SLI coming to X58

BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
edited July 2008 in Science & Tech
NVIDIA announced this afternoon that they're partnering with Intel to bring SLI to X58 motherboards. The news started leaking morning and reactions have been rather negative.

To get SLI on the x58, you need the so-called nforce 200 SLI processor, otherwise known as a second rate PCIe bridge chip. This is the same part that took the excellent PCIe2 on Skulltrail and made it a mediocre higher latency PCIe1 implementation. It is the same part that the pretty broken 780i used to fake PCIe2 as well. - The Inquirer
While the NVIDIA camp is cheering and painting this as a win for enthusiasts everywhere, those looking deeper into the issue have found the combo of SLI with X58 will likely belong to a very small group of boards. X58 boards are scheduled to come out Q1 2009 so it's safe to figure they're already in development now. Asking manufacturers to go back and integrate a new south bridge is a costly proposal. Couple that with the expensive nature of the chips and you're looking at boards that'll be close to $400.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    ****ery.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited July 2008
    And this is the 'X' series boards only. Crossfire works wonderfully on P45 (and more than likely it's '5' series counterpart) without the need for extra pci-e circuitry. Seems ridiculous to me.
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