Do you remember the story behing Robin Hood? He is a man known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny! Well, AMD doesn't want you to think that NVIDIA is going SLI away with today's announcement that SLI will be licensed to Intel X58 Express platforms. The story I wrote about this subject today sums this up in the title: NVIDIA Enables SLI on Intel X58 Chipsets For a Fee
Some notes I took during my conference call with AMD/ATI:
- AMD's position has been open as a platform since day when they first launched the technology in June of 2006.
- ATI doesn't charge a licensing fee or fee to validate CrossFire support, so CrossFire costs consumers nothing.
- If you get SLI certified they forbid another graphics card logo to be placed on the box.
I totally agree with AMD/ATI on this issue. But Nvidia is too greedy! I knew a long time ago that SLI would work on "non Nvidia" platforms. A prime example was some of the ULi chipsets (prior to their being bought out by Nvidia - mind you this was only done to kill their competitive developments!). At the same time I hope that Nvidia continues to be jackasses about it and wants "charge fees" for SLI certification. That will simply means it won't happen as much and that helps ATI.
But for the record, I'm not an Nvidia fanboi! My current gaming rig uses an Nvidia Chipset (780i) and SLI (a pair of Palit 8800GTs). I just don't care for the way they try to do business.
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