No SLI for Nehalem? - Page 2

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Truth be told,Nvidia alots us a new card for display and show purposes every 6 months for mine and my wife's store front,but,on the other hand AMD/ATI sends us a display/demo card for every new release....there are no rich spoiled people on this end....There are alot of times may paycheck from my fulltime job pays the bills to keep our small buisness going.

Im not compairing...At this moment,going with whats on the market(available to the public,now)and money is not a concern,what graphics card solution/combination will be the absolute fastest...We have already had one of "our best customers"purchase a pair of 280's,and he wants a third when the driver's are worked out.Yes,its true he could have had a pair of 4870's,for the price of 1 280,but,it was"his"money,and"he"wanted the fastest solution at the present.Hell,we could have sold him"4"4870's cheaper than a pair of 280's,and they still would have been cheaper...I'm not ashamed to admit that the ATI cards are the best"deal"around,and if Intel does'nt allow Nvidia a license to build Nehalem chipsets,I will build my next home rig,around multiple ATI cards,there's no way I'm gonna use and AMD cpu so I can have SLI.I like Intel far more than Nvidia...

Not really... Even if we ignore the fact that the GTX 280 and the 4870X2 are about the same price.

Since you can't find a motherboard (or a power supply!) that will let you even TRY four GTX 280s at once, while there will be loads of options to have a pair of 4870s. I.e, the best nVidia setup POSSIBLE (what people will ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO USE) will be a pair of GTX 280s, or POSSIBLY 3 of them, if they lash together a couple of PSUs. This will compare to multi-card setups involving the 4870X2. As noted, the 4870X2 is suggested to be more powerful than a pair of 4870s in CrossFire, both due to having a more efficient and tighter architecture typing the two GPUs together, (hence making it more efficient than either CrossFire or SLi) as well as the apparent fact that the X2 version will actually clock the cores to 775MHz instead of 750MHz.