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January 2, 2005 3:58:02 PM

I'm building a brand new CPU and it thought about using the new Gigabyte GA-K8NXP board that has PCI-Express and the Nforce4 chipset.

but, i dont want to immidiatly buy 2 graphic cards.
is it a good idea to buy the geforce 6800 now, and after a few more month buy another card?
and what kinds of card will i be able to buy?


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January 2, 2005 4:10:39 PM

IMO one fast cards are better than two mediocre cards, at least you know what you got.
It just seems that the future of SLI is to unknown, and is very costly for unknown promises.

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January 2, 2005 7:08:39 PM

cpu = whole comp u turkey giblet.

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January 2, 2005 11:06:26 PM

Which many people consider the entire case/psu/mobo the central processing unit.

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January 2, 2005 11:15:52 PM

agree w/RichPLS, SLI is too new, uncertain future, and overpriced right now imo to start jumping on that bandwagon. I'm going regular nForce4 Ultra whenever it is I finally pull trigger on a new pc purchase.
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January 3, 2005 12:49:39 AM

No point in going with a GF6800 now, doubling it's performance won't be that great a deal, and I doubt prices will drop that much on them long term. The GF6800GT/GF6600GT would be the best starting points because they are good values for money, and they offer nice options of another good value for money card. The GF6800 vanilla isn't as attractive a long term option for SLI, and doesn't offer enough short term to justify the price if you're serious.

But that's just my two frames worth.


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January 3, 2005 4:37:29 PM

"I'm building a brand new CPU"

are u trying to blow AMD and Intel of the market ???

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January 3, 2005 4:58:30 PM

Sounds like a plan to me. Not many people can dish out a grand for a pair of cards even if they wanted to.

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January 3, 2005 10:37:09 PM

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Which many people consider the entire case/psu/mobo the central processing unit.


It was a joke, get over it.

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January 4, 2005 3:02:33 AM

Although we can argue semantics, you're right anyways, a CPU is just the core processor in reality. It's definitely a common mistake though to use it instead of "PC" when refering to the tower itself.

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January 4, 2005 3:04:47 AM

I'm also considering that mobo, but the standard NF4 Ultra version. I'm not too sure SLI is that much of a good investment to already pay way more for the mobo, not to mention with ATi's solution, one has to wonder how many choices must we have of mobos and chipsets or if current dual PCIe mainboards will accept ATi's solution.

But I'm definitely hooked on that Gigabyte mainboad's offerings. Finally a good PCIe offering (as scarce as they are).

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January 4, 2005 5:16:10 PM

Dudes, you didnt answer my question.
I wanted to know more about SLi!
what kinds of graphic card can i put on it?
will ANY PCIexpress gpu work?
or do they have to be the same chipset?
the same maker?
the same company?


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January 4, 2005 5:51:11 PM

SLI needs the exact same type of videocards by Nvidia. It only works with 6600GT's, 6800GTs, or 6800 Ultras.

You have to use the same card (i.e. two 6600GT's)... you can't use a 6600GT and a 6800GT. You also can't use non-GT cards for SLI at all (like the plain 6600 or the 6800).

Ati's upcoming implementation is supposed to be a little less restrictive as to the types of cards you can use, but we'll see.

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January 4, 2005 7:29:18 PM

thats not true, i saw Tomshardware run a test on Sli with Radeon cards

was this in my imagination?

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January 4, 2005 7:45:17 PM

Unfortunately, yes.

Unless you saw an advance test of Ati's multi-card rendering system, which is *not* SLI. I forget what Ati calls their version of SLI...

Ati's system will be coming out in a few months and will only work with new Ati chipsets.

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January 4, 2005 7:46:39 PM

ATI's SLI is called AMR (Ati Multi Rendering) and yeah, it only works with ATI chipsets (no bridge chips required)

The toms article the other guy saw was when Lars got an ATI X800 and Nvidia 6800 working on one board, and he would enable them one at a time. They were NOT working together or in any kind of dual mode.



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January 4, 2005 8:45:21 PM

Having a SLI setup sounds risky to me...

If I purchase one card today and buy the same one again in several months ahead at lower cost but like other brands of cards, it might be turned out to be discontined and maybe difficult to track it down???
January 4, 2005 10:52:25 PM

f-in cow giblet.

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January 5, 2005 4:46:41 AM

You like cow giblets don't you?

You wanna sekz under one?

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January 5, 2005 5:31:22 AM

I'll sekz u under one.

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January 5, 2005 7:40:18 PM

There's also the fact that ATi and nVidia's next gen parts may outperform two cards in SLI. If you wait to take advantage of SLI, you may be waiting fruitlessly.

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January 5, 2005 7:48:45 PM

I was looking up the speks on the asus n6800 and it says 'SLI capable'. Are we waiting on somebody to give the OK to use 6800s? Or maybe drivers aren't rdy? Or has somebody(asus) decided to tease me with that label?

In regards to the original post...i haven't seen any jump in performance more then around 5-10% in SLI vs single. Correct me if i'm wrong, but right now we're pretty much CPU limited when we go in to a SLI formation. Which probably means that they need some sort of dual cpu combo in addition to SLI (<wets himself dreaming>)...

still waiting on my dual zeon laptop...

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