HardwareHell Freezes Over: NVIDIA Announces Native SLI Support for the Intel X58 Chipset

Yep, there's finally native SLI support on an Intel chipset without the use of any funny nForce switches. Nehalem owners with certain X58 based motherboards will get both CrossFire and native SLI support later this year. The multi-GPU platform wars are coming to an end......

Of course NVIDIA would wait until I physically left NVISION 08 to actually make an interesting announcement, but there’s no bitterness, I swear :)The big, no, huge news from today? NVIDIA is enabling native support for 2 and 3-way SLI on Intel X58 based motherboards...without the use of any nForce 200 chips.It’s not as simple as simply enabling SLI support on X58, NVIDIA wanted to both ensure compatibility and additional revenue, so there’s a certification program.Any X58 motherboard maker can submit their board for certification, which will be done by NVIDIA. If the board passes, and the motherboard manufacturer agrees to pay a certification fee (NVIDIA would not reveal how much), then the board is certified and NVIDIA provides the board manufacturer with a key to place in its BIOS. When you install the NVIDIA drivers, they check for the presence of this key in the BIOS - if it’... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]

HardwareImage Gallery: 'Fashion' PCs hit the catwalk

These PCs for the style-conscious were strutted down the runway at the PROJECT Las Vegas trade show for the fashion industry.

HardwarePanasonic and Sony tout plasma, LCD TV plans at IFA show

Panasonic is showing off 65-in. and 58-in. prototypes of its thin plasma TV at the IFA electronics show in Berlin, while Sony is touting an extremely thin LCD set at the same event.