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[Cookie Monster]

Its also worth mentioning that a bunch of X58 boards are sent to nVIDIA for SLi certification. So this means, Xfire AND SLi capable boards is a reality. (Should of happened a long time ago). I think Asus is the only motherboard manufacturer to go with the nforce 200 chip route, and probably offering a full 4x PCI-ex16 lanes along with a ridiculous price tag.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Its also worth mentioning that a bunch of X58 boards are sent to nVIDIA for SLi certification. So this means, Xfire AND SLi capable boards is a reality. (Should of happened a long time ago). I think Asus is the only motherboard manufacturer to go with the nforce 200 chip route, and probably offering a full 4x PCI-ex16 lanes along with a ridiculous price tag.

Is Asus the company that made Intel's Skulltrail mobo with the similiar setup for tri/quad SLI using the extra nforce chip? Could be they are just leveraging their existing IP and know-how to reduce their upfront development costs of the X58 boards.

 

[Cookie Monster]

I think the Asus version of the skulltrail, dubbed "Asus Z7S WS" didn't use any nforce chips to begin with.

Its going to be interesting to see what the differences will be between "software" and hardware SLi on the X58s.

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Its also worth mentioning that a bunch of X58 boards are sent to nVIDIA for SLi certification. So this means, Xfire AND SLi capable boards is a reality. (Should of happened a long time ago). I think Asus is the only motherboard manufacturer to go with the nforce 200 chip route, and probably offering a full 4x PCI-ex16 lanes along with a ridiculous price tag.

I think EVGA will also go the nForce 200 route and will top ASUS in terms of overclocking stability, as they've proven in the past.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Yes! The performance MSI board has 2 PCI-E with an x58 chip that enables SLI and Crossfire. Here is a slide with all the motherboards' features.

http://www.tweaktown.com/popIm...ws_msix58lineuprev.jpg

 

[taltamir]

i am pretty sure both of these companies are not using the NF200 exclusively, but make a board with it and without it.
One NF200 chip allows 3x 16x v2 pcie. 2 NF200 chips allow 4x 16x v2 pcie.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Yes! The performance MSI board has 2 PCI-E with an x58 chip that enables SLI and Crossfire. Here is a slide with all the motherboards' features.

http://www.tweaktown.com/popIm...ws_msix58lineuprev.jpg

Why is Über Overclocker properly spelled (including the umlaut, the diacritical symbol, over the U in Über) but they can't spell Enthusiast correctly?

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Yes! The performance MSI board has 2 PCI-E with an x58 chip that enables SLI and Crossfire. Here is a slide with all the motherboards' features.

http://www.tweaktown.com/popIm...ws_msix58lineuprev.jpg

Why is Über Overclocker properly spelled (including the umlaut, the diacritical symbol, over the U in Über) but they can't spell Enthusiast correctly?

Lol :laugh: you cant believe how funny you made this.........Good eye

 

[taltamir]

And also, why are parts in english and parts in chinese... can't it be one or the other (or both, where each sentence is both in english and chinese)?

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Yes! The performance MSI board has 2 PCI-E with an x58 chip that enables SLI and Crossfire. Here is a slide with all the motherboards' features.

http://www.tweaktown.com/popIm...ws_msix58lineuprev.jpg

Why is Über Overclocker properly spelled (including the umlaut, the diacritical symbol, over the U in Über) but they can't spell Enthusiast correctly?

It is the Dutch way of spelling it.

http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/enthousiast

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
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If what Aigo says is true (and I'm quite sure he would know)

;P

I wonder why IDC.

Okey i better run away now.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Yes! The performance MSI board has 2 PCI-E with an x58 chip that enables SLI and Crossfire. Here is a slide with all the motherboards' features.

http://www.tweaktown.com/popIm...ws_msix58lineuprev.jpg

Why is Über Overclocker properly spelled (including the umlaut, the diacritical symbol, over the U in Über) but they can't spell Enthusiast correctly?

It is the Dutch way of spelling it.

http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/enthousiast

so that slide is part english, part chinese, part deutch? wow, using three languages in one slide, and not repeating anything in more than one language.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: taltamir

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Yes! The performance MSI board has 2 PCI-E with an x58 chip that enables SLI and Crossfire. Here is a slide with all the motherboards' features.

http://www.tweaktown.com/popIm...ws_msix58lineuprev.jpg

Why is Über Overclocker properly spelled (including the umlaut, the diacritical symbol, over the U in Über) but they can't spell Enthusiast correctly?

