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they arent made by intel, are they?cell_491 said:actually that is not entirely true there are several intel cpu boards that SLI works on (not designed for but they work) however these boards are incredibly expensive because they a socket 604 xeon boards with dual pci-e slots if you can afford a xeon then go ahead...first i would send a pm to kyle_bennet about it because he will probably know alot more about it (i remember a review he did that they used sli on a xeon board)
what? intel makes a plethora of thingscell_491 said:thats right i forgot intel only makes p4's....
of course i have, but then it would seem that you were poking fun at yourself, which didnt make a whole lotta sence to mehcell_491 said:ever heard of sarcasm it is usually followed by these
how? it doesnt even have two x16 slots. furthermore, the chipset has to support SLI, something which no intel sets currently do.Im pretty sure this one could do it.
Intel Xeon Server Board
if someone was an intel !!!!!! the may not care wether or not its a p4 as long as its an intel so titling it "are there any pentium4 motherboards that support SLI?" wouldnt cover his real question...see what i meanlithium726 said:i sure do think thats what he meant, otherwise the question would have been phrased "are there any pentium4 motherboards that support SLI?" not "does intel make SLI boards?"
i think he wants an intel branded SLI board.
not at all. there are no xeon or p-m boards made by intel that support SLI either.cell_491 said:if someone was an intel !!!!!! the may not care wether or not its a p4 as long as its an intel so titling it "are there any pentium4 motherboards that support SLI?" wouldnt cover his real question...see what i mean
prepare to get p3wned....how? it doesnt even have two x16 slots. furthermore, the chipset has to support SLI, something which no intel sets currently do.
i dont feel "p3wned" at all. the intel spec sheet clearly states "1 x16 slot and 1 x4 slot)cell_491 said:prepare to get p3wned....
http://www.aechelon.com/media/press_releases/nvidia_idf_9_7_04.html
linkage? newegg search for an intel board with 2 x16 slots turned up nothingfreecableguy said:The answer to the original question is YES. And yes, you can buy it right now.
to do that you need to take a dremel to the slot. we dont know if hte OP wants to do that or not, do we? i would assume, since he wants an intel board, he wnats something rock solid stable that he can plug and and have it work. nowhere on teh alienware site does it say that they use an intel board, at least i didnt see that. all i saw was a reference to the chipset. that still doesnt take away the fact that you have to BUY the alienware to get the board.cell_491 said:the alienware uses an intel reference board and you dont need dual 16x to run sli it will work with a 16x and 4x (do you think nf4 sli uses two 16x slots NO it runs them it 8x mode) not the small 4x the normal size 4x by the way
lithium726 said:to do that you need to take a dremel to the slot. we dont know if hte OP wants to do that or not, do we? i would assume, since he wants an intel board, he wnats something rock solid stable that he can plug and and have it work. nowhere on teh alienware site does it say that they use an intel board, at least i didnt see that. all i saw was a reference to the chipset. that still doesnt take away the fact that you have to BUY the alienware to get the board.
and yes, the nf4 sli does use dual x16 slots. it just gives them both the bandwidth of an 8x slot.
Ok to settle this once and for all..
rather, someone who agrees with youcell_491 said:THANK YOU...someone who actually knows what they are talking about
please, link me to one! and the i915 board is used with a workaround, the i915 does not nativly support it. my point still stands.dude alot of the xeon boards are sli capable ive seen them all over the place and now there is a 915p board that is sli capable...
lithium726 said:really, cuase i see one x16 and x4
http://www.de.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20041126/images/intel_board_big.jpg
i know it doenst use the bandwidth, but it does need a physical slot to fit. (for those that missed it, he edited his post. he claimed the board he linked had two x16 slots..)
edit: the gigabyte board isnt an intel board. also, you cant buy it yet. in addition to that, the i915 doesnt nativly support SLI, they had to pullsome crazy workaround, and gernally, gigabyte boards suck.
there are currently no boards that natively support SLI (ther might be but i havent seen one) but there are boards that sli happens to work on...dont know why it works but it just does.please, link me to one! and the i915 board is used with a workaround, the i915 does not nativly support it. my point still stands
there wont be any for a while. none of the intel DESKTOP chipsets support SLI, and i doubt intel is going to start making boards based on nf4 SLI.I'm sorry if my original question was subject to interpretation. What I wanted to know was whether Intel makes boards (Intel-branded) that are SLI capable (i.e. with dual x16 PCI-e slots).