The supporters of technologies SLI and Crossfire perfectly know that all average price range motherboard on base of intel chipset do not support the graphic regime PCI express x8 + PCI express x8. A similar privilege is accessible only to motherboard on base of chipset intel 975X, and the regime PCI express x16 + PCI express x16 together with the interface PCI express 2.0 will be supported in chipset intel x38, whose announcement will takes place in the current block. Both chipset are most expensive among intel desktop proposals .
However, for chipsets like Intel p35 and Intel p965 it is necessary to be satisfied by PCI express x16 + PCI express x4, or to use special connection diagrams like the one proposed by asus technology crossLinx. .
As reports associate with reference to new intel road map, in the second quarter 2008 , intel company will release motherboard under the code name skyberg on base of chipset Eaglelake- P, which will use the graphic slots PCI express x8 + PCI express x8. Thus, the symmetrical Crossfire will be supported in the following year by average price range motherboards.
Eaglelake chipset will support 45 nm processors with 1333 MHz system bus. This last will also support the DDR 3-1333 memory . Those integrated chipsets series will support the video decoding acceleration (HD-DVD and Blu-ray), and also the interfaces DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort with HDCP function .
The south bridges series ICH10 will bring support to the mysterious technology danbury, and ports multipliers .