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NF4 boards

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Here is some pics of some NF4 boards http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44016
post any pics

I would like to know if DFI is going to come out with anymore NF4 boards i bet they will because they have lanparty series, lanparty ut series, infinity series, and genral series.they just wont come out with that DFI nf4 sli only i hope at least.

anyone know any of the dates these boards will be out i heard around december or after a little
 
 
i heard from 150-250 but u never know for sure

i just heard now the asus sli has already been shipped!!

anyone know when the dfi is going to be out
 
Shipped?
Don't think so. Biggest game in town, been there, done that...watch and see...30 days till someone here has it in hand.
 
I think everyone does but its just not worth if you think about it u have to buy 2 cards same cards so it cost alot.technology is growing by the day and u only get 50% performance increase. So you are only using half the card and rendering the other yes its good but its for rich people that can buy 2 cards eveytime a new one comes out, because lets say they made sli for a 5200 and 2 months later a 6800ultra comes out which one do u think is going to be better and than a x800xt comes out and owns the ultra LOL
sorry i just like ati had to make a lil joke. 😛
 
personally, I'm not sure if I'm gonna get an SLI mobo or not. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to it, but I'm not going to go out of my way for it. If the Asus SLI board is the first to market, and doesn't cost over $200, then I might go for it; otherwise, I'll probably get the Gigabyte Ultra board.

SLI isn't necessarily a bad deal if you use it for an upgrade. For example, say you get a 6800GT for $400. Then, whenever the next big (not refresh, but core change) upgrade in graphics occurs, a card in the same range as the 6800GT (say 7800GT or whatever) comes out, and is $400-500 (the next generation will probably run $450 MSRP, if ATI's pricing for its X850 line is any indication, since they are moving price points to $350, $450, and $550 for top end range cards). You could shell out for this card, spending another $450, or you could throw in another 6800GT for $200 or so (like the 9800 Pro is now). This would yield you around a 70-80% increase in performance for much lower cost. In most GPU limited cases, the gain from another card is MUCH higher than 50%, by the way. Anyways, the point is that SLI does present some nice upgrade potential. As a straight out of the box solution, though, you are right, it is not currently a good value for the costs involved, unless you are disgustingly rich. Also, SLI is not exactly going away; ATI has plans to release its own version with the R520 (along with PS3.0, BTW), and will also release a version of their Xpress 200 chipset featuring dual graphics support.

One last thing - I really don't think it's accurate to say that an X800XT "owns" a 6800 Ultra. Being maybe 2% faster does not constitute "ownage" especially when it's lacking in its feature set. "Ownage" is the X700XT and 6600GT's performance relative to a 9800 Pro. Personally, I think it's pretty much a wash between the X800XT and the 6800Ultra, not that I'm too concerned about it, since I'll be looking in the $200 range for my next card.
 
ya i know i just like the ati x800xt and try to make it look better, i am getting nf4 for the chipset and pci-e
 
i dont want SLI, because the next best thing will be ATI's R500 which will kick Nvidia's cards a$$, even SLI. Better a R500 than some lamer SLI solution, my $0.2
 
Originally posted by: flexy
i dont want SLI, because the next best thing will be ATI's R500 which will kick Nvidia's cards a$$, even SLI. Better a R500 than some lamer SLI solution, my $0.2
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Fanboy alert. My $.02. 🙂
 
gigabyte has low memory voltage and asus has 'extremely hot' north/southbridge well the one nf4 chip. damn it this is hard to decide. prolly gonna go asus ultra. the more i think about getting an sli board the less i like the idea im gonna use one video card anyway and i dont wanna go out in a year and buy another old card that will be hard to get rid of later.
 
I really couldn't care less about SLI, at least at the moment, certainly not enough to pony up $250.

All I'm looking for is better overclockability/stability with nForce4/ATI Xpress, and the ability to upgrade the video card w/o swapping the mobo and be able to sell the "old" card at a decent price. AGP cards aren't going to fetch much a year from now.

If ATI comes up with a better alternative to SLI, like being able to use 2 *different* cards in dual formation, then that might be valuable.
 
The problem with using two different cards is that there really is only three ways to do multi card rendering, each renders every other frame, each renders half the screen, and each renders every other line. In any case something will be off if the cards are not the same type. I dont really forsee ATI finding much to do about that.
 
Originally posted by: Kovie
The problem with using two different cards is that there really is only three ways to do multi card rendering, each renders every other frame, each renders half the screen, and each renders every other line. In any case something will be off if the cards are not the same type. I dont really forsee ATI finding much to do about that.
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this statement is utterly incorrect and not how sli works. read the at article about it... its either each does a frame or each does a part of one frame split into two pieces that are approximated to be the same ammount of rendering work. to determine this the sli driver uses a history of the past few frames. the driver 'assumes' the cards are identical. but its very possible that one will get to render 70% of the screen and the other 30% of the screen when those 30% of the screen are 50% of the work that has to be done to render that frame.
 
Originally posted by: Thermalrock
Originally posted by: Kovie
The problem with using two different cards is that there really is only three ways to do multi card rendering, each renders every other frame, each renders half the screen, and each renders every other line. In any case something will be off if the cards are not the same type. I dont really forsee ATI finding much to do about that.
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this statement is utterly incorrect and not how sli works. read the at article about it... its either each does a frame or each does a part of one frame split into two pieces that are approximated to be the same ammount of rendering work. to determine this the sli driver uses a history of the past few frames. the driver 'assumes' the cards are identical. but its very possible that one will get to render 70% of the screen and the other 30% of the screen when those 30% of the screen are 50% of the work that has to be done to render that frame.
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Rofl, Pwned 😀
 
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