Quote: Originally Posted by $SOLID$ Necro It's not just a complete rumor though... there are bits and peices that have been leaked, such as boards with SLI support shown at Computex! Intel gets a desktop SLI licence from Nvidia Even more surprising after doing some deep digging..you can have your cake and eat it too..SLI and X-fire support on one board!?!?!?! Arrival of X38 boards - Page 2 - VR-Zone IT & Lifestyle Forum! Now one has to read between the lines here...it shows "Official" X-Fire logos, but not SLI's official Logo, merely dual 16x NVIDIA support, the NDA"s are supposed to be lifted in August, so we shall see then for sure one way or another. NVIDIA looks to have finally broke down and gave them an official liscence to do it, or that first pic would not exist...they want to sell lots of high end video cards, and keep people from going to ATI/Crossfire...but doing so may hurt sales of there own motherboard chipsets. More below: X38 will do SLI Nvidia denies SLI to Intel Nvidia seen cosying up to Intel What Nvidia got from Intel The moment ATI and AMD got in to bed together, Intel/NVIDIA SLI was a done deal...it was just a matter of figuring out who got the top and who got stuck on the bottom at first. I think they finally agreed on standing up and facing each other, now the only thing left to do is for them to publicly admit they did the dirty deed Other X-38 news: Intel to push two new technologies with X38 chipset DickNervous...on other minor thing, just to set the record straight for ya' SLI "Memory" technology is a bit more than it appears, it is not the simple explination you gave. I have that on my Stryker Intel board..and what it does when enabled is it allows aggressive pre-set OC profiles for the memory. When enabled in the bios using OCZ Reaper PC9200, it sets the ram at 5-5-5-15 with 2.3volts, and operates at 1150MHZ, wich is quite a bit tighter timings than if left at default (5-6-6-6-18 at DDR 800 or 1066..I will have to double check the default settings again) This is prety much the same as what you will be finding on the X-38 under Intel's new marketing name of "Extreme Memory and Extreme Tuning Utility" previously mentioned. Now..is it a big deal? Not to someone who allready knows how to OC, but for someone who is "Nervous" about playing with ram settings to find a stable OC, it might be

Nice play on words there. On the SLI Memory, perhaps I did over-simplify it a bit, but it is still basically more marketing than technical. It means that the RM was tested at a particular timing/fsb setting and "blessed" to work at that speed, which is beyond what it would do on a mobo with a different chipset.

As for the X38, I only continue to say rumored 'cause it is not official. Yes, there were boards at Computex that hinted at SLI support for the X38. Yes, it would make sense for nVidia to license SLI to Intel for use in Intel Chipsets. But until it is official I don't want to bet the farm on it. I saw most of those articles you linked today while doing some more research. I also saw ones that said product will be in retail channels anywhere between end of August to October, so I guess we will have to wait a little while and see.