SLI gets no love from Intel!

Lol, that's gonna hurt. I suppose it's Intel's way of getting back at Nvidia for not giving premission for x38/48 chipsets to support sli, in order to promote their own motherboard chipset (650i/680i/780i).

Can't do that. They'll be homeless.

I hope this hurts Nvidia. When Nvidia denied Intel's request to have x38/48 chipset support sli, in order to push their inferior 650i/680i chipsets, the consumers are the ones who suffered. It ought to teach Nvidia some respect for consumers.

Hmm Guess I didn't see it that way.

Due to there is strong competition between Intel and Nvidia, they won't love each others now , if AMD / ATI can be stronger in future they may love each other again.

In your dreams.

Who is gonna use Multi-GPU anyways?
I have better things in mind than running two 200W monsters...

'May you live in interesting times' goes the old Chinese curse...

So Nvidia refuses to license it's SLI to Intel, now Intel refuses to license it's newest reference design to Nvidia. Sounds like two children in a playground arguing over sandboxes...

I really see no winners here, just losers of varying degrees, with we consumers losing the most of all.

Maybe Intel should have bought up ATI, they certainly could have weathered the capitol hit better than AMD, and they would then be in a much better position ti have a war with Nvidia.

As to Nvidia buying AMD? Fat chance. US won't let the technology ownership go overseas, and if by some fluke they did allow the xfer of technology, Intel would rescind it's x86 license.

IBM could buy AMD and ATI lock stock and barrel, and not even have to go very far into their cash reserves... But they won't. They have spent the last eight years or so restructuring into a services business for the most part, except for the very high end mainframe / clustered CPU businesses.

So to quote (Bob) Dylan, "the times they are a changin". Remains to be seen if the times will get better or worse.

Guess who wins? AMD/ATI.
First, Intel supports ATI's technology.
ANd nVidia will be looking for AMD for some help,
Man I'm loving this.
Intel's taking this step to just try to kill of nVidia before any real war starts,
and AMD/ATI benefits(if they still survive when Nehalem comes out.)

@ Sacre...Who said ATI cards are sub par? .....thats a Sacrilegious statement ... for example the 3870...though it performed a little slower, it released for $220 compared to the 8800GT for $250 (which was available for (>$300) for a good two months.... that way 3870 was as good as, or even better bang for buck than the 8800GT for quite a while .. and i think it still is, especially for the mass consumers. .......... And all this holds good only till this June, when the 4870 and its mean gang releases........ so the real subpar product for a long time was from Nvidia with their misbegotten 9800GTX and GX2. Yuck!!

Nvidia buying AMD?? I fell of my chair laughing....... AMD was the king until the 45nm Penryns came along...yes i know Intel is ahead just because of that ...but its not extremely ahead....i suspect AMD will catch up by q3/q4 2009 for sure....Nehalem is going to be expensive, so the mass consumer population ain't gonna get it till it gets cheaper....and that takes a long time.... now somebody might argue that even though Nehalem is gonna be expensive, the current Penryns would be cheaper then.........well AMD releases all of its products CHEAP!!... and not because they're inferior but because they don't cheat consumers.

And anyways Intel is favoring ATI so sux to Nvidia and its overblown mobos and underwhelming SLI.

ps: I'm not an AMD fanboy, just a perpetually p!ssed off consumer. I love my 8800GT though.

Well, this has been going around for a while and if it actually happened it would be very bad for NVidia. At the same time it would be a bit of a shock if this happened ASSUMING NVidia still has the top cards. Does Intel know something about the R700 and GT200 that we don't?

That's where you get the cheap hardware, silly. Children with little hands are perfect for soldering on those chips.

Sad fact. The US is going to he!! in a hand basket.

We're gonna need better cooling. Heard it's warm there this time of the year.

What Im saying is, as soon as anything comes along thats competitive, and theyve pulled this crap on us, whos going to stay loyal to a company that refuses to do best business with its own customers?

History shows us that this attitude allows for competition, excluding your customers. or more simply, not being able to give then what they want. I know they can, if they wanted to, but they choose not to, despite us, their customers. When a customer base is snubbed, or left wanting, it allows for other players to fill the gap. The logical choice is AMD, but that isnt the only one. If this keeps going, there far bigger players thatll start smelling opportunity here if it doesnt change

not to mention war too, and suffering.

Junior Bush? Yo mean "Bush the Lesser."

You have the power to decide how your money is spent. You don't have the power to decide how the pizzaface kid next door spends his money. As long as he still buys teh 1337 9800gtx, they can still milk it.

Dont forget that heartless muthafucka Dick Cheney

yea and since Reagan brough elements of Fascism into play here

Just a guess, but are you a Marxist? Because if you are, then let me clue you, it doesn't work on even the most basic level.

Jimmy Carter was no baffoon, he knew how to work the system quite well thank you.

besides, we were **** since 1913 when the 16tha amendment was "ratified" and the Federal Reserve banking system was created.

lmao, nice