NVIDIA to allow SLI mode to Intel X58 boards

[pogsnet]

Whew! NVIDIA softens. Afraid being crushed by both Intel and AMD/ATI which both officially supports Havok.


NVIDIA and Intel cooperate to bring SLI to X58 motherboards

NVIDIA has announced that Intel and NVIDIA has reached an agreement on how to solve the SLI on X58 issues. It somehow looked like Nehalem and Bloomfield specifically was going to CrossFire-only for a while, I'm certain AMD wasn't exactly crying, but things have been, kind of, solved now. They're simply going back to the solution they had with Skulltrail. They fit the X58 motherboard with an additional NF200 SLI chip. This will enable users to use up to three GeForce graphics cards in the same Bloomfield setup. This means that there will be motherboards where you will have the ultimate freedom of choice, CrossFireX and SLI.

source:
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7949.html

[ogsnet:1]


I think HD 4800 did a very good job that non is above forever.

Q1 2009 HD5870 is coming with 40nm/45nm Die and 2000 shader processors.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7946.html

 

[lewis999]

The choice of Crossfire and sli on the same mobo would be cool
anyways with the HD5870 i hope they split the GPU core and shaders apart , overclocking the shaders with 2000SP's would be ultimate pwnage.

 

[jitpublisher]

I can see the posts already,

"Can I SLI a GTX260 with my 4870 X2? My motherboard says it will do SLI and Crossfore both...."

 

[ajcroteau]

Well it's about time...

I really don't like being locked down to either NVidia or ATI.

 

[gamerk316]

I can see the posts already,

"Can I SLI a GTX260 with my 4870 X2? My motherboard says it will do SLI and Crossfore both...."

Someones tring to do that through hardware...