nVidia SLI to Appear on AMD Motherboards: Will You Jump Ship?

For quite a while there has been little choice for gamers should they be wanting an SLI setup for their computer as SLI has only ever been licensed to motherboards built upon the Intel platform whilst AMD CrossFire has been available on both AMD and Intel based motherboards. This left people wanting to use nVidia SLI with an AMD CPU an impossible prospect until now.

Yesterday, nVidia announced that they would be making its SLI technology available on AMD motherboards which changes this situation. Of course, there will be debate as to which CPU and/or GPU is better but I believe this will do much to help open up the market.

What I wonder though is what is in it for nVidia to play nice  with AMD?

For years, nVidia has sold chipsets for the AMD platform in the form of the original nForce and the subsequent generations up to the current nForce4 chipset. Unfortunately, nForce has been plagued with many bugs and flaws that could have been a turn off for gamers looking for the only SLI solution compatible with AMD CPUs (including things such as PCI bus reliability, issues regarding data corruption under high load and audio crackling with the nVidia SoundStorm solution).

Not really the best reputation nor the best way to get people to buy those expensive graphics cards for SLI. So it kind of makes sense for nVidia to license its SLI technology out to other motherboard makers who actually know what they are doing whilst still making their dough on SLI licensing fees and graphics cards.

So will you move from Intel or AMD/nForce?

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