Read more.NVIDIA has its hands on a QPI license, and Intel X58-based mainboards will be getting SLI after all - though, it's not quite that easy.
Read more.NVIDIA has its hands on a QPI license, and Intel X58-based mainboards will be getting SLI after all - though, it's not quite that easy.
That is great news! SLI and CF on the same board?
Nice...
So when I come to get my new nehalem based rig I will have the choice of having Either cross-fire or SLI depending on who's cards are the BEST value for money at that particular moment.
This is excellent news as this means people will no longer have to spend ages deciding if they want to use an SLI board or Cross-fire board like they have in the past and in the end, it's us - the consumers that will benefit overall
It was never an issue before Lee. SLI meant an NVIDIA board, so there was never any real issues to consider.
I suspect NVIDIA may just be subsidising board partners for their bridge chip.
The article has been updated to say that nVidia are not getting QPI....
It has seemed obvious to me for quite some time that nVidia should really try hard to get SLI added to intel chipsets or just remove the hardware altogether and perform SLI using nothing more then the bridge and the drivers.
They have seriously lost the motherboard battle, the vast majority of people try and stay far away from nVidia boards, all they seem to be doing is limiting the number of GPUs they can potentially sell.
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well I'm definitely not getting any board that has the SLI chip, I don't intend on going dual cards ever, so less heat and cost on the board.
This seems pretty bad for nVidia... $200mil out of pocket fixing the G84/86 debacle, and now they are not making a Nehalem chipset - and so far no OEMs have any designs with the nforce200 chip. So the ultra-high end will be with AMD cards for a while till the boards come with nforce200 chip.
Woah, steady. How do we know if OEMs have designs with the nForce200 chip? Boards won't be seen until November or so I guess. Most of them will be able to include it in their top boards with no additional cost (they were overcharging like hell anyway) if they feel their margins will be better off for it.
As I said earlier, I feel NV will be subsidising this chip anyway. They NEED SLI on Intel if for nothing by PR.
I have to say, from where I'm standing, you'd have to be nuts to invest in NV for the long term at the moment. They'll make a nice comeback at ATI easily enough I assume, but after that things are looking very dark at the moment. They desperately need to get Intel on their side, something Intel aren't exactly going to be in a hurry to do with Larrabee coming along.
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