It seems that in a complete reversal of their previous stance nVidia has announced at the last minute of NVISION 08(Macworld Jr) they will allow the new X58 chipset to support SLI natively… But what does this mean in the long run?
Author: Sean Kalinich
Published: August 28th 2008
Type: Editorial (Comment)
Spelling and Grammatical editor: Planetx64 Staff
Now I do not know about you, but many companies already have demo boards out and have stated they were not going to implement SLI on them. To me this would seem that they (the OEMs) are not aware of this new change of heart. It also brings up the question of why would nV do this? It could be that they really are getting out of the chipset business as I and other reporters has postulated, it could also be in preparation for a quick sale to Apple. But whatever the reason I think they may miss the first generation boards unless Intel an get the OEMs to change their designs last minute..
Of course it goes without saying that this is good news for end-users as they will now be able to use the Intel Chipsets and and have a larger choice for use in Dual GPU setups.