News - NVIDIA SLI to feature on AMD motherboards

[HEXUS]

NVIDIA has announced that its SLI technology will be made available to upcoming 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets.

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[baius]

Woah! This is like when GDI and NOD joined forces to defeat the Scrin. (Or was it Allied and Soviet against Rising Sun?)

[Golden Dragoon]

It is my opinion that they have been shooting themselves in the foot for years by not pursuing a more open approach to sli, I had a crossfire capable board a little while ago, and although I never used that feature it would have been nice to simply pop in another geforce, but because I couldn't they lost a sale from me, and I simply went and got an ati card.

[c.ruel]

This rumour has been doing the rounds for quite some time ... nice to hear it finally compared. Win win situation for everyone.

[Biscuit]

definitely brings more competition into platform selection

[dfour]

It is my opinion that they have been shooting themselves in the foot for years by not pursuing a more open approach to sli, I had a crossfire capable board a little while ago, and although I never used that feature it would have been nice to simply pop in another geforce, but because I couldn't they lost a sale from me, and I simply went and got an ati card.

+1 finally some business sense has overcome years of rivalry.

[bledd]

It is my opinion that they have been shooting themselves in the foot for years by not pursuing a more open approach to sli, I had a crossfire capable board a little while ago, and although I never used that feature it would have been nice to simply pop in another geforce, but because I couldn't they lost a sale from me, and I simply went and got an ati card.

Yup

Seems daft to me, personally I can't justify the cost of more than one graphics card, but there really should be a standard that they can both use

[Georgio1990]

finally some hope for AMD users! I might have to invest

[Biscuit]

i wonder if intels and nvidias past disagreements have had anything to do with it?

Seems unlikely but i would like to think Nvidia know more than we do and their trust in the competitive values of bulldozer should be taken as a good sign for the platform.