nVidia Licenses SLI to None Other Than ATI/AMD

[Computermaster]

You heard right, son.

[quote=Official nVdia Blog]
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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[url=http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-sli-for-amd/]Source[/url]

nVidia or ATI?

[B]NVIDIA OR ATI?![/B]

[B][U]BOTH!!![/U][/B]

[img]http://gyazo.com/c0588ef1de4343f87ea3f0037710a221.png[/img]

[JohnEdwards]

[img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-bravo.gif[/img]

welcome to 2 weeks ago pal!

[Computermaster]

April 28th.

Beautiful math there, bucko.

[JohnEdwards]

[QUOTE=Forumaster;29579815]April 28th.

Beautiful math there, bucko.[/QUOTE]
Sorry I heard this so many times I forgot it was only a few days

[.Lain]

:buddy:

[Computermaster]

[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;29579902]Sorry I heard this so many times I forgot it was only a few days[/QUOTE]

I forgive you. :h:

I only heard about it because I got bored, google'd nVidia, and it said in the news section "10 hours ago". Didn't read the blog date until you said something. :v:

[ManningQB18]

Misleading title, I read it as if they were removing SLi support from Intel.

Although I forgive you, since this is good news that I had not yet heard of!

[Paul-Simon]

For one second there, I imagined being able to Sli an Nvidia card with an AMD card.

[Shooter]

93% of all multi-GPU setups use SLI?

:lol:

[Shadaez]

[QUOTE=Forumaster;29579747]You heard right, son.

[url=http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-sli-for-amd/]Source[/url]

nVidia or ATI?

[B]NVIDIA OR ATI?![/B]

[B][U]BOTH!!![/U][/B]

[img_thumb]http://gyazo.com/c0588ef1de4343f87ea3f0037710a221.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

This has nothing to do with ATI (except that they're owned by AMD), this has to do with AMD chipsets using SLI officially, SLI is two nVidia cards used at the same time.

[Alex_DeLarge]

I don't get it, I heard about it last time and I got the impression that we were going to be able to use an AMD and Nvidia card simultaneously but now it looks like we won't be able to. Explain?

[Reapaninja]

[QUOTE=Alex_DeLarge;29581610]I don't get it, I heard about it last time and I got the impression that we were going to be able to use an AMD and Nvidia card simultaneously but now it looks like we won't be able to. Explain?[/QUOTE]

you're probably thinking of lucid hydra, which was a piece of shit

[midlet_guy]

SLI CPU's ?

[derpmeifter]

[QUOTE=midlet_guy;29588260]SLI CPU's ?[/QUOTE]

Using SLI for two nvidia graphics cards when you have an AMD cpu.

[Crest]

[QUOTE=Forumaster;29579747]According to Steam, 93% of all multi-GPU systems in use today use SLI[/QUOTE]

I find that incredibly hard to believe.

[Shadaez]

[url]http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey[/url]
yeah I don't even see it on the survey anywhere about multi GPUs.

[Strontboer]

Holy shit guys, I can't log into PSN anymore!

[Smug Bastard]

[QUOTE=Djessey;29614588]Holy shit guys, I can't log into PSN anymore![/QUOTE]

...K