NVIDIA SLI Will Work on Some X58 Motherboards

NVIDIA has confirmed that while it won’t have a chipset ready for Intel’s new Nehalem architecture, there will be some boards available that support SLI:

This is because in order to get support manufacturers must include a $30 NF200 chipset, like there is in the nForce 780i and 750i SLI boards and Intel’s Skulltrail. There will of course still be ordinary X58 boards available that support CrossFire only, and we expect these to be available first.

This does pose some issues though - to have the privilege of SLI in addition to CrossFire support you will have to pay more for your motherboard - together both the X58 and the NF200 will cost around $100, putting estimated board prices around the £200 mark.

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