The War is Over: Intel Licenses Nvidia's SLI for DX58SO Motherboard
The War is Over: Intel Licenses Nvidia's SLI for DX58SO Motherboard
Posted 02/11/2009 at 2:30pm
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After a lengthy standoff that ultimately punished the consumer rather than each other, Intel and Nvidia recently came to an agreement over using Nvidia's SLI technology on Intel chipset-based motherboards, specifically the Core i7 friendly X58. And now for the first time, Intel has licensed SLI for use on its own DX58SO "Smackover" motherboard.
"The addition of Nvidia SLI technology to the Intel DX58SO motherboard has been a welcome addition," said Clem Russo, VP and GM of Channel Desktop Platform Group at Intel. "The pairing of our new Core i7 processors on our Extreme Series motherboard and Nvidia GeForce graphics has resulted in some of the world's fastest consumer gaming PC platforms. For playing any of today's hottest PC titles, this is one awesome combination that our customers have been asking for."
Nvidia says the DX58SO supports any combination of GeForce GPUs, including support for quad-SLI, which will come as a boon to Smackover owners who have been lusing over Nvidia's new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 videocard.
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jvc08
February 16, 2009 at 2:46pm
how come the x58 intel mobo has only 4 memory slots, and everybody else's boards have 6?? hhhmm....??
JDorfler
February 12, 2009 at 4:19pm
Ever think Intel might just pull an AMD and buy nVidia? For a business stand point, it might actually be a great idea. Full on Intel based PCs vs Full on AMD PCs. Interesting.
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Keith E. Whisman
February 11, 2009 at 11:38pm
This day will forever be remembered as VI day that stands for Victory Intel. Now I need to dust off my old Army Class A's and find a pretty girl to kiss besides my ol' lady for the victory kiss picture. You know like the one taken in Times Square.
sparkey247
February 11, 2009 at 4:51pm
the world fastest CPU (INTEL) maker and the worlds fastest GPU (NVIDIA) maker goin forcess, well maybe not yet but they should
maniacm0nk3y
February 11, 2009 at 2:42pm
So Intel only has the fully licensed board, even though almost all other motherboards are able to do both CrossFire and SLi?
Keith E. Whisman
February 11, 2009 at 11:42pm
Not so, like Nvidia ATI Crossfire requires some sort of chip/software hocus pocus bullcrap to work. It's got to say that it's compatible with Crossfire.
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