enthusiast.hardocp.com — NVIDIA has broken its silence on its SLI technology becoming a bit more available! NVIDIA SLI will be available on "SLI certified" Intel X58 chipset based motherboards natively. x3 and x4 to be supported with an additional NF200 chip(s).
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frgmstrAug 28, 2008Submitter
And I spoke a bit wrong about x3 and x4 SLI, they will be done natively as shown in the slides, but will have to divvy up the PCIe bandwidth from the one chipset. For the board to run in a true x16 X 3 or X4 SLI mode, additional nf 200s will be needed. And if you are pushing that many pixels on a tremendously expensive setup like that, I would suggest a skinny PCIe bus would not behoove you.From NV on that:BTW, you can run x3 and x4 without nForce 200. But the lane configs will be a x16 + 2 x8s or 4 x8s.nForce 200 lets you do full bandwidth of 3 x16s or 4 x16s (with multiple nForce 200s).
djblicAug 28, 2008
Its about time. Maybe Nvidia is in a desperate attempt to make money again.
spirkusAug 30, 2008
sli ftw!now there is no reason not to choose X58
getpassion4lifeSep 8, 2008
Awesome! With the x58 and native SLI support nvidia/intel will be putting the heat on AMD. Consumers ftw!