No SLI for Conroe

jrodga2k5 · 20 Apr 2006 at 13:23

It's ineteresting indeed and you have to admit why would you really want to cut out the Intel fanbase which im sure a few already have sli intel systems! interesting indeed!

It seems strange but I guess we'll just need to wait and see really! All im hoping is that amd and nvidia dont strike up a deal now cos I always by AMD systems lol! It wont tho!

kdd · 20 Apr 2006 at 13:25

Conroe well and truly caught amd out imo. Amd must be cacking themselves, possibly a large cash sum nvidia's way to keep the green team on their side...
Bit suicidal for nvidia really, seeing as dell are moving into the gaming market in a big way and they are buddies with intel. If nvidia want to sell sli massive style surely they would have to have intel support?

jrodga2k5 · 20 Apr 2006 at 13:45

Yeha but apparently dell are moving to AMD

man_from_uncle · 20 Apr 2006 at 13:54

I also hear that 'Oinker Airways' are going to be a player in the budget flyer market.

Goksly · 20 Apr 2006 at 14:49

man_from_uncle said:
Good point Chaparral, PhysX cards might also change the landscape and make SLi on conroe less important.

1) The nvidia (and ATI) phsyx tech - you need 2 graphics cards.

2) Having a phsyx card reduces the cpu bottle kneck - hopefully making the gpu the bottlekneck and thus increasing the positive effect sli has.

3) I reckon nvidia arent doing an intel chipset because of the money they would have to shell out to intel.

speeduk · 20 Apr 2006 at 15:14

Looks like a 2nd x1900 it is then when conroe comes out. And a 1000w psu to power it all lol.

kdd · 20 Apr 2006 at 16:04

jrodga2k5 said:
Yeha but apparently dell are moving to AMD

it's been rumoured for some time but amd simply can't supply dell with the amount of chips they'd need.

Goksly · 20 Apr 2006 at 16:43

Hense the reason for them building (iirc its almost complete) another fab and rumours are rife that another one is in the planning stage. That should help them supply dell... however with conroe looking to give intel the egde again, dell might not want em

kdd · 20 Apr 2006 at 18:30

Goksly said:
Hense the reason for them building (iirc its almost complete) another fab and rumours are rife that another one is in the planning stage. That should help them supply dell... however with conroe looking to give intel the egde again, dell might not want em

it was pretty cunning of dell to delay talks with amd until after conroe had been announced.

Spyhop · 20 Apr 2006 at 18:47

Why do people constantly post this?

A single card WILL NEVER BE AS QUICK. If you want THE BEST, you need two cards (or now four).

Way to miss the point. As has already been remarked - whether you personally buy into SLI/XFire yourself, a dual/quad setup is demonstrably faster than any single card.

Calm down. Who said anything about the absolute best? The original post said "So this basically means if you want Conroe, and fast graphics - you will have to switch to ATI and get Crossfire"

Goksly · 20 Apr 2006 at 18:56

kdd said:
it was pretty cunning of dell to delay talks with amd until after conroe had been announced.

Yup - heat will be off by then i reckon and mike dell can say he was right all along

^TANK^ · 20 Apr 2006 at 20:32

KizZ said:
Yes! Have that you Intel lovers

darkblade · 21 Apr 2006 at 18:21

chaparral said:
I wonder if this is anything to do with Nvdia hoping that the PhysX Accelerator with give you all the cpu speed you need.

With nvidia trying to add this PhysX Accelerator to there own cards as well..

Er, really? nVidia are working on getting the Havok physics engine to run on their SLI cards. I can't think they will want to do that AND support PhysX too!

Durzel · 21 Apr 2006 at 19:42

darkblade said:
Er, really? nVidia are working on getting the Havok physics engine to run on their SLI cards. I can't think they will want to do that AND support PhysX too!

They don't need to support PhysX - the whole point of it is that it offloads CPU power. Graphics cards don't "do" physics, they just show the results.

BS Dave · 23 Apr 2006 at 01:10

er type havok fx into google and see what it brings up.

and another thing conroe is bound to be quicker than AM2 since it's die shrink down to 65nm iirc. sure it'll be quicker than the current x2 90nm chips, but if you wanna compare tech you should want until the die AM2 die shrink next year

ihatelag · 23 Apr 2006 at 01:19

Durzel said:
They don't need to support PhysX - the whole point of it is that it offloads CPU power. Graphics cards don't "do" physics, they just show the results.

Will Havok FX Support AGEIA?

Havok FX will support hardware that can execute standard OpenGL and Direct3D code at the Shader Model 3.0 level. If the AGEIA card and drivers adopt and support Shader Model 3.0 industry standard, Havok FX support will be possible.

Looks like Ageia will be under pressure to produce something really special, otherwise Havoc fx will be causing havoc for Ageia.

Naffa · 23 Apr 2006 at 01:22

Intel CPUs already use a 65nm process. Conroe will be faster than all AMD has on the drawing board till at least the end of the year.

noxidjkram@hotm · 23 Apr 2006 at 08:42

paradigm said:
Why do people constantly post this?

A single card WILL NEVER BE AS QUICK. If you want THE BEST, you need two cards (or now four).

I seem to remember when voodoo combined two cards everyone thought they were amazing - it wasn't long before a single card came out with considerably better performance.

Perhaps thats what people mean? In time there will be a single card that is better.

M

mmj_uk · 23 Apr 2006 at 09:35

Don't NVidia make NForce chipsets for Intel CPU's? if so what is the problem? the current Intel chipsets don't support SLI either afaik, the fact that Intel chipsets don't have the bandwidth sounds like bs more like 'we want people to buy our boards' if u ask me.

Energize · 25 Apr 2006 at 04:01

Does anyone actually have an offical link for this?