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NVIDIA protects the SLI technology and formally forbid it support from strange producers . Since NVIDIA proposed a sufficiently fast video cards, and the most productive processors belong to Intel, enthusiast was forced to buy NVIDIA chipset motherboards with intel processors support . Such motherboards had a certain overclock potential, and at the same time they propose support to SLI and 3-Way SLI technologies. Only for skulltrail platform and some laptop computers NVIDIA made an exception , after permitting systems on base of intel chipsets to support SLI. In this case NVIDIA did not miss its benefit - those motherboards were coupled with the special chips nForce 100 or nForce 200 , presenting some optimization for the SLI regime . In particular, these chips support the technologies broadcast and Posted-Write shortcut. The first allow to send one command to immediately several video cards and the second allow video cards to exchange data . As reports associate, NVIDIA decided to not release its own chipset for the LGA 1366 platform . This socket will be used with bloomfield, .Problem, as it was asserted : NVIDIA does not desire to pack force and facility in the development of chipset for small market niche. Let us recall that the mass processors LGA 1160 will appear in a year. However, the main news consists that producer desiring to ADD sli support can use the nforce 200 chip in the union with intel x58. Specifically, in the case of LGA 1366. The north bridge support four slots PCI express x16, which work in the regime PCI express x8. The nForce 200 chip will optimize the data exchange between video cards . The nForce 200 chip costs $30, and it will be sold only in the limited quantity . Related Products :
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