Hybrid NVIDIA Chipset Motherboards Launched

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 5, 2007 @07:18PM 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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Re:What is 'hybrid' about this? by ben+there... · 2007-04-05 20:25 · Score: 1, Troll

I was looking forward to drooling over a newer board design than my 680i. This isn't even as good as that. The "hybrid" part is just a cross between flagship and mainstream. There's a more common term for that: mid-range.