Nvidia Official Announcement about X58's

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SLi on X58s :)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1224586792565.html

SANTA CLARA, CA—OCTOBER 21, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the world’s preeminent motherboard manufacturers, ASUS, EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, and DFI, have all licensed NVIDIA® SLI® technology for their new lineup of motherboards designed to work with Intel Bloomfield CPUs and X58 chipsets. The addition of SLI to these motherboards and adoption by major OEMs including Dell and others means consumers will be able to harness the power of award-winning GeForce® GPUs in single, SLI, or 3-way SLI configurations for the fastest visual computing experience on upcoming Intel Bloomfield platforms.

“Dell Gaming is known for industry-leading graphics and unparalleled performance,” said Patrick Cooper, Director of Product Planning for Dell Gaming. “With the marriage of NVIDIA SLI and the latest generation of Intel chipsets, we will continue to offer hardcore gamers the opportunity to push their Alienware systems beyond the limits of today’s hottest titles.”

New motherboards and PCs designed for SLI technology and Bloomfield processors are currently in final production and are being readied for time-to-market introduction based on Intel processor launch schedules. The motherboards and PC systems coming to market will feature a variety of graphics connectivity options, including more advanced bandwidth configurations using the NVIDIA nForce® 200 SLI processor, as well as those designed to run SLI technology natively through a licensing and certification program.

“ASUS is bringing many motherboards into production with support for NVIDIA SLI technology, and a motherboard worthy of mention is the new ASUS Rampage II Extreme which is based on Intel’s upcoming X58 chipset,” said Joe Hsieh, General Manager at ASUS Motherboard Business Unit. “This state-of-the-art motherboard is specifically designed to serve as the nucleus of the most demanding PC configurations available on the market today, and will be a boon to extreme overclockers and hardcore gamers. We are expecting gamers to take full advantage of the graphics capability that 3-way SLI provides to build a screaming-fast gaming machine. I’m sure our customers can hardly wait to start gaming!”

“EVGA is continuing its tradition of bringing true enthusiast platforms to the market following the success with NVIDIA nForce-based SLI motherboards supporting Intel CPUs,” said Joe Darwin, Director of Technical Marketing at EVGA. “By licensing NVIDIA SLI technology, the EVGA X58 motherboard will deliver the ultimate 2-way and 3-way SLI platform to, once again, meet the enthusiast’s demand.”

“We are excited to be offering a variety of different SLI-certified motherboards for our enthusiast customers,” said Jason Lee, Global DPS Marketing Manager of MSI. “Our new Eclipse product lineup, which includes the Eclipse SLI and Eclipse+ motherboards featuring exclusive DrMOS extension, three x16 PCI Express slots, and the nForce 200 processor will prove to be popular with those enthusiasts who want to run 3-way SLI with full bandwidth allocated for graphics performance.”

“When NVIDIA enabled SLI for the Bloomfield CPU, we knew we would have a hit. Our customers have been asking for this since we started talking about X58. The 3-way SLI performance delivered by 3 GeForce GTX 280s will be amazing on Bloomfield,” said Tony Liao, Director of Marketing at GIGABYTE.”

“Our new DFI LanParty UT X58-T3eH8 has many overclocker-friendly features, including server level PWM, Debug LED, and a switchable BIOS, making it a must-have platform for hardcore gamers,” said Max Chang, Sales Director at DFI. “When coupled with NVIDIA GeForce GPUs running in 3-way SLI operation, end users will enjoy the fastest gaming experience.”

X58-based motherboards certified for NVIDIA SLI technology are on display at the Intel Developer Forum being held on October 20, 2008 and October 21, 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Its good to see that they are including statements from each company who will be having one. :D
 
K1tty said:
I assume these will also support xfire still?
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Yup
mmmm EVGA lifetime warranty and US support for an intel platform motherboard. OMG! I would definitely immediately drop ASUS/Gigabyte and the rest of the taiwanese based groups... WOW
 
K1tty said:
I assume these will also support xfire still?
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Not really sure about that right now. We do know that this chipset supports them separately but i cant confirm if they can be run at the same time.

