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- rsdouglas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@slovenian:
Did you not even read the summary?
"Nvidia ... has designed and is manufacturing complete motherboards for its partners." - mfawcett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Stop saying "loose" when you mean "lose".
- meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3RTFS?
- PopeOfDope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why do they have to put 3 PCIe x16 slots in there? First of all, almost all the newer cards look like they are double wide, which means you already loose 1 PCI slot. That leaves you with just 1 left over. The 3rd slot is meant to be for a PPU right? Aren't the new DX10 cards meant to make PPU cards redundant?
I wish there was more products in the mid-range enthusiast market where you can get great overclockability but you don't go terribly overboard and loose some core functionality like extra PCI slots. - Corneliusm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's for a third nvidia card.
This is not official yet, and I believe that the drivers don't support it yet. But this apparently is the reason why the 8800GTX has 2 SLI connectors on it. This third card will provide either graphics or physics acceleration. Not a real PPU, since nvidia GPUs are definitely not dedicated physics units, but nvidia has been demonstrating GPU-accelerated physics with HavokFX. The 8800 release demo showed some cool physics effects that looked to be on par with Ageia's PhysX board (fluid dynamics, thousands of rigid bodies colliding, etc). - noclips, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Finally! I was not looking forward to purchasing the ASUS P5N32-SLI because it was the only core2/SLI/DDR800 mobo on the market.
- ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I cant wait to build my next pc. Every time I build my rig it gets more exciting and exciting. Combine this with the new Nvidia 8800 (direct-x 10) and you got a beast!
- Yoshi39, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can be used for other things like 10giga(bit or byte not sure)/sec network cards require a PCIe slot
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tri-SLI?
- ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a P5N32 SLI Deluxe - what was there to not look forward too? (seriously). At some point you have to pick your benchmark for the next couple of years, if you are always waiting for the next big thing you will never get anywhere (especially if you insist that it has to be popular first)
- carl0ski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1NVIDIA is really starting to waste a hell of a lot electricity
I hope this 3rd slot is for
1st Slot Geforce 8800GTX SLI Mode
2nd Slot Geforce 8800GTX SLI Mode
3rd Slot Primary Display low end GFX Card
While not using intensive tasks such as games
slot 1 and 2 should shut off completely
Slot 3 is active and renders solitare for you. - t3hl337n3wb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, new motherboards are coming with less and less PCI slots. Soon, there will be no room for sound cards, TV tuners, and wireless adapters unless they all migrate to PCIe.
- cloudkiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2hopefully this is one of nVidia's first steps towards making a line of motherboards themselves.
- Slovenian6474, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3They've been making nForce chipsets for a LONG time now. I don't see them making an entire motherboard though considering they don't even make their video card boards for their GeForce series, just the chips.
- Slovenian6474, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Hmm, man i feel stupid.
- bluephoenix, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2what's with all the video card blogspam recently
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