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Nvidia Licenses SLI to AMD, Did Hell Freeze Over?
Lupin:
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-sli-for-amd/
--- Quote ---With new DX11 games coming out, lots of you guys (and gals) are building new gaming rigs and trying to decide what CPU to use. When you’re deciding what to build, finding the best CPU price performance ratio is key. After all, PC hardware doesn’t grow on trees!
Long term gamers probably remember that for a long time AMD offered great high-end CPUs, but in recent years, AMD’s stature as the preferred gaming CPU fell by the wayside and Intel CPUs have been the gamers’ choice. For this reason, we’ve only licensed SLI for motherboards with Intel chipsets. However, we’ve been recently hearing chants of “SLI for AMD CPUs”, and figured that now is a great time to do it. After all, we want to make sure gamers can benefit from the new CPU competitive landscape and ensure they have NVIDIA SLI – the highest performance, most stable multi-GPU solution - to game on! According to Steam, 93% of all multi-GPU systems in use today use SLI.
So today, we are pleased to announce that SLI has been licensed to the world’s leading motherboard companies for integration onto their upcoming motherboards featuring AMD’s 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI are among the first motherboard manufacturers to offer this new capability, with more coming on board shortly.
We hope you enjoy GeForce GTX gaming in SLI on motherboards featuring either Intel or AMD CPUs.
Let us know what you think by responding below.
Thanks, and happy gaming!
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HiddenJumper:
This is a good thing. Now I can think about getting an AMD processor like I've always wanted and still get what I like out of Nvidia SLI ;D
kureshii:
About time, too. Techreport had a short article on this (through VR-Zone) almost a month ago, though it seems there'll still be the usual restrictions (again, no surprise). With the death of their chipset business, I guess they're finally starting to feel the pinch. I doubt they'll earn very much revenue through SLI licensing and NF200 sales, considering AMD's market share isn't really large (and the AMD enthusiast market is even smaller), but it should help them out reputation-wise, especially with the recent spate of GPU releases.
Meomix:
Always remember folks.
AMD CPU = Dead Torrenting.
kureshii:
Lupin: If you think that's hell freezing over, wait 'til you see this:
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20851
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