Worth waiting for nForce4 SLI X16 MCP?

[morkus64]

Well? What do you all think? Any predictions on the performance increases? Any rumors on when we might actually get to BUY a board with this chipset?

in case you haven't heard:

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050808_000100.html

 

[Topweasel]

Kinda cool, Kind of cool, None, Couple of months.

Honestly I don't think it serves and Use. Don't know for sure though. Can Anyone with a Asus SLI Premium run a couple Benchs with a 7800GTX in both 8x and 16x PCI mode. Last time anyone checked was back with the FX 5950s adn such so I do wonder if its possible that has changed but I am guessing it will be 3 or 4 generations before the will use up 8x PCI-e bandwidth. But when that happens the will already be using 32 or even 64x PCIe slots.

 

[R3MF]

the one immediate benefit of this technology right now is that the pricing change will allow some enterprising M/B maker to produce a mATX SLI board.

personally i would wait for the nForce5 in the hope that it has 40 PCI-E lanes and decent audio.

 

[morkus64]

hmm... if someone does the test topweasel suggested, i'd be very interested to see the results...

also, regarding audio, kind of off topic, but when is creative's X-Fi supposed to actually come out in a card?