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NForce 4 motherboards

This is such crap! I wanted to get Nforce4 in my new computer for christmas but thanks to taiwan it's not gonna happen. Stupid world of hardware makers.
 
Thats tha bisic fetures, there are other stuf as well.

Tho especialy the asus board, and little less especialy the MSI and GigaByte should be in b4 xmas!

Some stores already have the prices on them
 
Actually, my bet's on gigabyte. They had ultra boards ready for review like a month ago, and had their SLI board sent to reviewers just a day after Asus did. I feel their boards will actually be available within the first 2 weeks of december, but who knows. I personally don't think the companies will want to miss the holiday season, but i guess if they can't do anything about it, then that's what will happen. However, if it does happen, prices will have to be reasonable, since demand will likely be lower after people have broken down and bought PCs for the holidays. Also, I'm expecting nice discounts on stuff like CPUs, memory, and hard drives after christmas, so I guess that's good, at least.
 
I really want one before Christmas, but I'll wait until January for lower prices. Has anyone noticed a trend for before and after Christmas hardware prices? At least for finished goods like Dells, the prices are actually better before Christmas to get people to buy and probably to have strong season revenue reports.
 
my head is about to explode as i wait for this garbage. i dont even want an sli version; i just want an amd 64 pcie board and it's ridiculous that it has taken this long to get one out
 
Yeah I'm in the same boat. Went to order my stuff before Thanksgiving so I could put it together during the long weekend... then read about nforce4 and decided I couldn't possibly buy an nforce3 at this point. So I wait. At least I'll have a bunch of good games to play once I've got my new system going. Looking forward to Doom 3, Half Life 2, and Rome Total War.
 
This has been the year of paper launches.

My constraint is that I'm moving to another country in late January, where getting these kinds of components, especially at a reasonable price, will be nigh impossible.
 
Originally posted by: najames
Aye mates, are these the items your looking for? Jaws music please.....

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI nForce4 SLI Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 Our Price: $209.00
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=241159

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra Athlon 64 Skt939 Our Price: $189.00
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=241158

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce 4 SLI Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 Our Price: $225.00
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=240418
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Yay, now to wait for them to be released and hopefully instantly drop $30 like the Neo 2 did. 🙂

 
Too bad we can't preorder.....Grrrrr. Oh, well, I guess it gives me time to wait for the dark horse, gigabyte. I get the feeling we're gonna wake up one morning, and find some gigabyte boards available right away, since they seem so intent on sticking it to Asus and MSI this time around. Also, I haven't seen the gigabyte and asus head to head, but the reviews I've seen of the Asus board merely keep up with the reference board, while the gigabyte benchmarks are about 5% faster than reference.
 
Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
This has been the year of paper launches.
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No kidding. PCIe (and SLI) for Athlon 64 are LONG overdue.

January 31 - Anandtech looks at Via's roadmap that shows K8T890 PCI Express available in Q2'04
February 6 - Anandtech looks as SiS's roadmap that shows 756 PCI Express available in May '04
June 28 - nVidia "Launches Revolutionary New Multi-GPU Technology" using PCI Express
August 20 - Anandtech prints details on CK8-04
October 15 - Abit "unleashes the AX8" (K8T890)
October 16 - nForce4 Ultra Chipset reviews
November 11 - Asus announces A8N-SLI as "available soon"
November 17 - Asus announces availability "for editorial and system builder integration"
November 23 - Reviews of nVidia SLI with Asus motherboards start appearing

In particular, I found one comment in the Anandtech SLI review on November 23 particularly interesting.

"Our sample was one of 10 in the world and fortunately not a mass production sample."

Now, I think all of us are news-starved and ate up every last bit of info published about Athlon 64 and PCI Express. Let's be honest. If we were told absolutely nothing, we'd complain about the lack of information. However, I think that it's distasteful that whenever information has been released, it seems to imply that PCI Express for A64 is "just around the corner".

The manufacturers have only hurt themselves. I have continually put off a PC upgrade through the year because PCI Express was always "just around the corner". If I had've known in the spring that PCI Express wasn't really going to show up until Christmas (if we're lucky), I would've purchased an AGP-based Athlon 64 system to replace my Athlon XP! I normally upgrade fairly frequently (every 6 to 8 months), but it will probably be 14 months by the time I actually make the next upgrade.
 
