This has been slowly running around in my head since this morning, and I'm more and more impressed. > Skulltrail was one of the first platforms to support SLI

This has been slowly running around in my head since this morning, and I'm more and more impressed. > Skulltrail was one of the first platforms to support SLI on chipsets not designed by Nvidia. It achieves this by including two NVIDIA nForce 100 PCIe 1.1 switch (two x16 to one x16) chips. The implementation of SLI supports Quad SLI technology, which is achieved through the use of two dual-GPU graphics cards from NVIDIA, including the GeForce 9800 GX2. This gives a total of four graphics processors. Nvidia specifically (via licensing) forbid SLI unless GPUs were connected to a Nvidia chip[1]. So Intel just bought two Nvidia PCIe switches & put all the big x16 slots behind these switches, and the GPU processors would happily run in SLI. It's basically a cheezy hardware hack to on the sly subvert a shitty fascist meanspirited company, that was playing gross monopolistic anti-PC market games. Fuck Nvidia man! Fuck yeah Intel, fuck these jackasses! Skulltrail indeed! A great historical case of Nvidia being absolute shits, and finally someone actually having a one up on jerk-ish behavior! Go Intel! [1] LTT, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNo7qoLRtkQ#t=7m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNo7qoLRtkQ#t=7m