummer, but this is exactly what happens if you try to pair together an EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win with an Intel X79 system.

Legit Reviews came across this problem when they tried to review EVGA’s creation on a platform powered by an Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard and an Intel Core i7-3960X processor.

The system would boot and go into Windows, but surprisingly SLI can’t be activated in the Nvidia driver as the option is simply missing, so you are left with a $520 graphics card that works at just half of its full potential.

The even sadder news is that nobody was aware of this issue, so Nvidia doesn’t have any plans to release a solution for this problem by the end of the year.

Until the problem is fixed, if you plan to buy a GTX 560 Ti 2Win for your X79 system you should better delay your decision or use the card in an Intel Z68 board as this combo works perfectly.