Bombshell of NVISION08: SLI goes native on Intel X58

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Bombshell of NVISION08: SLI goes native on Intel X58 - 08/28/08 09:21 AM

NVIDIA decided to wait until the 11th hour to drop a bombshell on the media
with information on the first non-NVIDIA chipset to natively support SLI
multi-GPU technology. Come in and see all the details of 'how' and 'why' as
well as what it means to the rest of the NVIDIA world.

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=613

Quote: "NVIDIA is going to allow the Intel X58 chipset to natively support
SLI graphics configurations.

Let me let that sink in.

No need for an nForce 200, no need for any special logic of any kind, no
need for an NVIDIA product but the graphics cards themselves. Obviously
this is GREAT news for the gamer - now we can finally get high quality
motherboards that are reasonably priced and will run both NVIDIA SLI and AMD
CrossFire GPU configurations. We are very excited about the idea of
unifying our platform selections for the hardware leaderboard, for using a
single motherboard for all our graphics card testing and just excited about
what it means for high-end PC gaming in the big picture. "

Thanks for a post!

Ryan Shrout
Owner - PC Perspective
rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com