Intel Skulltrail Supports SLI - Sort Of

dino7

Duringhis keynote today at IDF, Intel’s Pat Gelsinger showed off a machinebased on the company’s Skulltrail enthusiast gaming platform. Skulltrail is a dual-socket platform based on the Stoakly platfprm thatsupports Intel’s upcoming 45nm Quad-Core processors and offers PCIExpress 2.0 support and true dual-x16 PEG slots (or four x8 PCI Expressx16 slots).               
               

   
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Intel's Skulltrail Demo Machine with SLI                                               

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Update:We've just got word that Intel (and perhaps some of their partners)will be using an nForce MCP on some of their Intel-chipset basedmotherboards, and it's these boards that will support SLI.               
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Update 2: We've got some information directly from NVIDIA about Skulltrail and its SLI support that we wanted to share with you all:                                

                                

INTEL SKULLTRAIL PLATFORM FEATURES NVIDIA SLI TECHNOLOGY                                                                                

                                

• NVIDIA nForce 100 Media and Communications Processors Provide An Exciting SLI-Ready Platform for Intel Customers
• Inteldemonstrated its new “Skulltrail” motherboard at this week’s IntelDevelopers Forum in San Francisco, CA. Skulltrail is a dual-socketmotherboard that is targeted at ultra-high-end desktop enthusiasts andworkstation customers.
• TheSkulltrail motherboard uses Intel's workstation “Stoakley” chipsetdesigned for 2P CPU operation (1P configurations are not supported).
• To enable NVIDIA SLI support, Intel has purchased NVIDIA nForce 100 SLI MCPs from NVIDIA.                     
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• TheNVIDIA nForce 100 MCP converts a single x16 PCI Express Gen 1 bus intodual x16 PCI Express Gen 1 buses. This is how SLI is being supported onSkulltrail.                                                               
• NVIDIAassisted Intel in the bring-up and testing of the Skulltrailmotherboard which was publicly demonstrated at the Intel DevelopersForum in San Francisco this week.                                                               
• NVIDIASLI technology is the world’s leading multi-GPU platform, allowingmultiple NVIDIA GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs) to worktogether, resulting in scalable performance.                                                               
• Intel has not licensed SLI technology from NVIDIA. Intel purchased NVIDIA nForce 100 MCPs to enable support for SLI.   
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• Skulltrailis the only Intel motherboard which will feature NVIDIA SLI support.Intel is not using the NVIDIA nForce 100 MCP on any other chipsets,including X38.                                                               
• Forother 1P segments of the Intel market, NVIDIA has a wide variety of SLIproducts already available, including the leading nForce 680i SLI MCPfor enthusiasts and gamers.                                                               
• Skulltrail motherboards will only be available directly from Intel.

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directly from Intel
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