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Hybrid NVIDIA Chipset Motherboards Launched
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."
Manufacturer announces slightly different model of thing at lower price. How did this get in? Slow news day?
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)
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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Yawn. Wake me up when the motherboard has optical connections to the video card.
The ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus has been out for ages; and there have already been a number of reviews on it...
Now that I call progress! Holy shit! Electrical?!?
None of that old fashioned, noisy, pneumatic video signalling for ASUS!
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They don't each have a full 16 lanes of signaling backing them up. There is probably 16 total lanes, so if both are in use they get 8 lanes per, despite being electrically 16x. They started denoting things like this because people were getting confused and thinking that because there were 16x slots, it implied a full 16 lanes per slot. Not the case, it's pretty rare boards that have that, since graphics cards today don't need it. So you'll see some things like the Intel 975 boards that have 3 16x slots. All are 16x electrically, but two share 16 lanes, and one only has 4 lanes.
iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"
Apple fanboys kill the messenger
By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14
APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.
Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."
The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.
But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.
One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.
One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.
More here: http://www.twit.tv/93
because "Hybrids" are the "in thing" currently.
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Since when did slashdot became so blatantly a mouthpiece for corporate advertising, such as this add-campaign for motherboards?
Mind you, I mean *so blatantly*. They used to have a bit more discretion.
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Now, does this card finnally come with a Free Software 3D graphics drivers? I won't use any proprietary closed source drivers to work on graphics for the replacement to proprietary games. That would be allowing the graphics card makers to get away with too much and setting a bad example for the community!
New hardware is king in the builders world. Mobo improvement generates implications for ram, soundcards ... all the stuff that makes real, concrete differences. It's tough for bash-spewing byteboyz to understand that. So best GOTO your keyboard and FORNEXT .....
I've had nothing but bad things happen with every asus m/b I've tried. I'll stick with VIA and buy the nvidia card separately, thanks.
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If anyone likes, they may buy my old P5N-SLI (crap) before I replaced it with an AW9D-MAX. I had the P5N-SLI Faulty twice from newegg, and when I checked with the rep he had over 30 returns for just that month on the motherboard, despite the large amount of internet hype and diety praise to the motherboard. It was utter crap, and I would never buy their product again. AW9D-MAX worked great, only gripe is crossfire (hacked sli drivers), and the lack of expansion slots. but I'd gladly take that over my memory going all funky, and random blue screens very 30 minutes or so. Be very wary.
Are there really that many people using SLI to provide a market for another SLI mb design? Who are these people spending their retirement fund on graphics cards?
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How goods the gas consumption on them now?
I may agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to face the consequences of saying it.
Their refusal to support nForce2 and nForce3 in Vista means I won't be buying anything from them, and I urge you all to consider this fact when shopping: they don't have enough resources to support all their products, which can be seen from delay or lack of drivers, and issues with hardware.
This is not trolling, it is a fact. Compare to intel, VIA, and others supporting way older hardware.