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Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLI

Posted by Soulskill on from the had-to-happen-sooner-or-later dept.

Vigile writes "In a somewhat surprising move from a company that is used to holding its proprietary technologies close to its chest, NVIDIA has announced that it is opening up a 'certified SLI motherboard' program for boards using the upcoming Intel X58 chipset. The X58 is Intel's core logic offering for Nehalem/Bloomfield processors and many people wondered how NVIDIA would support SLI on a platform for which they had admitted to not developing a chipset. At first, NVIDIA was pushing the use of their dedicated nForce 200 chip, but have instead decided to open up the SLI technology to X58 motherboards that meet certain NVIDIA requirements. This leaves a lot of questions about NVIDIA's previous SLI statements, how the pricing of the certification affects partners, and if NVIDIA's chipset business is truly at its end now."

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  1. Re:second person to post by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I feel a...disturbance...in the Net. As if 100,000 Slashdotters simulatenously clicked the 'Alter Relationship' button next to your nick on this post...

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  2. Re:News for nerds and all that by bignetbuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps digg is more your speed:

    "Muppet Show to Return To TV After 27 Years

    telegraph.co.uk â" Kermit the frog and friends could return in the first new Muppet Show TV series for 27 years."

  3. Two wrongs don't make a right by TravisO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Intel's GPU performance is abysmal, a SLI'd Intel still won't compare to just one Nvidia card.