The Inq. reporting XFX & EVGA have defected from Nvidia...

[taltamir]

true, Intel charges way WAY more for much smaller increases.

 

[solofly]

Originally posted by: Leon

. I dare you to say that about GPU's if you had a monitor of a resolution of 1920x1200/1080 or higher.

Let me rephrase this for you, since you didn't get it the first time.

Intel charges 5x price (Q9770) for 30% performance increase (over Q6600)
Nvidia charges 2.5x price ($419 GTX 280) for 80% performance increase over 4850/9800GTX

And yes, even triple SLI is cheaper, and we are talking 200% + performance increases there.

Leon

And you don't get me. You don't need a Q9770 to enjoy your games to the fullest. Got it now!?

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: Leon

Once Intel steps in this might change and most likely will (money talks people) and the greedy nvidia will be placed where it belongs, down under...

Intel never overpriced their high end products, no sir!

Leon

Damn, they're so cheap that I could buy a dozen and pour them on my cereal, and eat them!!

 

[tcsenter]

NVIDIA press release over a week ago:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1216019719164.html

"New SLI motherboards will feature the NVIDIA nForce® 200 SLI processor, Intel Bloomfield CPUs, and Tylersburg (X58) chipsets."

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
NVIDIA press release over a week ago:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1216019719164.html

"New SLI motherboards will feature the NVIDIA nForce® 200 SLI processor, Intel Bloomfield CPUs, and Tylersburg (X58) chipsets."

You know I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, that 200 SLI processor does something. It is completely unreasonable of NV to force its implementation on an intel chipset unless it performs some kind of useful function. I'm wondering if it could enhance SLI performance somehow, and perhaps even allow a shared memory pool.

Why can't anyone make a shared memory pool? AFAIK even the old 3DFX Voodoo2's didn't share their memory.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: tcsenter
NVIDIA press release over a week ago:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1216019719164.html

"New SLI motherboards will feature the NVIDIA nForce® 200 SLI processor, Intel Bloomfield CPUs, and Tylersburg (X58) chipsets."

You know I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, that 200 SLI processor does something. It is completely unreasonable of NV to force its implementation on an intel chipset unless it performs some kind of useful function. I'm wondering if it could enhance SLI performance somehow, and perhaps even allow a shared memory pool.

Why can't anyone make a shared memory pool? AFAIK even the old 3DFX Voodoo2's didn't share their memory.

It does do some optimizations with regard to data transfer. There's a good explanation somewhere, although I can't find it at the moment.