Intel Skulltrail supports SLI, Quad SLI

DURING COMPUTEX in June of this year, we were involved in a war of words with Nvidia when it came to Intel chipsets and SLI support. Nvidia's Head PR claimed that no SLI is in the works for Intel, our own Charlie claimed otherwise.

At this year's IDF, Steve Smith of Intel fame explained that Skulltrail is sporting support for dual, and even Quad graphics when Nvidia decides to work on the support of four graphics cards at the same time.

The motherboard shown below is the key part of Intel's gaming attack coming in late Q4 or perhaps Q1'08, if it slips during debug phase.

First real V8 motherboard for enthusiasts and professionals alike sport support for four graphics cards at the same time

You can see that this is not your server board model from the first generation of Intel's V8, but rather a true enthusiast motherboard with a nice amount of PCIe 2.0 slots for graphics cards. Sadly, it is based on first generation server chipset named Stoakley, so it supports only FB-DIMMs. However, other options speak alot to high-end enthusiasts, regardless of being from gaming or professional side of things.