Gigabyte GA-G1975X Review @ Hexus

Intel has been rather quiet when it comes to chipset releases though I think we can blame the major hardware sites for also dropping the ball having been blinded by the nForce 4 and SLI chipsets.
"i975X isn't the first Intel chipset/motherboard to support multi-GPU rendering. The Intel D955XBK reference motherboard that we reviewed a while back took that honour. It supported ATI's CrossFire technology but not NVIDIA's SLI. That remains the case with the i975X. that is, immediate CrossFire compatibility but, as yet, no driver support to enable a couple of GeForce cards to run in tandem, and it's a shame that NVIDIA and Intel haven't been able to thrash out a deal that would see SLI run on a non-NVIDIA motherboard.

A new name goes along with immediate multi-GPU support from, initially, ATI. i975X, then, is a slight chipset tweak than a new launch, and we can appreciate why Intel has kept it under the press radar. "
I think we all know why nVidia isn't releasing any drivers for the Intel board; it would be in direct competition with their own SLI enabled chipset on the Intel side.

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