Nvidia has officially announced that it will be able to support upcoming Bloomfield CPUs, the first desktop parts based on Nehalem marchitecutre.

The company said that you will be able to put two or even three Geforce GTX 280 or 260 on Nehalem boards and that this will officially work.

Nvidia also confirmed that this won’t be done using its own chipset. The support comes from Nforce 200 SLI chip that will be integrated on the Tylersburg (X58) chipset. You had a chance to see the Nforce 200 chip on Skulltrail boards, but we can also confirm that this was the hottest chip on that motherboard and not everyone will be happy about it.

Adding such a chip on a reference X58 motherboard means that you need to make a lot of space for this rather hot chip and not everyone will be happy to do it, but with some financial help from Nvidia we are quite sure that there will be X58-based motherboards with SLI support.

In the super high-end market that is led by Voodoo PC, Alienware, Biohazard, Falcon Northwest and others, SLI really matters, as the customers who are spending $5000+ usually want SLI.

European guys such as Medion, Fujitsu Siemens and Scan computers are supposed to be happy about this announcement, as it might make their lives easier. Chaps like Acer and Asus also like this decision.

You can expect these boards at Q4 2008. As far as we know Nvidia won’t make its own chipset for Bloomfield, simply as Intel doesn’t allow it and we remember that some motherboard manufacturers did say that they could add Nforce 200 to X48 reference design, but it was too expensive; and therefore, no one did it.

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