Intel didn’t want to talk about whether it will enable SLI on Intel branded X58 motherboards, but we got word from Nvidia that some partners will definitely enable SLI on their non-reference design motherboards.

Nvidia also said that it can’t comment whether Intel will enable SLI on its X58 boards due to the NDA with Intel, and the Intel people we met yesterday have said that this is not their piece of the pie and that they are not authorized to talk about it.

Nvidia, on the other hand, is pleased with the support that it received from Intel’s X58 chipset group to validate any manufacturer’s X58 motherboards. This is nice progress, since they were grabbing their throats just a few weeks ago.

At the same time, we learned that there will be many motherboards coming to market that are fully certified for the SLI ecosystem and they are coming from variety of motherboard manufacturers. It looks that things are starting to look better; but this also sounds like a slow death for the Nforce 200 SLI chip.

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