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nVidia licenses SLI for P55 motherboards

This should be in the motherboard section.

Good move by Intel, not so good for NVIDIA. This pretty much puts the NVIDIA chipsets out of business. There aren't many people out there that purchasing NVIDIA motherboards in the first place, and many that do, well I hear that they have problems with the chipsets, or they purchased them just so that they can use SLI. Now that LGA1156 can support both Crossfire and SLI, bye bye NVIDIA.
 
It's for the best, Nvidia hasn't brought anything useful to the chipset table for 3 product generations or so.
 
Originally posted by: aka1nas
It's for the best, Nvidia hasn't brought anything useful to the chipset table for 3 product generations or so.
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Unless you count the only mobile/HTPC chipset worth anything.
 
Originally posted by: s44
Originally posted by: aka1nas
It's for the best, Nvidia hasn't brought anything useful to the chipset table for 3 product generations or so.
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Unless you count the only mobile/HTPC chipset worth anything.
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Are you talking about Ion? I've tried their other recent desktop/HTPC chipsets on the AMD side, and they are still buggy crap.
 
Originally posted by: geokilla
This should be in the motherboard section.

Good move by Intel, not so good for NVIDIA. This pretty much puts the NVIDIA chipsets out of business. There aren't many people out there that purchasing NVIDIA motherboards in the first place, and many that do, well I hear that they have problems with the chipsets, or they purchased them just so that they can use SLI. Now that LGA1156 can support both Crossfire and SLI, bye bye NVIDIA.
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Yes but it'd be more profitable if SLI was readily available cause it'd increase video cards sales. If they had to choose between selling chipsets and selling video cards for SLI on another mobo chipset, its more profitable to sell video cards. I would've bought another 8800gt but there's no sli on the mobo i have, so my next purchase might not be nvidia (probably wont). If SLI was more ubiquitous, i would gladly buy another 8800gt for sli.
 
I'm not sure what this will accomplish. It's my understanding that with the way Bloomfield is designed, you can't just split the lanes coming from the chip. You would need a bridge chip to do the job, which not only will drive up costs, but the only bridge chip anyone would use in the first place is the NF200, a chip that gives you automatic SLI qualification.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
I'm not sure what this will accomplish. It's my understanding that with the way Bloomfield is designed, you can't just split the lanes coming from the chip. You would need a bridge chip to do the job, which not only will drive up costs, but the only bridge chip anyone would use in the first place is the NF200, a chip that gives you automatic SLI qualification.
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This doesn't to be the case. The EVGA P55 board supports SLI, and AT mentions a "Classified" Edition P55 board from EVGA with an NF200 chip to come in the future. http://anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=634

It seems to me that the difference will probably be 8x/8x PCIe 2.0 for the P55 and 16x/16x PCIe 2.0 for the P55 + NF200. Isn't this essentially the same PCIe bandwidth difference as 680i and 780i which were 16x/16x PCIe 1.0 and 16x/16x PCIe 2.0, and whose only difference was the addition of NF200 with 780i?

edit: Actually, I imagine that the "Classified" will also add 3-way SLI support as well in a 16x/8x/8x config.
 
Originally posted by: nitromullet
Originally posted by: ViRGE
I'm not sure what this will accomplish. It's my understanding that with the way Bloomfield is designed, you can't just split the lanes coming from the chip. You would need a bridge chip to do the job, which not only will drive up costs, but the only bridge chip anyone would use in the first place is the NF200, a chip that gives you automatic SLI qualification.
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This doesn't to be the case. The EVGA P55 board supports SLI, and AT mentions a "Classified" Edition P55 board from EVGA with an NF200 chip to come in the future. http://anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=634

It seems to me that the difference will probably be 8x/8x PCIe 2.0 for the P55 and 16x/16x PCIe 2.0 for the P55 + NF200. Isn't this essentially the same PCIe bandwidth difference as 680i and 780i which were 16x/16x PCIe 1.0 and 16x/16x PCIe 2.0, and whose only difference was the addition of NF200 with 780i?

edit: Actually, I imagine that the "Classified" will also add 3-way SLI support as well in a 16x/8x/8x config.
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Hmm, is there a point in supporting 3 way SLI/CF in P55 (since most users with that intention would jump straight to X58) ?
 
I was extremely happy with my 680i when I first bought it (P965 and the older 975 were popular at the time), but after watching P35, X38, P45, and X48 blow it out of the water from a price/performance stand point, I'll be happy to buy an Intel chipset for my next motherboard.

Not to mention the Intel chipsets seem to be a bit more stable, and solutions to incompatibilities and other common problems are readily available.
 
Well I was using nvidia based mb's for sli but the 780i has turned me off to nvidia. It has been the most problematic chipset that I've ever used. I've had two asus striker 2 formula mb's fail this year which is why I'm using an x48 based mb now. Intel chipsets outclass nvidia in every way and now that sli is supported on them well its win win for the consumer.
 
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