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Hybrid NVIDIA Chipset Motherboards Launched

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the little-bit-of-this-little-bit-of-that dept.

MojoKid writes "Filling the price gap between the high-end nForce 680i SLI and more affordable 650i SLI chipsets, without sacrificing any advanced features, motherboard manufacturer Asus has created a hybrid motherboard chipset in cooperation with NVIDIA, dubbed the "Dual X16 SLI". Designed for the Intel platform, the chipset combination employed on the P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard offers true, dual PCI Express x16 electrical connections for graphics, dual Gig-E LAN support and a slew of other features found on high-end 680i boards. HotHardware pits the P5N32-E SLI Plus against an nForce 680i SLI to see if Asus' hybrid chipset approach truly offers all of the performance of the more expensive 680i SLI for a fraction of the cost."

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  1. Re:And the answer is? by Barny · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get over it, new motherboards (particularly budget line with lots of features) is geek news.

    As a worker at an OEM who has some input into buying decisions these sorts of things are handy to know, and also I am pretty sure you forgot the bit where this is only a geek blog ;)

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  2. Re:Slow news day by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope there a graphics bard built in it. So, whatt do you want, pictures or sonnets?
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  3. To proudly go where no man has gone before! by Fizzl · · Score: 4, Funny

    dual PCI Express x16 electrical connections for graphics

    Now that I call progress! Holy shit! Electrical?!?
    None of that old fashioned, noisy, pneumatic video signalling for ASUS!
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