New Asus nforce 590 sli conroe board is on their site!

Hopefully it won't be long before someone uses this board to test quad-sli with a Core2 to see if it is indeed the CPU that has been the limitation in previous builds.

An overclocked Core2 with twin 7950 GX2s (when the drivers are revised) might mean I can finally use my Dell 3007 to its full potential :D
 
lso I thought the 590 chipset for Intel was going to support that yhing where over the dual lan plugs you coud use both on the same connection to make it quicker or something. Kind of raiding your network.
 
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Shakey_Jake33 said:
Am I seeing things or is that 3x PCI-E x16's?
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Yup, I read an article in the Inquirer (so dont quote me...) that the three slots are in preparation for ATIs GPU with physics processing support. So you'd have 2 cards in crossfire graphics mode, with a third card working as the physics proc.

Will be interesting to see what they can do compared to the physx card.
 
Sclodion said:
Yup, I read an article in the Inquirer (so dont quote me...) that the three slots are in preparation for ATIs GPU with physics processing support. So you'd have 2 cards in crossfire graphics mode, with a third card working as the physics proc.

Will be interesting to see what they can do compared to the physx card.
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Wouldn't have thought ATI x-fire would work on a nForce board.. ?
 
Sclodion said:
Yup, I read an article in the Inquirer (so dont quote me...) that the three slots are in preparation for ATIs GPU with physics processing support. So you'd have 2 cards in crossfire graphics mode, with a third card working as the physics proc.

Will be interesting to see what they can do compared to the physx card.
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:confused: Since when are nvidia helping ATI get new technologies off the ground. :p
 
Jokester said:
Might actually get this board for the SLI, just need to see how they clock. Looking for at least 430MHz I think.

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Hi there

Unfortunately the first SLi Conroe boards are proving very poor on the overclocks, its a nightmare even trying to get close to 400FSB, let alone past it. :(

Newer revisions and future BIOS releases may eventually get the nForce 590 chipset boards there but at the moment they can't compete with the Intel boards for overclockability.

Regarding the 3rd PCI-E slot yes it is to place a 3rd graphics card as ATI for sure will allow you to place any 3rd VGA card to run physics and its quite possible that nVidia have the same idea too. So anybody with say an old 6800 or X1800 will be able to use it to process physics. :)

P.S. Anybody seen a price for this board in the UK/USA?
 
Gibbo said:
P.S. Anybody seen a price for this board in the UK/USA?
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230 US Dollars in the states

edit, actually made a mistake there, looked at the wrong board. I supose it will be around 230-250 US though.
 
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You could go for a 4 x PCIe board aswell though, the Tyan Thunder n6650W (google it, I wont link). Dual CPU, 8 DIMM Slots, the list goes on. Obviously mean for high end workstation / server applications, but 4 x PCIe 16 slots is pretty mean.
 
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