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NVIDIA's 680i SLI Chipset Ready for Primetime
AnInkle writes, "The Tech Report conducts their usual exhaustive evaluation of NVIDIA's other big launch today, the nForce 680i SLI. The new chipset pairs an already proven south bridge chip with a new north bridge that has impressive overclocking potential and a redesigned (read: fast) memory controller. Combined with a motherboard design, production-quality BIOS and polished tweaking software that are all attractive and retail-ready, you end up with a 'complete reference platform that's perfect for picky enthusiasts and serious overclockers,' if you want to pay for it."
Why is this listed under Intel?
Same story... On the same page?
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I wish they'd stop doing that, I just BOUGHT a brand new motherboard with the 550 SLI about 2 months ago... now both my 79xx card and my MB are "obsolete" and some damned 13 year old will get this new stuff for xmas and have shinier graphics than mine!
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How well is it supported in Linux ? I don't care about the new glitz if I cannot make use of it.
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How can the Linux community come to grips with a driver that remains closed source with distro partners (rhymes with Fat Cat) that refuses to support a closed source driver?
It seems in the majority of benchmarks that any lead this new mainboard had was very slight. The best things the article had to say about the reference board was the arrangement of components to prevent clutter/collision and the array of options available in the BIOS. Good things, but all a little meh. Maybe I just like seeing CPU / Video card reviews because the difference in scores tend to be more obvious.
Next year we can have NVIDIA TRI, because 3 cards are better than 2! They can demonstrate with a realtime rednering of stubble that is 2x nicer, with HDR.
NVIDIA also launched a new enthusiast line of motherboard chipsets today in support of Intel's Core 2 Duo/Quad and AMD Athlon 64 processors. NVIDIA's nForce 680i SLI and nForce 680a SLI motherboard chipsets will also allow a pair of GeForce 8800 series graphics cards to run in tandem for nearly double the performance. The new chipset also offers a ton of integrated features, like Gigabit Ethernet Link Teaming, FirstPacket traffic priortization and MediaShield RAID technologies.
I've always had a thing for intel motherboards, at least when building computers for use at work. Something about having an intel chipset on an intel board always seemed to result in fewer motherboard setup problems. Sure some of the tweaking was not there, but for the "it just needs to work" systems i wasn't looking for tweaking. The only problem was having to use an intel processor. Now that nVidia is making motherboards, or so it seems, this should create a reliable solution in the AMD-flavor of motherboards. Now to convince my boss...
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> if you want to pay for it Aww... I was hoping it would be free..
I mean, seriously, is that just a random marketing buzzword to make them sound special? Are other BIOS's not "production-quality"?
I won it at GeForce Lan 3. WOOT. I also won 2gb of Corsair XMS2 800MHz memory, a 7900 GT, and a Corsair 620w PSU. I already have a 7900GT so it looks like I finally get to build an SLI system.
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Sorry for bragging. Unfortunately it's late and I have to work tomorrow so no system building for me tonight
I am so stoked about building this system. I'll be buying a C2D tomorrow to go in it as the best I have right now is a P805D lol.
Cheers!
There is simply too much glass..
Is it just me or are most of the board's advertised features part of the southbridge chip, which isn't new?
It seems the only change is the northbridge supporting the core2 now.
In other words, amd fanboys go back to sleep, nothing to see here for you.
I'm gonna go out and buy this crap, just cause it was a slashdot article!! YAY!!! I'm glad that what ever bullshit next generation video card makes headline news here at slashdot, so I can throw cash at it!!!! Oh wait, I DON'T GIVE A GOOD GOD DAMN. Thats cause I'm not a windows gamer or someone looking to do high end graphics (read: commercial work-style graphics), on the cheap. Yeah, I forgot. My bad.
Suck a lemon?
I always get a laugh out of this sort of thing. The basic premis here is that at stock speeds it is about the same as other motherboards (Intel Core 2 Duo). However the differenace is that it overclocks like a motherfu*ker. If you look at its compitition in the Asus and Gigabyte using an intel chipset, they also overclock well (if not quite so much). The big kicker is that this new board costs about 300$ compaired to like 170$ or even 130$.
So the moral of the story is just because some piece of computer equipment does something really well, a better computer it does not make (within reason, most people have some sort of cost restrictions to their lives). What I mean by this is, why buy a 300$ motherboard to overclock a 210$ CPU, when you can buy a 170$ motherboard and use the extra 130$ to buy a better CPU to overclock in the first place? Thats the differance between an E6300 and a E6600, for those that know what that means. Of course if your like me, you think the money would be better spent on a E6400, and pocket the change, for say something really important like beer or possibly pizza.
Of course prices will go down, but so with the compitition (at least to a certain threshold), its all about finding that perfect (or as close as you can get it) balance of components and price.
Just my 2 cents.... Cheers!