The War is Over: Intel Licenses Nvidia's SLI for DX58SO Motherboard
Posted 02/11/09 at 04:30:02 PM by Paul Lilly
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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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one thing confuses me?
Submitted by jvc08 on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 2:46pm
how come the x58 intel mobo has only 4 memory slots, and everybody else's boards have 6?? hhhmm....??
Submitted by JDorfler on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 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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This day will forever be
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 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.
Submitted by sparkey247 on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 4:51pm
the world fastest CPU (INTEL) maker and the worlds fastest GPU (NVIDIA) maker goin forcess, well maybe not yet but they should
I wish my 680i board
Submitted by quicks0rt on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 4:29pm
I wish my 680i board supports crossfire.
Combo Board
Submitted by eleck on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 2:59pm
ill just go with a combo board ^_^
What?
Submitted by maniacm0nk3y on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 2:42pm
So Intel only has the fully licensed board, even though almost all other motherboards are able to do both CrossFire and SLi?
Submitted by sasquatch42 on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 2:59pm
I think all boards with more than 1 PCIe x16 can do xfire
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 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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