On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:55, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> The nVidia nForce4 and ViA KT890 solutions will be the first to offer a
> HyperTransport-to-PCI-Express bridge for Socket-754/939/940.
The "high-end" nForce4 SLI is the first to come out. The mainboards are
$250+. In fact, the Asus A8N-SLI is hitting this week for $299 list.
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8nsli-d/overview.htm
The more "commodity" nForce4 and "mid-range" nForce Ultras will be
$100-200. Expect those either later in the month, or early January.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2248
>From what I understand, nVidia wanted to catch the enthusiasts before
Christmas, hence their focus on the costly nForce4 SLI (for those
willing to pay). But, again, if you can wait a month, the commodity
options will be there.
I'm not sure SLI is anything to go crazy over. In Windows, possibly
because of how DirectX works, you have to have specific titles written
for it. Not sure about OpenGL, but Doom3 seems to get a major boost.
As such, maybe it _will_ benefit _all_ OpenGL titles (gaming or
professional) without any additional coding. No one has addressed (at
least the enthusiast sites I've hit) this from what I've seen, and I
haven't seen any developer commentary on nVidia's site (although I
haven't checked in awhile).
-- Bryan
P.S. I now wait for the on-slaught of ABA (Anything But Asus ;-)
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