I'm sure Intel wouldn't hesitate for a bit to cut Nvidia's life support, especially when Intel is diving head first into the gpu business.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display...cessor_Bus.htmlWill be very interesting to see how this plays out the rest of the year.
The 3870X2 coupled with an X38 or X48 chipset is the enthusiast's rig of choice right now, provided ATI/AMD get the drivers to cooperate. Of course, multi GPU cards may render SLI & Xfire viable only for the very hard core types as real world performance gains will become so minuscule that they aren't relevant except with the benchmarking crowd.
The benchmarking crowd is pretty much forced to buy 780i/790i to run SLI even tho the new nvidia chipset implementation will never we as good as Intel's
Its a conditioning process for me as I've been running SLI for the past 3+ years.
My newest mobo is my first Intel chipset and your 100% right, it is probably the best mobo I've ever had.