NVIDIA’s SLI licensed for upcoming P55

Robert Hallock (Thrax)

August 10, 2009 10:03 AM ET in News, , , , , , , , , , ,

nvidiaNVIDIA has just announced that Intel and major motherboard manufacturers have all grabbed an SLI license for motherboards based on the upcoming LGA1156 P55 chipset. It’s not any particular surprise, but it’s a win for the budget conscious.

SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 10, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA® SLI® technology for inclusion on their Intel® P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel® Core™ i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket.

16 Comments:

  1. Cliff_Forster
    10 Aug '09, 4:13 pm

    Meh,, why hamper your future Windows 7 experience with inferior last generation tech?

    Enthusiasts should demand a crossfire enabled product to be ready for the DX11 in 2010.

  2. Thrax
    10 Aug '09, 4:19 pm

    Inferior last generation tech like the Phenom II?

  3. Snarkasm
    10 Aug '09, 4:44 pm

    OH SHI-

  4. Cliff_Forster
    10 Aug '09, 5:13 pm

    Stay on topic, we are talking multi-gpu tech on an Intel platform now. I'm just saying, you are gonna spend an arm and a leg on a new Intel board, triple channel DDR3, and CPU to water it down with last generations graphics technology?

  5. Thrax
    10 Aug '09, 5:21 pm

    Are you gonna spend an arm on new DDR3 and a DX11 GPU only to pair it with last generation's processor technology? It's all a part of the same topic.

  6. mertesn
    10 Aug '09, 5:28 pm

    The P55 chipset supports both SLI and Crossfire. How is this limiting yourself to last generation's graphics technology?

  7. Cliff_Forster
    10 Aug '09, 5:50 pm

    That was my point mertesn, if it already supports crossfire, why bother with the SLI formality. It is just bloat that the chip set does not need.....

    Yes, I am doing a little Monday trollin.....

  8. Thrax
    10 Aug '09, 6:05 pm

    lolwut. Nothing has to go into the chipset to enable SLI, just like nothing has to go into the chipset to enable Crossfire. A company purchases a CF or SLI license to get their device IDs in the GPU drivers, which activates the CF/SLI routines.

    It's purely software if the board has two PCIe lanes of 8x or better.

  9. _k_
    10 Aug '09, 6:22 pm

    oh snap!

  10. Cliff_Forster
    10 Aug '09, 6:38 pm

    Still SLI is a feature that nobody needs. I maintain that in 2010 Crossfire will be where its at because only crossfire based solutions will be DX11 ready.

    The court rests your honor.

  11. RyderOCZ
    10 Aug '09, 6:53 pm

    Rests? on what grounds? That isn't even an argument.

    SLI = Crossfire.. just 2 different implementations.

  12. Thrax
    10 Aug '09, 6:57 pm

    SLI and Crossfire offer the same solution: Multiple GPUs.

    How is it that SLI is a feature that nobody needs, but Crossfire is?

  13. Snarkasm
    10 Aug '09, 6:59 pm

    If nobody needs SLi, nobody needs Crossfire. What a stupid statement. Come on, Cliff.

  14. mertesn
    10 Aug '09, 7:19 pm

    While we're at it, what games do you know of that will require DX11 that are coming out in 2010?

    By your logic I should just hold off on all of my purchases because sometime in the future PCI Express 3.0 cards will be coming with support for DX12 on Windows 8, making anything I could purchase now obsolete.

    The court fails, your honor.

  15. MAGIC
    10 Aug '09, 7:29 pm

    Wait.. Wait.., So you want me to buy a cpu based solely on the Price/Performance ratio but when i buy a new platform or GPU i should toss that logic out the window and buy the newest technology?
    I'm confused now.

  16. Cliff_Forster
    10 Aug '09, 8:30 pm

    I just figured I would do a little trollin. It makes Monday a little more bearable.

    You guys are too easy

Troll-free since 2003 ®