Quote Originally Posted by chuchnit View Post
Even X58 "required" two nf200's for Nvidia to allow 4-way. X58 can do 4-way @ x8 link. I'm guessing they've came to their senses and are going to allow 4-way with x8 links?
All amds high end chipsets from AM2 and up had enough pcie lanes to do 4 way sli/crossfire without the need for third party chips.(38 pcie 2.0 lanes)
So theres no change of heart here
As for the x58, there were four variants of the chipset, and two of those offered enough pcie lanes (36 pcie 2.0 lanes) to do 4 way on its own, nf200 chips were used to aquire nvidias license i believe.
The only thing that changed is that nvidia licensed SLI for 990FX.But it works on 790FX and 890FX also, you just need to hack the driver.Its paper/lawyer thing, not technical problem.