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NVIDIA SLI Technology and Intel Sandy Bridge Form the Ultimate Gaming PC

Intel, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and EVGA to Offer Sandy Bridge/P67 Motherboards With Full Support for NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU Technology

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/2010 -- NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA® SLI® technology has been licensed by the world's leading motherboard manufacturers -- including Intel, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and EVGA -- for use on their Intel P67 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel® Sandy Bridge processors.

As a result, customers who purchase a SLI-certified P67-based motherboard and a Sandy Bridge processor can equip their PCs with a single or a dual combination of NVIDIA GeForce(R) GPUs, including the recently released GeForce GTX 580 GPU and GTX 570, the world's fastest DX11 GPUs. 3-way SLI is also available on supported^[i] platforms.

"The combined processing prowess of Sandy Bridge and NVIDIA SLI technology will provide consumers with the building blocks for the ultimate gaming PC platform," said Joel Christensen, General Manager of Intel Client Board Division at Intel Corporation. "Both NVIDIA and Intel continue to share a combined passion for furthering the PC as the definitive platform for gaming, and this combination will surely be attractive to anyone building or purchasing a brand new PC in 2011."....