nVidia Ultra/SLI article disappeared of the main page?!?!?!

[rearden]

Did anyone else see this happen? I was on the first page of an AnandTech article that was discussing how to hack teh nForce4 Ultra chipset to make it an nForce4 SLI (the Ultra being thae exact same chipset but with SLI turned off). When I clicked on the link to go to page 2 it redirected me to the search page. When I tried to cut and paste the page 2 link it again redirected me. I went back to the main page and refreshed and the article post was gone!

Did anyone get to read it? Anyone know if it will get posted again?

rearden

 

[Andres3605]

i just saw it, with the DFI board, now the article is gone, i read it, it showed just by getting one soldering point the sli would work loosing just about 10% performance to NF4 SLI, It was intruduced like a bargain.

 

[UlricT]

yeah... i went through it quick. It showed the performance of cards in 16x/2x mode as between 8x/8x SLI and 1 card right?

Why was it pulled???

 

[nitromullet]

hmmm... odd. I saw the article as well... it's gone now...

 

[Andres3605]

NVIDIA'S hand muuuuuauahahhahahaha

 

[nortexoid]

LAME.

 

[Lyfer]

Forgive my ignorance, but whats the point of modding an Nforce 4 ultra to SLI when all ultra boards only feature one 16x PCI-E slot? Isn't the point of SLI to have 2 video cards? Or is the SLI chipset considerably faster than the vanilla ultra?

 

[Andres3605]

you can mod one Ultra to have 2 video cards with little performance hit making it close to the ultra in performance and cheaper.

 

[Jassi]

Originally posted by: Andres3605
you can mod one Ultra to have 2 video cards with little performance hit making it close to the SLI in performance and cheaper.

Fixed 4 u.

 

[Andres3605]

UPS, thanx

 

[MrBuffet]

Go figure -- it was prop. the same crew of monkeys that have been strong-arming the motherboard designers for the last 2 months

A good example of how bad the state of relations is iWill and their dual CPU SLI board called DK8ES. A beast of a board with 16x/2x, Raid and the works, but alas a visit from the nVidia creative-thinker-suspressor-squad, and POP, the board suddenly only have integrated video -- but get this -- the two PCIe slots are still there and all the hardware to run SLI is still on the board.

nVidia is trying to snaek a piece of cheese past us, wake up and smell the Java...

 

[justly]

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Forgive my ignorance, but whats the point of modding an Nforce 4 ultra to SLI when all ultra boards only feature one 16x PCI-E slot? Isn't the point of SLI to have 2 video cards? Or is the SLI chipset considerably faster than the vanilla ultra?

the point was that the ultra and SLI are the same chipset with one exception that could be changed with a pencil or conductive paint. It also mentioned that one manufacturer was using the same board for both chipsets (I think that was the DFI). they also mentioned that the second slot (used for SLI) was an open ended 4x pci-e slot (I think this was used to allow a second video card to be installed). More of these types of motherboards are at least in development (according to the article).

I hope I got all of that right, I'm very tired and dont want to make to many mistakes so I will stop there.

 

[nortexoid]

also, there are dual GPU cards (e.g. Asus' and Gigabyte's dual 6600 cards) that, while they physically fit in a single PCIe slot, require an SLI mobo.

so this hack could get you dual gpu cards in your 4 ultra mobos without having to upgrade to SLI mobos for nothing.

 

[ViRGE]

The article probably wasn't ready. It wouldn't be the first time that Anand accidentally posted something live when he was dumping it in the database.

 

[Lyfer]

Originally posted by: justly

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Forgive my ignorance, but whats the point of modding an Nforce 4 ultra to SLI when all ultra boards only feature one 16x PCI-E slot? Isn't the point of SLI to have 2 video cards? Or is the SLI chipset considerably faster than the vanilla ultra?

the point was that the ultra and SLI are the same chipset with one exception that could be changed with a pencil or conductive paint. It also mentioned that one manufacturer was using the same board for both chipsets (I think that was the DFI). they also mentioned that the second slot (used for SLI) was an open ended 4x pci-e slot (I think this was used to allow a second video card to be installed). More of these types of motherboards are at least in development (according to the article).

I hope I got all of that right, I'm very tired and dont want to make to many mistakes so I will stop there.

INteresting!

 

[xsilver]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
The article probably wasn't ready. It wouldn't be the first time that Anand accidentally posted something live when he was dumping it in the database.

Or maybe nvidia slapped and NDA on it
all the other mobo makers seem to be scared right now -- eg. U make this product and we wont ship anymore chipsets to you :|

 

[CrystalBay]

You 'd think AT would weigh all the consequences before posting the article... Very simple mod anyway..

 

[shinotenshi]

It could just have been DFI also who put the pressure on, the last thing they want is an article 35 CISG claim against them by nvida

 

[Jii]

Or maybe nvidia slapped and NDA on it

That would probably be the case. It looked like a full article to me (I did read it through) and with good instructions on how to modify the chip.

Once again it happened. Once we read about the truth, it is taken away. :frown:
AT did nothing wrong n posting that article. The culprit is Nvidia.

 

[xsilver]

I think a way MSI,DFI, ASUS and others can get around this is to produce a Nforce4 ultra mobo -- with 2pci-e slots and market it only as an Nforce4 ultra -- knowing that the enthusiast community will mod it themselves and hence making it an nforce4 SLI --- what are the price differences anyways -- nforce4 ultra isnt out where I am yet - are we talking 30 US dollars? -- I should think it needs to be around there for anybody to be bothered with the mod

oh and sorry to hijack my own post but is there any news on price drops in nvidia video solutions? I know the PCI-e parts are not going to change price for sure but ATI seem to be making a lot of hooplah about how their new vaporware product is going to be >6800gt and only $299 --

 

[dug777]

glad i read it then

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Jii

Or maybe nvidia slapped and NDA on it

That would probably be the case. It looked like a full article to me (I did read it through) and with good instructions on how to modify the chip.

Once again it happened. Once we read about the truth, it is taken away. :frown:
AT did nothing wrong n posting that article. The culprit is Nvidia.

Oh for the love of Mike, paranoid much? The article is back up.

Originally posted by: Wesley Fink
ALL -
We apologize for the posting confusion with this article. It was scheduled to go live this morning, but was accidentally auto-posted around midnight by our document engine. We immediately pulled it down and posted this morning as originally planned. That is why some of the comments have odd times for a 7:30AM post.

We think you will find the information worth waiting for.

 

[chilled]

It's back again, assuming it was gone before!

 

[xsilver]

damn -- no more consipiracy theories
it was aliens I tell you , aliens -- they looked just like bill gates