Quote Originally Posted by highoctane View Post
Well that I had no idea of but I still feel Intel would have resisted licensing qpi to nvidia or any other third party regardless.
Maybe, I don't know what they'd do either way if nVidia hadn't pulled what they did. Here some more.

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/60473...f200-chip.html

Quote Originally Posted by From CustomPC
The first is obviously nForce 790i for Penryn and prior CPUs, then there’s X58 with an NF200 chip, which will allow four-way and three-way SLI setups, with each slot getting 16 PCI-E 2.0 lanes. Finally, there’s the new licensed native SLI setup on X58 boards, which allows standard two-way SLI via two PCI-E slots with either 16 or eight lanes.

The other catch is that motherboard manufacturers have to send their X58 boards to go through Nvidia’s SLI Certification Labs in order to receive the ‘cookie’ that will then be embedded into the BIOS to enable full SLI support. According to Berraondo, SLI support is only ‘turned on only when our drivers determine that the motherboard has passed a special check that makes sure the key and chipset ID are a match and are in fact, certified to run SLI.’
So Intel would pay nVidia for the "Cookie" (on their boards) while nVidia Paid Intel NOTHING Certified my eye LOL!

So yes shintai, folks should wake up! Business isn't carried on like this. Intel-AMD/ATI-IBM and others have always done it the right way. It's goes like; you pay me, I pay you or I get it free if you get it free! nVidia wants; You pay me for mine but I get your tech free.