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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. Slow news day by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Manufacturer announces slightly different model of thing at lower price. How did this get in? Slow news day?

  2. And the answer is? by geekyMD · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This is just an advertisement manifesting as news! Was there any info in the slashdot summary other than a new product has been released?

    Even a simple, yes/no/sort of would have been more helpful than nothing.
    TFA is interesting and all, but it should have a summary. Not a teaser!

    Very simple marketing tactics. I would have expected better from slashdot.
    (oh wait, nevermind, thats what I have come to expect from slashdot. silly me)

  3. What is 'hybrid' about this? by jkrise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And I thought... like, it's a cross between a chipset and a motherboard, genetically engineered by NVidia!

    Just some more inane marketing speak.

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    If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
  4. Re:Only one feature I really care about.... by Emetophobe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nvidia will come out with decent open drivers when you can convince them that ATI will not steal their driver tricks/optimization. Likewise, you must convince ATI that Nvidia will not read ATI's open source drivers... Good luck with that!