Nvidia Delivers New Gaming SLI MCP

By Digital Trends Staff Published October 25, 2009

Nvidia today unveiled a new SLI media and communications processor (MCP) targeted towards creating the ultimate gaming platform for the latest and upcoming x86 PC platforms. The new Nvidia nForce 590 SLI MCP should be available from a variety of system builders and motherboard manufacturers shortly.

The Nvidia nForce 590 SLI MCP, said its developer, can utilize the power of up to one, two, or even four NVIDIA GeForce GPUs for high-definition gaming. Features of this SLI MCP include a complete over-clocking solution, optimized networking technology that gives higher priority to network game traffic, a core-logic solution to take advantage of the new Enhanced Performance Profiles (EPP) memory specification, support for up to 6 SATA 3GB/sec hard drives and support for dual RAID 5 configurations.

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“Nvidia nForce-based motherboards continually are some of the top-selling products we offer on TigerDirect.com,” said Carl Fiorentino, President of TigerDirect.com, in a statement. “Clearly, Nvidia has a direct pulse to the enthusiast communities, and we are excited about the features and performance Nvidia has brought to the table once again with their new Nvidia nForce 500 line-up. We are confident enthusiasts will be putting motherboards based on the Nvidia nForce 590 SLI MCP at the very top of their wish lists.”

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