View Full Version : Look! An nForce4 board!
therealwesty
10-12-04, 08:19 AM
The Inquirer published a photo of an nForce4 motherboard! (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19026)
They finally moved the SATA ports away from the graphics card slot :D Nice find dude. BTW what's the VIA chip for? At first I thought it was sound but NF4 is supposed to have SoundStorm2, unless its just a software SPU...
Avid6eek
10-12-04, 11:36 AM
Wow....it looks like every other nForce board I've ever scene ;) The first thing I noticed were the 8 SATA connectors. That's awsome. I quite often find myself limited by the number of SATA connectors.
So... there's a pic... I want a link with a "add this item to cart" button. :p
Devils00Champs
10-12-04, 12:24 PM
This is only the basic version of the NF4 board as it only has one 16x PCI-E port. Im waiting for the SLI version of the board to surface
Rudegar
10-12-04, 12:55 PM
too many pci slots imho
2 would be enough for me
and would be nice if they took the PATA ports off the board and put them on a raiser
and of cause i would like to have 2 pci-express 16X slots
and no via chips
and support for 2 cpus both of them being dualcore :P
Avid6eek
10-12-04, 01:26 PM
too many pci slots imho
2 would be enough for me
and would be nice if they took the PATA ports off the board and put them on a raiser
and of cause i would like to have 2 pci-express 16X slots
and no via chips
and support for 2 cpus both of them being dualcore :P Hmmm...that's quite a list of requests you've got here :)
Rudegar
10-12-04, 01:30 PM
yeah anybody up for hijacking a couple of nukes and hold the world for ransom untill my demands are met ? :P
ElrichMeister
10-12-04, 10:32 PM
i wish it had 2 16x PCIe, and 1 AGP, so i can have more life out of my 6800GT
therealwesty
10-12-04, 11:46 PM
I think I am with ElrichMeister. As much as I want PCIe I don't want to have to fork out for a motherboard, CPU and videocard all at the same time. Even if someone were to grab a Socket-939 board and CPU right now you'd still need to get at least the board and videocard when you wanted PCI-Express... let alone DDR2. Sheesh upgrading is hard right now.
Avid6eek
10-13-04, 12:21 AM
It's definetly a good time to use the hardware you have right now, and just ride the next few months out. SLI will be here before you know it. I'm also interested to see if the nVidia/ATI GPU updates coming in December offer any performance benifit.
i upgrade about every 1.5-2 years so i'll hang back hear all the horror stories about misread voltages and other little bugs till the stuff matures then i'll catch up to shiz again. :D if god likes me maybe next time i'll cruise passed him ;)
Avid6eek
10-13-04, 09:56 AM
if god likes me maybe next time i'll cruise passed him ;) I don't mind it when other people have a faster system than me. Over the past year or two I've been putting more money into having multiple systems, instead of one single fast system. Multiple systems allow me to mutlitask, and get things done faster than a single system could.
quit trying to blur the truth with your system diversifying! i will catch up to your fastest system or kill you trying(what think i'd die trying? i got plans buddy:) ). i'll be setting up my old setup for server purposes but am still researching on how to do it properly for what i want.
Avid6eek
10-13-04, 02:11 PM
quit trying to blur the truth with your system diversifying! i will catch up to your fastest system or kill you trying(what think i'd die trying? i got plans buddy:) ). i'll be setting up my old setup for server purposes but am still researching on how to do it properly for what i want.
Bring it!
In 6 months my dual core Opteron/SLI combo will own you :p ;)
can't a man dream without the ridicule of others?:((here's where you feel sorry and offer me your laptop :)) at least i'll pwn you for 6 months. hopefully at least.
thats y I havent upgraded my system. im gonna get me an SLI board, A64 and dual 6600GTs all at once... eventually... I gotta start thinking about how Im paying for college now too...
Avid6eek
10-14-04, 01:12 PM
can't a man dream without the ridicule of others?:((here's where you feel sorry and offer me your laptop :)) at least i'll pwn you for 6 months. hopefully at least. I love my laptop too much. Not parting with it anytime soon.
I like PCGeeks Plan. I'm waiting for an SLI 6600 GT review. Then I'll make my decsion on either a PCIe 6800 GT, or SLI 6600GTs.
i can't wait that long. i've already been with this setup since about when i joined the forums. almost 2.5 years. i'll be happy with what i have on order for another year or two. that's what overclockings for isn't it?
