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NVIDIA Corp. has announced its new breed of platform processors that feature more PCI Express lanes, which may theoretically boost performance of gaming computers that feature two graphics cards. The new chipsets are to be available for both AMD64 and Intel Pentium microprocessors later this year, but Dell’s XPS 600 gaming PC already feature NVIDIA’s nForce4 SLI x16 Intel Edition.

“The introduction of the new Dell XPS 600 with our new NVIDIA SLI X16 MCP validates SLI technology as a new gaming standard for enthusiasts,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA.

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI 16x platforms utilize the company’s new system platform processors (the company refers its memory controller hubs as SPPs) and media and communication processors (MCPs), each of which sports 16 or more PCI Express lanes and connects to each other using high-speed “dedicated proprietary connection”. The new nForce4 SLI 16x inherited I/O capabilities of the first-generation nForce4 chipsets, which are among the world’s most feature-rich platform logic.

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