Nvidia Reportedly Scores QPI License While Intel Gets SLI For X58 Motherboards

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Nvidia has recently reached an agreement with Intel and received a Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) license enabling the company to design chipsets for Intel’s next-generation platforms, according to sources at motherboard makers. Nvidia will only launch solutions for entry-level and mid-range motherboards supporting socket 1160 CPUs (Lynnfield) initially.

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  • OrderChaos
    Was wondering if that was the tradeoff. Rumors, but no official announcement. Now there is!!
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  • cah027
    So no high end MBs from Nvidia ?
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  • blackwidow_rsa
    Who in their right mind would buy nvidia boards now? Hot, unstable...
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  • homerdog
    I'm a little confused by the different Nehalem sockets. How will LGA1160 compare to LGA1366?
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  • pcguy1059
    I Haven't Run SLI on these new Nvidia Motherboards cause they suck i can't wait to go to intel chipset with socket LGA1366 and SLI
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  • Hello? Nvidia did not get a QPI-license, that's whay they concentrate on the socket 1160 Nehalems - they don't use QPI.
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  • homerdog
    Hello? Nvidia did not get a QPI-license, that's whay they concentrate on the socket 1160 Nehalems - they don't use QPI.
    Could you please elaborate? What do they use if not QPI? Google is failing me at the moment :(
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  • cmmcnamara
    This article specifically says, and I copy paste here: "reached an agreement with Intel and received a Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) license". It says that NVIDIA will initially only offer entry level and mid range segments, initially implying that high end solutions are likely to come at a later date. Someone take a class on analyzing basic sentence structure yeesh.
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