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I plan on upgrading pretty soon to a q6600 (Firmly decided on the q6600 over the e8400 just on the basis that I have an extra two cores) and for that of course I'll need an SLI motherboard.

I have been shopping around and found some nice Asus motherboards with dual PCI express 2.0 slots and all that jazz, and they have the intel chipsets. After further reading I found out that (supposedly) to run SLI you need to have an Nvidia SLI ready chipset.

So to run SLI do I absolutely need a motherboard with an Nvidia SLI chipset or will a motherboard with an Intel chipset and 2 pci-e slots work?

Because I found some nice motherboards with intel chipsets at some great prices.

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Yes to run sli you need a board that has an sli chipset such as an 780i, 790i chipset.
If your looking at an intel board with say a x38 chipset they have two pci express 16 slots to run crossfire.

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just a noob

intel chipsets, aside from skulltrail will only run crossfire

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As others have said, yes you will need an nVidia-based motherboard in order to run SLI.

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