K8T890 Expected in 2 weeks

[Mrvile]

The Inquirer reports.



Now before everyone tells me that teh NF4 pwnxxorz joo VIA n00b, I wanna get it straight that I know the NF4 will be better. However, I am getting my comp this xmas season, and I plan to use Radeon cards (meaning only one card, no SLI), the difference between the VIA and the NF are close to none for me. Right now I'm leaning toward VIA only because the chipset has been out almost two months longer than the NF4 has, so this mobo will be less buggy.

No flames, I just wanna let VIA fans know that their board is on the way!

 

[flexy]

i dont think that there will be major performance differences....memory control is all on the A64....and both boards will have 1 gig HT...so i cans ee both being very close performance wise...the questionr eally would be whether SOME of these baords have more bugs than others...

 

[Tab]

WHILE ABIT'S K8T890 board is almost ready, we have learned that it might take two more weeks until they ship to reviewers and a little bit later to customers.

Looks like I am a Nforce 4 customer.

 

[Mrvile]

Bah a little bit later = one week

 

[arswihart]

i don't care for sli, but the hardware firewall will be missed

seeing that the asus a8v rev. 2 is the best skt939 board now, and it basically does everything i want, and has given people very little prob's compared to nforce3's, and considering that the nforce4's and k8t890 are basically very similar to their preceding products, i think anyone who doesn't care about multi-gpu tech should at least consider these via boards

one thing i really like about the via boards will be when they get the new vt8251 southbridge with hi-def audio, something no other chipset will have (i'm talking about the k9t890 pro, which will also offer multi-gpu tech. although i wouldn't count on it working correctly), also that new south bridge adds command queuing support on 4 sata ports

 

[Mrvile]

K9T890?? Haven't heard of that one yet, but a non-nVidia motherboard offering multi-GPU is weird. Multi-GPU or SLI isn't very appealing to me (now considering the prices of PCIe 6800GTs), so like I said, the VIA and the NF are very close. Also, I'm not too big on sound, so onboard sound will work best for me (instead of getting a seperate sound card).

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: Tabb

WHILE ABIT'S K8T890 board is almost ready, we have learned that it might take two more weeks until they ship to reviewers and a little bit later to customers.

Looks like I am a Nforce 4 customer.

You are being optimistic if you think NF4 will be available in 3 weeks

 

[arswihart]

i meant k8t890 of course, and multi-gpu on a non-nvidia mobo isn't weird, thats a poor choice of words

its more unofficial and not guaranteed than anything else, it may end up being easy for via to replicate whatever nvidia does, or maybe not, we'll have to wait and see, btw, multi-gpu tech will be present on ati's mobo's too, just so you know, how can it be weird if future AMD mobo's from all manufacturers support multi-gpu tech?

onboard sound is so much more convenient than having an add-on card, and it will suffice for me as well, but i'd rather have hi-def audio than old ac-97 technology onboard

 

[Mrvile]

But what will VIA use to support multi-GPU? Obviously not nVidia's SLI, and ATI's isn't due till late next year...and the K8T890 is due in two weeks.

 

[Thermalrock]

im sure nvidia gave via all the info they need to get the 2 gpu thing working. im sure they prefer a guy buying a via board and two nvidia cards to a guy buying a via board and one geforce or in the worst case an ati.

 

[Mrvile]

Oh yeah, I didn't think about that.