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| Thread ID: 89294 | 2008-04-26 11:20:00 | This makes no sense to me... | Thebananamonkey (7741) | PC World Chat |
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| 662859 | 2008-04-26 11:20:00 | I've been looking for Motherboards for my first gaming rig recently, and I've come across something weird. AMD owns ATI, and I'm looking for a MoBo that will support SLi, at a resonable price. I can find heaps of AMD ones, which is ok. Looking at Intel MoBo's I can only find crossfire. So Intel's endorsing AMD's Graphics wing, while AMD decides it's going to embrace NVidias new baby. Is this like wife-swapping for hardware companys? |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 662860 | 2008-04-26 11:29:00 | The only LGA775 mobos that supports SLi you can find are ones with Nvidia chipstes (650i, 680 etc). Intel chipsets = crossfire, AMD chipsets = SLi, Nvidia chipsets = SLi. Think of it this way: if Nvidia gives Intel the license to support SLi in its chipsets, then it's kapoof for Nvidia's chipset business. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 662861 | 2008-04-26 11:39:00 | It seems like it's kapoof for their SLi business then. Intel is the mainstream CPU provider atm, and almost nobody will be able to afford an nVidia chipset, because they sit around $400. And doesn't it seem weird that AMD support nVidia so much, when it loses them revenue directly. And Intel support crossfire, which gives AMD revenue directly... Doesn't this seem weird to anyone else? But while we're on topic, does anyone know if there's a ~$200 LGA775 MoBo that supports SLi |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 662862 | 2008-04-26 12:11:00 | Wait, correction: AMD doesn't do SLi. Doh, what was I thinking??? And as for ~$200 mobos with SLi: www.pricespy.co.nz |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 662863 | 2008-04-27 01:50:00 | Any good for OC you think? I can't find any good reviews... sigh. I know AMD doesn't do SLi, but I can only find boards with SLi (exempting the above) for AMD sockets, not Intel ones. But it seems weird, broken record I know. Oh, and it says it natively supports DDR2-800. Does this mean I can't use higher speeds? Or can I OC that so it will work with 1033 DDR2? I'm thinking of something like this (www.ascent.co.nz) |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 662864 | 2008-04-27 09:46:00 | Only SLI? are you sure you don't mean crossfire? what socket are you talking about? The new nForce 700a series chipset for AMD Socket AM2+ aren't out yet. That's why all that's there currently is the ATi ones There are no AM2+ nForce boards yet (at least not true AM2+ with HT3.0) only the AM2 boards that have been upgraded with BIOS update to support AM2+ processors. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 662865 | 2008-04-27 10:52:00 | What I mean is, I can't find any reasonably priced SLi's exempting the one above (which I probably don't want anyway) that aren't AMD sockets. I had it explained that it was because Intel don't want to pay for an SLi license, and they shouldn't have to either, IMO if nVidia want to sell 2+ cards to individual consumers they shouldn't be charging people for that service... They should be spreading it like wildfire. |
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