From what it looks like the DFI board has been confirmed to Do SLI and CrossFire. I dont have any info on any of the other boards right now.
 
Menelmarar said:
Yup
mmmm EVGA lifetime warranty and US support for an intel platform motherboard. OMG! I would definitely immediately drop ASUS/Gigabyte and the rest of the taiwanese based groups... WOW
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seriouslyy bro!!! EVGA board with an intel chipset?! that is amazing :D
 
I would like to see an eVGA x58 mobo, but haven't heard squat about it. Other mobo manufacturers are at least sounding off. IS eVGA going to come out with one?

 
Sexy. I haven't heard anything about an eVGA x58 board either but if they did release one, it'd be a total win in my book. :D
 
capreppy said:
I would like to see an eVGA x58 mobo, but haven't heard squat about it. Other mobo manufacturers are at least sounding off. IS eVGA going to come out with one?

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:rolleyes:
from the article above: Joe Darwin, Director of Technical Marketing at EVGA: “By licensing NVIDIA SLI technology, the EVGA X58 motherboard will deliver the ultimate 2-way and 3-way SLI platform to, once again, meet the enthusiast’s demand.”
 
novadude said:
:rolleyes:
from the article above: Joe Darwin, Director of Technical Marketing at EVGA: “By licensing NVIDIA SLI technology, the EVGA X58 motherboard will deliver the ultimate 2-way and 3-way SLI platform to, once again, meet the enthusiast’s demand.”
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Yeah. Im not even really saying anything. its all been said. :p
 
man. my eyes must be really bad. I read through that and it didn't register. sorry guys
 
RussianHAXOR said:
I believe that this was talked about earlier. Its not really a big deal in the scheme of things considering that these boards will be pretty expensive and this may not even account for more than probably a percent or two of the boards entire cost.
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AMD does not license crossfire. Why should users pay NVidia for an SLI license?
 
panhead said:
AMD does not license crossfire. Why should users pay NVidia for an SLI license?
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Because with crossfire its a different situation?

Intel and Nvidia both didnt like eachother and they both wanted to punish the other so that was with SLI and QPI.
 
RussianHAXOR said:
I believe that this was talked about earlier. Its not really a big deal in the scheme of things considering that these boards will be pretty expensive and this may not even account for more than probably a percent or two of the boards entire cost.
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Good god I hope it doesn't cost a percent of the total cost.. $500 board :(
 
If they support both SLI and Crossfire,fine,but I want to have that choice.And as long as Nvidia is only providing the SLI processor and not designing the board itself,because they've proven they can't make good motherboards.
 
RussianHAXOR said:
Because with crossfire its a different situation?

Intel and Nvidia both didnt like eachother and they both wanted to punish the other so that was with SLI and QPI.
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How is crossfile a different situation?

AMD and Intel like each other more than Nvidia and Intel? Nvidia is just gouging the consumer to make up for all the money they have lost due to their defective chips.
 
It's really sad when what was once one of the cheapest components of a build is now the most expensive...
I would never enjoy paying more than $250 for a motherboard... but that's just me :)
 
I don't know why nVidia is even bothering with the licensing fee, it seems like a brain dead business decision to me. All they probably provide is a few lines of code that turns on the SLI functionality in the video cards. They should be providing this for free and all of the motherboard makers would likely put it in the BIOS to make their customers happy. You know that someone like ASUS isn't paying the full $5 anyway, it's probably closer to $1 and they have the added expense of having two product lines that are essentially exactly the same thing.
 
K1tty said:
It's really sad when what was once one of the cheapest components of a build is now the most expensive...
I would never enjoy paying more than $250 for a motherboard... but that's just me :)
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Yes, but at the same time, what was once one of the most expensive parts of the build (cpu) is now one of the cheaper parts :)
 
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