Here come the NF4 Sli x16

running sli in full bandwidth, x16/x16.. woo hoo..

ECS KN2 SLI (1.0):
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Produc...LanID=9&DetailID=572&DetailName=Specification

ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe:
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=729&cid=3

 

can't they run in full bandwidth?.. like to see how it perform in full bandwidth..

 

i've do some reading and it say that it didn't bring any significant improvement for now because currently there is no applications/ games are developed to take advantage of the extra bandwidth.. maybe in the near future we will see the advantages of the extra bandwidth.. IMHO they must not develop something that is useless..

 

quad SLI?.. whats that?..

 

Quad SLi : http://forums.rojakpot.com/showthread.php?t=19168

i just found out something about my Asus A8N-SLi mobo.

does that mean what i think it means? utilizing one PCi-E will let it run at x16 but SLi two cards will drag it down to x8 speed? eventhough both slot support x16 speed?

also, the 7800GTX graphic cards are 24bit right? does that mean this mobo can't support it?

source : http://my.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=382&l1=3&l2=15&l3=0

 

your chipset only support 20 lane bandwidth.. Nforce 4 SLI x16 can support up to 38 lane for AMD and 40 lane for Intel..
here is the info:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html

 

sorry for the bit there, got carried away. so 24 pixel pipeline nothing to do with the PCi-E x16 slot ya? and to run at x16 speed will need new mobo's? mine only x8?

 

u can run ur pcie at 4x mode and yet suffering no significant drops in performance.

Even if your board is not powered by an sli chipset, you can still configure an SLI setup by using the primary 16x slot and the next available pcie slot (4x or 2x, up to the board design) with one condition: install the old v70.90 driver. the performance you get under 16x/2x is nearly identical/a tad slower to the 8x/8x mode and in some cases, faster. the latter is a proof that even at 2x, the card hasn't actually saturated the available bandwidth and is in fact more than enough to configure an sli machine. it also tells us that we do not need 16x to run a single PCIe card. 2x-4x is more than sufficient. Of cuz the guys at NV are smart and wont allow you to do that.

8x/8x or 16x/16x is a specification the manufacturers used to brainwash us into believing that we need them in our gaming application (and charged us a premium price).

 

so x16 is an excessive bandwidth? .. and yet currently there are no application that benefit from this, is that what you mean? ..

 

so the 7800GTX 24 pixel pipeline cards is too much for current mobo's to handle? i don't think there's any mobo's which support 24 yet?

ZuePhok so smart wan.. but in person look like guai kia...

 

emm.. now i understand that x16 pcie has so much bandwidth that even the latest games cannot choke it.. and aKho, the more pixel pipeline one card have the better the graphic card.. mine only have 4 pipeline .. now playing latest games at 800x600 with FSAA..

so why dont they built an AGP 7800 GTX?.. i'm so curious.. AGP user are still quite a number..

 

so mobo with PCi-E slot x16 means...? supports bandwidth up to 4GB/s? and the 24 pixel pipeline do wat le? processing speed for the graphic card?

 

24 pixel pipeline can process more pixel thus that is why high end graphic card can play game at higher resolution easily.. let say my card have 4 pipeline and GPU @ 500Mhz vs 24 pipeline and GPU @ 500Mhz, of course the latter can go for higher resolution without any problem because it can process more pixel although they have the same GPU speed.. so more pipeline is good.. bit also playing a role here.. 256bit is better than 128bit..