NVIDIA To Unlock SLI For AMD 990 Series Chipsets

[Final8y]

For so long, AMD enthusiasts have to resort to unofficial patches to make SLI work on their boards but not anymore. NVIDIA has finally agreed to make their SLI technology available for AMD 9-series chipsets boards supporting the Zambezi processors based on Bulldozer architecture. Only 990FX and 990X will be supported though so no luck for 7 and 8 series boards owners. AMD 990FX is able to support 2 PCIe x16 slots or 4 PCIe x8 slots so it can run 2-way (2 x16) or 3-way (3 x8) while AMD 990X is able to support only 2-way SLI (2 x8). There is no indication whether AMD 970 can support SLI at this point of time. The AMD 9-series launch is expected to be sometime in May so look out for it.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-to-unlock-sli-for-amd-990-series-chipsets/11778.html#

 

[Stanners]

Nice, about time this happened.

 

[deusexlumina]

well if nvidia are out of the chipset game for mobos (which they soon will be iirc) then seems like a good option otherwise they are shutting out even more people. good news for amd, good news for nvidia, bad news for intel

 

[Final8y]

Nice, about time this happened.

Yes 3x Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "Phantom" 3072MB i find very tempting.

 

[deusexlumina]

maybe nvidia know something about bulldozer that we don't

*Speculation*

 

[johny dolan]

Maybe nvidia have done it to give themselves some good press to divert all the posts about 590s going bang.

 

[MooMoo444]

Maybe its so their 590 army can blow up some AMD powered PC's too, with added SLI inferno

 

[Tikkabhuna]

Finally. Now I can consider AMD for my next upgrade.