I think the problem is that VIA stated a very early availability, thinking it could beat the other guys to market with its K8T890. It then hit problems with its new VT8251 southbridge which was originally part of the K8T890 spec, and half of the product feature maps even feature it, even though they have now changed to use the VT8237 instead. Then, back in september, they announced the part, and immediately Abit put its AX8 on the board. Problems ensued, and as you can see, the parts still don't exist. Whether VIA thought it could make the deadline and had problems, or it just lied to gain mindshare from those who still thought it would be first to market, is unclear, but either way, they dropped the ball. However, all the other companies felt like they had to poise like they were ready to go, even if they were not, either. So basically, each company has had to spend most of this year pretending their chipsets were working and almost ready, when in fact none of them were, just so they wouldn't lose most of their sales, should a competitor release their solution first. It was basically a giant bluff, with the loser being all of us.

Anyways, I think the worst is finally behind us. Several mobo manufacturers all say that nForce4 Ultra and SLI boards will be out shortly, and for the most part, I believe them. Many manufacturers are taking preorders, and most even have ETAs in mid december. Of all the mobo makers, I hold the most faith in gigabyte, currently. They have shown that they can get boards out to lots of reviewers, and those boards perform better than any other boards I've seen, so I smell an upset of Gigabyte over Asus in this round of the mobo wars.
 
Originally posted by: carlivar
Yeah I'm in the same boat. Went to order my stuff before Thanksgiving so I could put it together during the long weekend... then read about nforce4 and decided I couldn't possibly buy an nforce3 at this point. So I wait. At least I'll have a bunch of good games to play once I've got my new system going. Looking forward to Doom 3, Half Life 2, and Rome Total War.
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I play Rome Total War on my Soyo Dragon Plus with 256M and a TI4600 board. Runs good enough, but I can't wait to see it on an NF4 SLI, either two 6600GTs or one 6800GT, and 1GB RAM.
 
Dont i feel like the biggest a-hole. I just recieved via Fedx 2 Plextor 716 SA DVD-RW+- sata optical drives, 2 -74 gig 10,000 rpm raptor sata hdd's, 2-XFX 6800-gt pci-e boards, an AMD-FX55 clawhammer, 2 #'s matching-twin pks-512x2 = 2gigs Corsair Xtreme registered and a Sony premier pro 23"monitor 1920x1200 native, all in preperation for Gigabyte sli board. so needless to say i'm getting very impatient!!!
 
ive got just the case and the cpu cooler so far but still even im getting alil impatient. if i were you id prolly be staring at the site of my online shop hitting the update button every 30 secs.
 
Originally posted by: Roomraider
Dont i feel like the biggest a-hole. I just recieved via Fedx 2 Plextor 716 SA DVD-RW+- sata optical drives, 2 -74 gig 10,000 rpm raptor sata hdd's, 2-XFX 6800-gt pci-e boards, an AMD-FX55 clawhammer, 2 #'s matching-twin pks-512x2 = 2gigs Corsair Xtreme registered and a Sony premier pro 23"monitor 1920x1200 native, all in preperation for Gigabyte sli board. so needless to say i'm getting very impatient!!!
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wow, I have a setup waiting half that good and I thought I was impatient....
 
anybody have any idea if the Zalman 7700 or the Thermalright XP-120 will fit in these new mobos? Given the overclocking nature of the boards, I hope they left room for these heatsinks. As soon as I find out for sure, I'll probably go ahead and buy basic stuff like my heatsink, power supply, etc.
 
Originally posted by: Roomraider
Dont i feel like the biggest a-hole. I just recieved via Fedx 2 Plextor 716 SA DVD-RW+- sata optical drives, 2 -74 gig 10,000 rpm raptor sata hdd's, 2-XFX 6800-gt pci-e boards, an AMD-FX55 clawhammer, 2 #'s matching-twin pks-512x2 = 2gigs Corsair Xtreme registered and a Sony premier pro 23"monitor 1920x1200 native, all in preperation for Gigabyte sli board. so needless to say i'm getting very impatient!!!
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I feel your pain! I have everything for my new system in hand except for a PCI-e mobo $2200 worth
 
yeah I think there are lots of us waiting with our stuff, I wish they would just get a board into our hands, because I'm sure they are just fixing last minute bios stuff, and I am fine with updating mine as they come out, I just want something to play with....
 
I talked to some NVIdia guys on a exhibit in Amsterdam a few months ago, they had a custom built system with SLI there - but it wasn't a consumer exhibit, more content-creation, -management and -delivery.
So lots of microwave dishes, radio technology, fiber optics, some yummy promo girls (but far from enough) - and almost no interest for the SLI setup (but for some guys that came from the Apple stand, yuk

So I had a chat with those guys, they demonstrated UT2k4 on the machine (wasnt standard, they gamed on it at night) - what I wondered about, was why SLI was available back then (was maybe in march), and the boards are coming out just now for AMD...
 
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