Quote Originally Posted by thephenom View Post
Ummm, no.....have you seen the HP blackbird which uses the Asus 680i striker board, you can configure it with SLI or CF. It was ATI/AMD that allowed CF to run on SLI chipset.

What you guys forget is that NV sells chipsets to "complete" their platform. This strategy has worked VERY well. Even though it's probably ATI to blame for not having competitive products for so long until the RV670 and R680. Big SIs and OEMs prefer platforms, (hence the reason why AMD bought ATI to provide a complete platform) so if anything goes wrong, they just talk to 1 vendor instead of being bounced between 2 vendors. Despite the success of RV670 and R680s, from now till late this year, you will still be seeing Yorkfield being paired up with 780i and 790i on SLI platform rather than seeing X38/48 with CF.
Ummm no Blackbird is great now. If nVidia can't get an Intel license, it becomes an also-ran when Nehalem ships. Sorry, but they're greedy Bas^$%#@s. They want free licenses for other's IP while they want everyone to pay them for their IP. I don't know but that sounds like BS to me.

As Intel launches newer products, nVidia's share will get smaller and smaller. We might get to a point where nVidia becomes VIA back in 2000. Reverse engineering for Intel products and using none Industry standard products with horrible results.

Sure they'll do great in the Discrete Card market. But it's not like ATI/AMD is sucking LOL!