SLI for Pentium 4?

[Ralidan]

Will the SLI motherboards be for AMD or Pentium CPUs? or both? i see the alienware one that they are selling has a Xeon in it.. so does that mean that its going to be Intel based? I am a couple weeks from buying my P4 rig, but if SLI is never coming to the Intel side, i'm not going to do it. Anyone have any for-sure answers?

Thanks,
Ralidan

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Considering that Alienware doesn't seem to be offering SLI for any of their AMD rigs just yet, there should be P4 systems with it, HOWEVER, because nVidia makes motherboard chipsets for AMD I'm sure we'll see far more SLI capable motherboards on the market before we see any or as many P4 motherboards...

Now if you want SLI chances are you want a gaming rig, which AMD is better at anyways, ever think of just going A64 and nForce 4 SLI?

 

[rimshot]

And not to mention that if your go Xeon you'll need Registered ECC memory which is a little more expensive. I should know because i bought it for my rig and i'm pretty p!ssed now because if i want upgrade my rig i have to buy new memory as well a Mobo and processor which means if i go SLI it would have to be Intel Xeon based (because of my ram) which is not the CPU i would normally choose for gaming.

My advice is wait for A64 939 socket SLI.

 

[Marsumane]

Originally posted by: rimshot
And not to mention that if your go Xeon you'll need Registered ECC memory which is a little more expensive. I should know because i bought it for my rig and i'm pretty p!ssed now because if i want upgrade my rig i have to buy new memory as well a Mobo and processor which means if i go SLI it would have to be Intel Xeon based (because of my ram) which is not the CPU i would normally choose for gaming.

My advice is wait for A64 939 socket SLI.

Your rig is insane. If i were u and i wanted to upgrade, id just sell the ram and get new ram to fit your new rig. Then again, i thought u could use ecc memory in s939, just its not the default choice. It doesnt seem like u take heavy hits from expensive hardware anyways. Your rig is well approaching 3k in costs in the first place, if not more.

 

[rimshot]

Originally posted by: Marsumane

Originally posted by: rimshot
And not to mention that if your go Xeon you'll need Registered ECC memory which is a little more expensive. I should know because i bought it for my rig and i'm pretty p!ssed now because if i want upgrade my rig i have to buy new memory as well a Mobo and processor which means if i go SLI it would have to be Intel Xeon based (because of my ram) which is not the CPU i would normally choose for gaming.

My advice is wait for A64 939 socket SLI.

Your rig is insane. If i were u and i wanted to upgrade, id just sell the ram and get new ram to fit your new rig. Then again, i thought u could use ecc memory in s939, just its not the default choice. It doesnt seem like u take heavy hits from expensive hardware anyways. Your rig is well approaching 3k in costs in the first place, if not more.

I haven't seen any 939 boards that support Reg ECC ram. If i went into SLI just buying 2 x PCI-E Ultras or GT's would be nearing my limit. Those SLI mobo's are going to cost a bit aswell.

Peace

 

[nRollo]

Isn't there a dual PCIE motherboard by Intel already, that costs a lot?

 

[nitromullet]

It's a server board based on the Tumwater chipset that only supports Xeon. Not really a reasonable purchase for a desktop gaming system.

 

[rimshot]

Which board is it?

 

[Ralidan]

But will it be for p4 eventually?

 

[rimshot]

Originally posted by: Ralidan
But will it be for p4 eventually?

They might but nothing anounced as of yet.

It also depends whether SLI takes off or not and if enough people can afford it. I'm sure if it becomes mainstream P4 or by then P5 will provide a SLI option.

But serioulsy go for a A64 939 SLI Rig if you can, it's better than anything Intel currently has to offer.

 

[dguy6789]

ATI has said their dual gpu solution will be for both amd and intel. But this is supposed to be out by winter 05, so we have a while to wait.

 

[Ralidan]

Which motherboard is the best for AMD's SLI??

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: Ralidan
Which motherboard is the best for AMD's SLI??

no one knows yet since none are out. my best bet is the new dfi lanparty.