JoshKorn12
10-14-04, 11:18 PM
Wasn't there something stating that there cannot be 2 16x pci-express slots on the motherboard. So one is 16x and the other one is 8x? I thought I read this when they first introduced SLI.
Avid6eek
10-15-04, 12:25 AM
I think your right. I thought I read that one is x16, and the other x4, or it may be x8. Not positive.
the two slots will share the bus making them both x8 when in SLI mode. if you have only on card in one of the slots(don't know if you have to use one or the other when using a single card) then it'll be x16.
Devils00Champs
10-15-04, 12:50 AM
the two slots will share the bus making them both x8 when in SLI mode. if you have only on card in one of the slots(don't know if you have to use one or the other when using a single card) then it'll be x16.
Samething ive read. Maybe now they've figured out a way to actually utilize the entire bandwith provided by pci-e x16
Avid6eek
10-15-04, 01:27 AM
Samething ive read. Maybe now they've figured out a way to actually utilize the entire bandwith provided by pci-e x16 They don't really need it. Modern graphics cards have everything they need. bandwidth used to be a problem back when video cards did not have their own memory, and had to share system memory.
Rudegar
10-15-04, 04:40 AM
"Wasn't there something stating that there cannot be 2 16x pci-express slots on the motherboard. So one is 16x and the other one is 8x? I thought I read this when they first introduced SLI."
no the text say
"CIe 16X slot and two PCIe 1X slots, four PCI slots where one is possibly 266 MB/s fas"
sure the nforce4 support dual 16X but it not std on all boards
here is a picture of what the different pci-express sizes look like
http://www.commodore.ca/news/images/PCI_Express_Range.GIF
§hinoßi
10-17-04, 08:23 AM
SLI is when they use 2 graphics cards at the same time right??
Shouldnt they just call that "alienwares idea that we ripped off cuz were scumbags"??
Oh yeah, i was wondering, whenever ddr2 comes out, even if u had a 90nm Athlon 64, wouldnt u have to upgrade the CPU cuz they dont support it?? (or if they do they dont take full advantage of it)
They don't really need it. Modern graphics cards have everything they need. bandwidth used to be a problem back when video cards did not have their own memory, and had to share system memory.
uhhhhhhhhhhh ........ since when have video cards not had their own ram? lol .... (other then onboard video lol)
i have had 256K ISA video cards ... and well .. the ram was on them too lol.
Avid6eek
10-17-04, 02:26 PM
uhhhhhhhhhhh ........ since when have video cards not had their own ram? lol .... (other then onboard video lol)
i have had 256K ISA video cards ... and well .. the ram was on them too lol. Very true :p Didn't some old time video cards actually have memory chips you could take off? or add? Those were before my time, so I'm not quite sure.
Rudegar
10-17-04, 07:05 PM
"SLI is when they use 2 graphics cards at the same time right??
Shouldnt they just call that "alienwares idea that we ripped off cuz were scumbags"??"''
first of all then it's not 2 it's X as in if the motherboard have 4 or 8 pci-express 16X slots it should work with 4 or 8 video cards
2th then nvidia bougth the left overs of 3dfx who had 2 video cards in sli back a long time agoe so maybe one could say that it's alienware who are stealing an idea
Very true :p Didn't some old time video cards actually have memory chips you could take off? or add? Those were before my time, so I'm not quite sure.
yeah you could take the chips off and upgrade the cards with larger chips in some cases.
the 256k card i had was about is long as a case itself too :p
2th then nvidia bougth the left overs of 3dfx who had 2 video cards in sli back a long time agoe so maybe one could say that it's alienware who are stealing an idea
Damn u beat me to it. Yeah u can ask Colin, he's the biggest 3DFX fan here lol. They created the dual video cards :)
Avid6eek
10-18-04, 01:19 PM
[QUOTE=Mgkeeper]SLI is when they use 2 graphics cards at the same time right??
Shouldnt they just call that "alienwares idea that we ripped off cuz were scumbags"??[|QUOTE] Actaually, nVidia has been working for over 2 years to bring SLI cards to market. I would tend to believe that the technology Alienware offers is just an early release of nVidia's SLI tech.
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