[Solved] Fans of NF200

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 537-4.html

This should make some P55, H55, and H57 buyers a bit happeir. Now they can "mimic" some Crossfire and SLI functions that allow the full 16x 16x that an X58 allows, but at a cost. Would you buy this add on or would you rather have gotten an X58 instead?

What do you think?

its a good idea in theory, but it makes the boards too expensive, and i don't really think that it is for x16/x16 its more for having a tri card setup (x16/x8/x8), as normally the LGA1156 processors only have 16 lanes which is enough for 2 x8 lanes and not 3

i am a fan, just too expensive

Is the extra expense of the NF200 worth the savings of going with an LGA1156 platform over 1366? I think it might be, considering that there are now CPUs that are very adequite for gaming cheaper than the i5-750.

If a NF200 mobo has a premium that is equal or less than the premium of an i7 920 over i5-750, then yes, gamers should consider this option for multi-card builds. Anyone with a viable use for a hyperthreaded i7 might consider the 860 option, but then costs start equalizing in the comparisons.

Not everyone can afford it, right?

These boards aren't cheap with the nf200, plus if you are pairing them with a 1156 i7, you may as well buy a x58 board, it costs the same. Now if you are going i3 or i5, ehh maybe. But chances are if you are going that route you aren't paying $200+ for a motherboard. I'm sure it has it's place though. Honestly if I was going on a budget, I'd just get an i3 and H55 motherboard with a single GPU solution. What else do you really need?

Who is going to get a P55 and run 3 cards? 3 cards = enthusiast. Enthusiast = Enthusiast equipment = x58.

I think the only bench that had any difference in a single or dual card setup was for FarCry2. Everything else was the same with a single or dual card setup.

Yup because you're going for high end you're probably going to buy something like a i7-860 to go with your 3 5850's(you're doing it at cost lulz) frankly if you're buying 3 4 gpu's that need the extra bandwidth you probably could throw some money into buying a nice cpu to lower the bottlenecking and a nice monitor that "needs" your ridiculous set up. You're an enthusiast just settle down and buy your x58 evga board already.

Until i see a dirt cheap NF200+P55 board then maybe you can sake by with a tri fire 5850 and a i5-750

People complain about the expected short time till we get EOL on LGA 1156/1366 but frankly i think people are spoiled by LGA775 which was here for a very long time. It's not like AMD was so great and mighty they went AM2/AM2+/AM3 it would ease up on switch as one can get a cpu to fit their mobo kind of but it's not like AMD wasn't phasing out sockets if anything there were doing it much more often then intel but they were just being more gentle with the process.

Great, the Fermi is now supposedly called the GTX480 and GTX470

They seam to hold up well and don't put out to much heat and after a years use with my 780i I have to say its good. 3 cards in use atm and all 16x.

True and same for those who voted for Obama (legal name Barry Soetoro) they were fans but really your spot on. Rep for you.

Lets just say 1156 is not that great of a platform for this company and product to even exist......Just get the X58 LGA1366