It is offical: NVIDIA allows SLI on Intel X58!

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wait... can someone explain this to me in n00b terms? i'm still a little confused but this is what i'm understanding from all this. x58 mobos are the new nehalem chipset from intel that will natively support xfire just like x38/48 because intel will not give nvidia permission to have native SLI on this new chipset. so to get around this, nvidia makes their own chipset for mobo manufacturers to slap on the board so the board has both x58 chip + nForce200 chip?

no, NVidia won't make chipset anymore (at least in the beginning...); they found an agreement with Intel to integrate NForce 200 on X58 boards, which doesn't equal to an NVidia Chipset. NVidia will just provide the NForce PCIe bridge chip, nothing more. The boards equipped with it will support both CF (native on Intel mobos anyway) and SLI.

It's more NVidia that won't allow SLI to run native on X58. They're selling the NForce200 for implementation on the X58 because they like our bank accounts very much...when everyone knows that SLI would run perfectly on an Intel chipset if NVidia drivers didn't prevent it.