DFI LanParty Ultra-D

[TekDemon]

Well, I had been planning on getting this board for my upgrade since the SLI boards looked far too expensive, and 16x/2x sounded pretty good to me...

So imagine my surprise when I see the SLI hacking article on the front page...now I want this board even more of course, but the question is:
Won't we still need the SLI bridge? Is this something that DFI will be including with the Ultra-D?

Anyway...hopefully there won't be obscene demand for the Ultra-D that drives it's price up to SLI levels lol.

 

[DfiDude]

I just read that the Dfi Ultra will not be coming with the sli bridge, check this out, u will see all about the dfi stuff http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2337

 

[thanatos355]

you will have to try fabbing a bridge yourself, buying one off of someone with one, or wait and see when some other company will start producing them. dfi will NOT sell you an sli bridge. they were planning on it, but nvidia jerked them up short. greedy bastards, it would have gotten even more of their boards sold.

 

[DfiDude]

thats pretty lame that dfi wont sell an sli bridge, just wow..

 

[deadseasquirrel]

My thought is why not spend the extra money on a full-blown SLI board? Heck, if you're gonna drop the kinda coin you need to drop in order to have 2 video cards running in SLI, why skimp a mere few bucks on the motherboard? I realize availability is a concern, but, still, I would get something I didn't have to mod/tweak/void warranty.

 

[Ackbar]

Originally posted by: DfiDude
I just read that the Dfi Ultra will not be coming with the sli bridge, check this out, u will see all about the dfi stuff http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2337

Damn DFIDude, talk about resurrecting dead threads! LOL! This thread never even had a response back in January!

DSS- TOTALLY agree. I don't know why you'd spend $400-1000 on two video cards to just suddenly decide to save $30-50 and not get the last 10-20% of performance for your money.

 

[DfiDude]

lol yea..I was board hahaha

 

[thanatos355]

Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel
My thought is why not spend the extra money on a full-blown SLI board? Heck, if you're gonna drop the kinda coin you need to drop in order to have 2 video cards running in SLI, why skimp a mere few bucks on the motherboard? I realize availability is a concern, but, still, I would get something I didn't have to mod/tweak/void warranty.

some of us were just impatient and bought a week too early to GET the sli board! >-(