techreport.com — Nvidia has a new nForce 680i SLI chipset for Intel CPUs, and in an interesting twist, has designed and is manufacturing complete motherboards for its partners. The chipset offers speedy performance, loads of integrated peripherals, and considerable overclocking potential. Stable front-side bus speeds have been observed close to 2000MHz!
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cloudkillerNov 9, 2006
hopefully this is one of nVidia's first steps towards making a line of motherboards themselves.
rsdouglasNov 9, 2006
@slovenian:Did you not even read the summary?"Nvidia ... has designed and is manufacturing complete motherboards for its partners."
meltingrobotNov 9, 2006
RTFS?
corneliusmNov 9, 2006
It'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).
slovenian6474Nov 9, 2006
Hmm, man i feel stupid.
carl0skiNov 10, 2006
NVIDIA is really starting to waste a hell of a lot electricityI hope this 3rd slot is for1st Slot Geforce 8800GTX SLI Mode2nd Slot Geforce 8800GTX SLI Mode3rd Slot Primary Display low end GFX CardWhile not using intensive tasks such as games slot 1 and 2 should shut off completelySlot 3 is active and renders solitare for you.