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as title really , there has been a lot of speculation about x38 and sli and this was posted

Intel X38 Express Chipset – SLI News

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Thu 2007-09-20 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan
I definitely thought this was exciting enough to warrant its own post. While many sites have reported on Intel demonstrating a one-of-a-kind SLI-capable X38 motherboard, Hot******** has just posted some very interesting and largely unexpected news:

Check it out:


“Update: We've just got word that Intel (and perhaps some of their partners) will be using an nForce MCP on some of their X38 based motherboards, and it's these boards that will support SLI.”


I can already see the new 3DMark world records in the making!
 
Intel and nVidia on the same board?

*checks calendar

April 1st is long gone, dude.

Stranger things have happened tho. Like erm err erm...
 
X38 motherboards from what I'm aware were already running SLI with hacked drivers, which of course is a little bit worse than official drivers but if they are stable enough to use instead of Intels drivers when all well and good :)
 
this is where the artical came from



During his keynote today at IDF, Intel’s Pat Gelsinger showed off a machine based on the company’s Skulltrail enthusiast gaming platform. Skulltrail is a dual-socket platform based on the X38 chipset that supports Intel’s upcoming 45nm Quad-Core processors and offers PCI Express 2.0 support and true dual-x16 PEG slots (or four x8 PCI Express x16 slots).


Intel's Skulltrail Demo Machine with SLI

What was interesting about the machine on display was that it used a pair of GeForce graphics cards running in SLI mode, but on an Intel chipset – no nForce here. This would lead you to believe X38 will “support” SLI, but that is not exactly the case. In a briefing later in the day, Stephen Smith revealed that Intel worked with NVIDIA to enable SLI for the demo machine, but did NOT confirm that NVIDIA would enable SLI on X38 for consumers.

Update: We've just got word that Intel (and perhaps some of their partners) will be using an nForce MCP on some of their X38 based motherboards, and it's these boards that will support SLI.
 
Lol, its good for Intel but I'd never say this would screw AMD. People don't choose their CPU based on whether the motherboards support SLi. There will still be nForce AMD boards in the future I'd imagine.
 
AMD dont seem to be coming up with anything good though.

Apparently their barcelona chips arent all that good and i havnt seen any AMD based boards that support DDR3, PCI-E 2.0 etc
 
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