Intel 2x quad core gets SLI

Zarolho

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IDF 2007:But only for that
Scull trail will be Intel's first SLI high end success. After a long time Intel conviced Nvidia to let them Intel go but this is a Scull trail exclusive only.


You can forget about official SLI support on upcoming X38 motherboards as Nvidia wants to sell its 780a chipsets to Intel's high end customers.


We dont even have to say that Intel is not really happy about it. Intel will show some cool demos at the show and some of them includes Nehalem and Scull trail the dual socket quad core machine, with eight cores, that Intel has been showing for a while.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3103&Itemid=1


Eu recuso-me a postar rumores ou especulações com origem do Fud... Mas o Fugger está na IDF e a "brincar" com os novos "toys" da Intel e confirma...

«...Skulltrail runs SLI, the overclocked demo's here have dual 8800 Ultra's...»

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2439627&postcount=17
 
Intel X38 Supports SLI ?

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, FB-DIMM memory and offers PCI Express 2.0 support and true dual-x16 PEG slots (or four x8 PCI Express x16 slots). 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. According to Intel, this is a special version of Intel X38 paired with NVIDIA's nForce MCP to enable SLI support. There's no word on official SLI support with future Intel chipsets, though.



Ed. by W1zzard: You can't pair X38 with any NVIDIA MCP because both are the same: a Northbridge with memory controller. It would be possible to put an NVIDIA southbridge on the board but this wouldn't enable SLI because that many PCI-E lanes are not routed through the SB. Since technically SLI works on ANY chipset, NVIDIA could enable SLI on X38 only if an NVIDIA SB is present.

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