What do you guys think about the nForce4 SLI chipset and mobos right now?

[The Sauce]

Are these mature enough yet? Worth the money? Which mobo is the ideal 939 solution now with PCI-e.

 

[ts3433]

One thread
Another thread
Yet another thread

These should give you an idea of the general consensus (or lack thereof) between members of this forum.

 

[The Sauce]

Yes, those ARE three threads. None of them have anything to do with my question. I don't care about the pro's and con's of running SLI now, I was asking about the maturity of the mobos.

 

[biostud]

maybe a month more on oak casks will ripe them mature.

 

[fkloster]

Hey Snatch... not nearly mature enough yet.... and wildly overpriced w/every noob on the planet jumping on the SLI bandwagon.....back away for now.

 

[BentValve]

Wait until April or so if you have to go SLI, but better yet wait unit July or August to get a better picture of where SLI is and what is around the corner.

 

[coejus]

Too expensive right now.

 

[jterrell]

I'd advise getting the Chaintech VNF4 if it ever comes back in stock at newegg. Its priced right and offers great bang for your buck.

The chipset is mature in that it is simply nforce3 ultra with pci-express.

A lot of the Asus A8N-sli boards are out and working well but they are very expensive. Not a value-oriented solution.

 

[BentValve]

BTW anyone who has SLI now is not asking these questions because they know they are the guinea pigs...if your buying now then just buy and go from there.

If I had the cash to blow on an SLI set-up id be waiting for MSI offering and id go dual Ultras and nothing less.


Id go SLI just because its a neat thing to do and id imagine id stay busy keeping everything singing in harmony and judging on the Furturemark benches I have seen so far there is a huge performance curve on the same boards.

But fVck if I did't just send in my eVGA 6800 GT to be upgraded to an Ultra via the step-up program...hence my step-ups are complete and my Ultra is an AGP no less.

So I will likely be stuck right here for awhile...life just isn't fair , is it? 😀 😉

 

[imported_Beavis]

Originally posted by: Snatchface
Are these mature enough yet? Worth the money? Which mobo is the ideal 939 solution now with PCI-e.

Not Yet, wait a few months or a at least year then they'll be worth the money, PCI-E is very new technology and let it mature some and for better PCI-E graphics crads that get on the market.

 

[imported_NoGodForMe]

Agree with the above. Overpriced, and hard to find.
And what gets me is many are asking about buying one, and then wanting to put in a 3000+ or something similar. Who is going to pay $269 for a MB, then put a $200 chip in it? C'mon people, it doesn't work like that.

 

[Baked]

Over rated and over priced.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: biostud
maybe a month more on oak casks will ripe them mature.

🙂

I'm thinking about 6 months..like to see DFI's board, maybe get second or third rev of asus/dfi board... at least MSRP, hopefully lower, on PCIe cards...

 

[Regs]

I can't imagine a revision of the NF4 will offer any better performance. They are just expensive as hell. If anything - the nVidia SLI drivers likely have room to mature.

 

[Dug]

I think the hardware is fine, its the bios that needs help.