Nvidia to Release New Mobo Chipsets

[maverik-sg1]

http://www.dailytech.com/More+NVIDIA+SLI+Chipsets+Around+the+Corner/article9036.htm

NVIDIA plans to unleash new nForce SLI chipsets for AMD and Intel processors in November – the nForce 780 and 750 series. The AMD variants include the nForce 780a SLI and 750a SLI, based on the MCP72 XE and MCP72 P. The Intel variants are based on C72 XE and C72 P and named nForce 780i SLI and 750i SLI.

New features to the nForce 780 series include three PCIe x16 Gen2 support with SLI. NVIDIA will cater the nForce 780 series to enthusiasts. The lesser nForce 750 SLI solutions only support two PCIe x16 Gen2 slots with eight-lane signaling.

Additionally, NVIDIA has one more Intel chipset variant slated for January of next year. The new NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI is an Intel only chipset with support for DDR3 memory. NVIDIA hasn’t revealed much details on this chipset.

Mav's Thought - I sincerely hope they are better than their previous efforts.

 

[bazx]

i am £500 in the hole this year on nvidia crappy m/b

i will look long and hard before i let them take me from behind again

 

[Thickbrit]

They have never made a good un yet,i fully expect these to be no different.

 

[Vrykyl]

Intel chipsets and mobo's FTW

 

[advancedkill]

Why do you need 3 PCIe slots???? I want more PCI slots - not PCIe!!!

 

[maverik-sg1]

PCI is dead, long live PCI-E

multi GPU set-ups will require these (crossifre, SLI, tri-Fire, tri-SLI), especially if you add physix (meh) or a full bandwidth RAID controller

Cheers

Mav

 

[clone38]

My EVGA 680i board was really good to me,so i`ll see what these new chipset`s are like.

 

[advancedkill]

Unless our super rich, who will buy three graphics card. Three 8800ultra card would cost about £1200 AT LEAST. Also, even dual card setups are fairly rare (source: steam hardware survey - less than 20% had SLI of crossfire)

 

[Vrykyl]

3 cards will be waaaaaay cpu limited, jeeez even 2 ultras are still held back by an ln2 cooled QX chip...

 

[maverik-sg1]

You are both absolutely right - it's only for one thing, bragging rights between the three chipset and two gpu companies, plus who knows what other PCI-E delights are awaiitng us in the near future?

Either way - better face facts, PCI as popular and stable as it is, is on it's swan song, the grand finale, the stairway to heaven, the long walk, knocking knock knock knocking on heaven's door, going on up the spirit in the sky (in the sky), being served it last rights, going into one last unwinnable battle, about to do a thelma and louise, the guillotine is set....... need I go on?

 

[advancedkill]

I would rather have a KillerNIC and a X-Fi. Not to mention a TV-tuner. That's three PCI slots!!! I would rather have bragging rights for something that I can actually use!

Of course, my American friend's dad commented on this and said "Well, in my PC i run three 8800Ultra graphics cards, each with two Dell 27" 1920*1200 monitors, which is 6 monitors". He also commented taht his company paid for all of this - you can't begin to imagine what 6 27" monitors look like.

 

[Vrykyl]

tbh if theyre gonna slap as many pci-e slots in as possible other card companys are gonna have to make pci-e expansion cards - why the hell arent there any decent wireless cards or x-fi's in pci-e yet anyways??

 

[maverik-sg1]

On the subject of CPU limitations - don't forget the enthusiast boards that will allow you to mount two quad cores and 4 PCI-E x16 devices

 

[K404]

On the subject of CPU limitations - don't forget the enthusiast boards that will allow you to mount two quad cores and 4 PCI-E x16 devices

That will fail like AMDs Quad-Father- even if the performance scales well, its hot, expensive and very power hungry.

 

[maverik-sg1]

That will fail like AMDs Quad-Father- even if the performance scales well, its hot, expensive and very power hungry.

I can imagine that when these guys are asking the question 'how do we break some records?' that those features are top of their business plan 8)

We all know, no matter how bizarre, that these guys will do whatever is takes to present the competition with the mighty blow of 'We built the fastest'

I am not convinced that the 2nd Generation (the first being the AMD abortion) of these type of products will be a roaring success - but I am also of the opinion that they can't fail in the same way AMD did when they had no money but still were looking for some performance boost (from an ageing architecture that had already had it's day) to try and keep up - after all, Intel have the best chips already so anything that is better than what they already have will be a success (that is to say 'still the fastest') .

When we look at what some guys achieve with this we will all know the reasons why and bitch and moan that its not fair etc.... - but like in a race, its the result not the means that count and there are no prizes for being 2nd

 

[K404]

When we look at what some guys achieve with this we will all know the reasons why and bitch and moan that its not fair etc.... - but like in a race, its the result not the means that count and there are no prizes for being 2nd

Thankfully with things like HWB we can divide things up into categories- theres too much emphasis on being loaded enough to buy all this stuff.

If anyone wants to buy a dual CPU setup- be my guest. Most of us wont even try to compete. Congrats on winning the "whos got the most money to blow" benchmark.

On the subject of overkill- whos gonna go for Tri-SLI/ Quad SLI or 4-way Crossfire when its available?

I tihnk this is heading off-topic...

 

[maverik-sg1]

It is off topic and your views an this are noted - I must say I agree.

But lets not sit here on the 'if only the world was fair' cloud and realise that regardles of what we say/Think/Do, these products will be released and PCI will be killed off in the not too distant future (which were the main points of the topic).

As for the rest - it's down to consumers to decide what they will/will not buy - I am afraid that (globally) it will not change what sits on the top of the ORB/HWBOT WR threads which will effect the team standings regardless of our own personal positions on the matter.

Welcome to the world of deepest pockets wins awards - although has not always been the same? (start to think of the old air. versus water, versus phase, versus Dru Ice, Versus Cascade, Versus LN2 syndrome)