Quote Originally Posted by Anemone View Post
Just to finish the SLI topic (sorry very little sleep lately)

If Quadro works on ordinary X16 slots without that 200 chip thingy (technical term then that chip thingy is truly just useless garbage?
It's garbage in the sense that Nvidia most likely could make it work on any platform. The only thing that I believe would be a valid explanation is that they have some silly extra something going on under the hood that's facilitating cards talking to each other directly rather then all the way back to the CPU and down, but all that should be happening over the SLI connector.

Really there's probably 2 reasons. First, because they can. They have patent on it and can make mobo guys/Intel do whatever they want to "enable" it. In this case, buying a $30 chip. Second, if they were to enable SLI on Intel, they'd have to validate it's functionality on every board that comes with an Intel chipset.