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Intel, others license SLI technology for P55-based motherboards
With the addition of the latest Core i7 and i5, SLI is now obtainable on all consumer PC platforms, including the Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo as well as AMD's Phenom II. An Intel exec said that SLI is the perfect complement to their future CPU and system board offerings. The Lynnfield line and corresponding motherboards are expected to debut in the third quarter of this year, probably next month.
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Rage_3K_Moiz
on August 10, 2009 12:15 PM |
Is CrossfireX also supported? Awesome news if it is. I hope these go the way of the P45 and P35 chipsets. |
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Matthew
on August 10, 2009 12:28 PM |
I haven't seen anything as official as this announcement but I'm pretty sure Asus, ECS and EVGA (probably others) have shown P55 boards with CrossfireX support. |
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Rage_3K_Moiz
on August 10, 2009 1:04 PM |
CrossfireX and SLI support on the same board like the X58s? That'd be great! Thanks! |
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Guest
on August 11, 2009 7:40 AM |
Great news although I don't see immediate advantage since P55 has only 16 PCIe lanes. Thus in SLI you can have no more than 2x8 lanes, which I guess it is not goed enough for higher end cards... |
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Rage_3K_Moiz
on August 11, 2009 12:43 PM |
That is PCI-E 2.0, which means two PCI-E 2.0 x8 slots have the same bandwidth as two PCI-E 1.1 x16 slots. The x16 SLI is a marketing ploy from the nForce4 days; there is no noticeable difference from using it over x8 SLI, since there is no card I know of that can completely saturate the PCI-E 1.1 x16 bus, let alone PCI-E 2.0 x16. |
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