It is the Dutch way of spelling it.

http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/enthousiast

so that slide is part english, part chinese, part deutch? wow, using three languages in one slide, and not repeating anything in more than one language.

Don't forget Über is german, which is why it is so cool as to be adopted by us 1337 enthousiasts. So I guess that means four languages...and the slide was probably pulled together by someone in Japan :laugh:

Funny thing, Über means over in German and is also used as more, it does not mean super as we 1337 numbnuts like to incorrectly use it...but if you speak with germans much you'll notice that when they talk in english they tend to over-use the english word super as a catch-all for agreeing with whatever has just been said in conversation. At least the germans and austrians I spent a few years working with would constantly do this.

Everything was "super!", which inevitably led to us americans on the team to start saying "zuper" (with a z, I know, lame) all the time like we were da crazee germanz who say zuper all da time.

Invariably someone in the room would try and drop the teh uber phrase on the germans and they'd just look at the person with an expression on their face as if they were thinking "did this crazy american just say "would you like to see a donkey show" auf deutsch?".

 

[taltamir]

but super also means above or over. People just think super = awesome because of superman.

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

btw I forgot to post this: Fudzilla is claiming that Nehalem will launch in Week 46 (between November 10 and November 14):

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....=view&id=9632&Itemid=1

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: Idontcare
But if you are looking for Intel to tell Anand to tell us loyal readers that Nehalem is going to be released on Nov 10 then you will be dissapointed.

Well we are finally seeing the FUDzilla type articles now on i7 launch date:

The launch should take a place between 10th and 14th of November and we've learned that the Japanese part of Intel might get a green light to start selling its units a bit earlier.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....=view&id=9632&Itemid=1

I'll speak with Fudo about this. Afterall, he gave me his business card

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39
btw I forgot to post this: Fudzilla is claiming that Nehalem will launch in Week 46 (between November 10 and November 14):

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....=view&id=9632&Itemid=1

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

oh whoops forgot about that

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

I found this on TR Forums: "Oh yeah, I forgot: It's very imminent. Not sure of the exact date, but odd little white boxes with 'INTEL CONFIDENTIAL' are showing up just EVERYWHERE lately... That's usually 2-4 weeks before launch day, IME."

http://techreport.com/forums/v...p?f=2&p=878942#p878942

Hopefully it will come out in October which is one day away!

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
I found this on TR Forums: "Oh yeah, I forgot: It's very imminent. Not sure of the exact date, but odd little white boxes with 'INTEL CONFIDENTIAL' are showing up just EVERYWHERE lately... That's usually 2-4 weeks before launch day, IME."

http://techreport.com/forums/v...p?f=2&p=878942#p878942

Hopefully it will come out in October which is one day away!

Now that would be an awesome October surprise

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

So what happened to the three models that would be released?

"Ronak has been working for Intel since 1997, and back then he was working on the Pentium 4 processor. He said he had been working on Nehalem since 2003 and went on to explain that there will be two Nehalem CPU's released in Q4 of 2008, one being a mainstream quad-core chip, and the other being a server product. Also mentioned was that Intel intend to launch their Octo-core processor towards the latter part of Q4 2009. Bit of a wait hey?"

http://www.overclock3d.net/new...core_i7_presentation/1

 

[taltamir]

Octa CORE, not octa THREAD... they will have to go 32nm before they could put 8 cores on a one package.

 

[jones377]

In fairness, he said 2 CPU's, not 2 SKU's.

 

[jones377]

Originally posted by: taltamir
Octa CORE, not octa THREAD... they will have to go 32nm before they could put 8 cores on a one package.

Google Xeon, Beckton...

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: jones377

Originally posted by: taltamir
Octa CORE, not octa THREAD... they will have to go 32nm before they could put 8 cores on a one package.

Google Xeon, Beckton...

Looks to be about as big as Nvidia's GTX280

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334

http://www.hardwarezone.com/ar...iew.php?cid=18&id=2666

 

[Gary Key]

There is an NDA on the NDA lift date for i7/X58. Anyway, all I can say is that boards are in production now and retail kits will start arriving late next. Production samples have been around for the last week or so for BIOS tuning purposes.