Conroe and my lonely 7900GTX's

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AuxNuke

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Imagine its July 23rd/24th (or whatever the actual release date is for Conroe) and the egg is chock full of E6600's at a great price. I think, what do I do with my 2 7900 GTX's?!? SHIT there's no nForce 590 boards availible! How do I live?

Am I the only one concerned that the new nForce boards haven't arrived in full force already? Will they sneak them in on the same day as Conroe?

/worried
 
I think you are going to have to wait to get SLI to work on conroe for a few weeks as I have not heard of anywhere puting any of the SLI ones out on the market.
 
i think im gonna put an E6600, 965/975 MB, 2gb DDR2 and x1900XT on my bill me later account when the time comes. :p

not that that helps... but i believe SLI will work just fine with a driver hack.
 
Jason711 said:
but i believe SLI will work just fine with a driver hack.
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Maybe... but I sure as hell would prefer an nForce board to an Intel one :(
 
AuxNuke said:
Maybe... but I sure as hell would prefer an nForce board to an Intel one :(
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Eh?
If you ever had anything to do with Intel CPU's you would know that the best chipset for an Intel CPU is a Intel chipset.

Terra - Period. :D
 
cheap conroe board now and use one card... till the better boards come availible?
 
AuxNuke said:
Maybe... but I sure as hell would prefer an nForce board to an Intel one :(
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nvidia is sure to produce a chipset supporting SLI. though intel chipsets have been known to be quite good.
 
Terra said:
Eh?
If you ever had anything to do with Intel CPU's you would know that the best chipset for an Intel CPU is a Intel chipset.
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I have owned many... and they have been stable and great. But with SLI I much prefer to use an nVidia chipset... as they are the only ones that officially support SLI.
 
I'm looking into getting a Precision 690 with dual 285 quadros and then just replacing them with my 7800GTs to see how SLI does on the new platform. I imagine dual 5150s should be a good starting point for a SLI build. Supposedly the new 690s support SLI...so we'll see.
 
Terra said:
Eh?
If you ever had anything to do with Intel CPU's you would know that the best chipset for an Intel CPU is a Intel chipset.

Terra - Period. :D
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Normally I would agree with you, but testing samples of the 590 SLI Intel Edition chipset are beating the 965 boards in almost all benchmarks.
 
WarLust said:
Normally I would agree with you, but testing samples of the 590 SLI Intel Edition chipset are beating the 965 boards in almost all benchmarks.
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Link?
 
AuxNuke said:
and the egg is chock full of E6600's at a great price.
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Now thats funny. When Presler was released the prices were no where near great on the egg. The XE955 was runnin for around $1350 on there.

Anyways. You can always get a Intel chipset board and make it work with NV cards. If there is a will, there is a way. There is plenty of people that have done it.
 
D4hPr0 said:
Now thats funny. When Presler was released the prices were no where near great on the egg.
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lol. Seeing the vast number of places that already have pre-orders and stock indications, it seems that the supply of these chips is going to be good. Getting your hands on that treasured 6600 is another story :) Work with me here!

Still, I'd love to have a 590 board in my hands before ordering a conroe. I <3 these GTX's and want them to have a place to show their true power :p
 
Benton The Race said:
The date has been moved to July 14th according to the inquirer. Lets hope its true!
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While I don't have much faith in the source, wouldn't that be great?
Anyone know when the NDA is over and sites like [H] and Anand's can start reviewing the boards?
 
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