NV SLi Soon?

[coz]

Some interesting pieces of information have appeared today to suggest that we may not be waiting months for SLi kit to appear - it may be just a few weeks. At the very least we're close to official launch and hopefully some more benchmarks to show what it's capable of.

A chick (Ewle Ebonlore) on the NVNews forum has just got hold of a couple of 6800U PCIe cards from gameve.com......

Click me pimp-daddy

Asked about availability of the SLi connector she responsed........

I talked to EVGA about the connector (It doesn't come with it by default)

They will be available in 2 weeks and they wi'll ship it to me for free.

asked how long we'll have to wait for nForce4 she said............

Actually the buzz I am hearing for SLI Nforce 4 is 2-3 weeks out.

SLI boards are already in the hands of reviewers.

They did have a problem with the A01 silicon and the 1000 Mhz transport bus. A02 silicon corrects that. Not sure why they delayed the Nforce 4 SLI to a few weeks after the single PCI express versions.

But VIA and SIS have a SLI chipsets ready to go too! It's going to be an interesting next 2-3 weeks with the mainstream lauch of retail PCI express MB's and video cards!

She seems pretty knowledgeable so there's no reason to doubt what she says but also no reason to take it as Gospel truth either.

Another SLi-capable motherboard chipset looks to be well on the way also. This time from VIA (urgh) - the K8T890 Pro offers dual-gfx slots for PCIe cards and doesn't look a million miles off either. Check out the info here.

Over at the Inq, that utter asshat Fuad claims nForce4 Ultra board availability in November with SLi mobos 'a bit later'. So, SLi availability is anyones guess but I'm thinking official launch maybe around the end of the month and availability maybe a month later? That's just my wild-assed guess so don't believe everything you read on the forums - especially when it's written by the Coz.

 

[Moloch]

Via isn't all that bad these days
Just nvidia is better, it's not like in the old K6-2 days or something where you would avoid them at all cost.

 

[inotocracy]

Via isn't all that bad these days
Just nvidia is better, it's not like in the old K6-2 days or something where you would avoid them at all cost.

Ahhh, those were the days

 

[coz]

Via isn't all that bad these days

Last time I used VIA was back in the Thunderbird days, it was so bad it put me off AMD platforms for years.

 

[Moloch]

Your experience is not of mine.
I had a via 133 mobo and it rocked
750@950(couldnt get it to 1ghz for the life of me).
later I got a 1ghz and ran it at 1.3ghz

 

[Peter Piper]

Your experience is not of mine.
I had a via 133 mobo and it rocked
750@950(couldnt get it to 1ghz for the life of me).
later I got a 1ghz and ran it at 1.3ghz

Was it an ASUS A7V133, if so i still have both version (one with and one without RAID), still have them running to this day, with no probs

 

[tranCendenZ]

VIA is also what scared me away from AMD, their mobos I have used in the past have either A) broken or B) not worked properly requiring constant driver updates, or C) Both.

 

[doh-nut]

wonder how much $ these dual pci-e m/bs are going to be

 

[coz]

wonder how much $ these dual pci-e m/bs are going to be

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19130

WE ARE GETTING Nforce 4 information steadily but surely in small dollops and now the pricing of these boards has started to emerge.
There will be three versions of the boards. The top notch one with two PCIe graphics slots will cost less then $200. That's always $199. Boards are expected before Yule.

The Nforce 4 Ultra will sit in a range from $100 to $150 and will be made different by adding or subtracting features. Less money naturally means less features.

Lastly, but not the leastly, the Nforce 4 will come for as little as $55 to a still acceptable $80.

We expect to see Nforce 4 Ultra and Nforce 4 in reality sometime in November, and we expect that you will actually be able to buy one or more in November as well.

I'll wait for the prices we see when the product actually goes on sale but less than $200 seems pretty decent to me. Now you know what to ask for as a Christmas present!!

 

[Elias]

And I was very surprised to read that SLI will be available for socket 754 too.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19131

Although it doesn't make much sense to buy 2 PCIe vid cards and another motherboard if you're already running an A64 on the 754. Propably wiser just to spend a couple hundred more dollars and get a 939 mobo and CPU...