nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition with Conroe support

[BlackX]

At last we will see 7900GTX SLI with Conroe in action! :banana:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce5_specs_intel.html

[Clairvoyant129]

Ehh, Intel SLI boards are eiffy at best. Hope they are better than the current ones out now.

[BlackX]

5xx series pwnz on AM2. hope the same is on Intel :banana:

[tombman]

590 SLI for Intel is excactly what i will get for Conroe XE ;)

[Victorshen]

thats it...
590SLI+ Quad SLI.....

[LarsK]

Well, having owned and payed for 4 different Nvidia Intel Nforce 4 motherboards, who all either died or overclocked miserably I for one will wait.... I'll stik with my ATI CF setup.

[Jagz64]

does any one know how much the mobo's will cost?

hope'in to get me self one.

[maverik-sg1]

I will wait to see - I dont want to change CPU's just yet - but if there isn't a decent SLI set-up for conroe - then it looks as though ATI will get my cash.

Having said that 65nm AM2 will be out by the time I make that jump - so who knows which way I will go yet - Conroe is favourite but I am hanging on to see.

Mav

[twisted5]

Looks nice but will it OC well like others have said? May just stick with intel and crossfire.

[BlackX]

like k|ngp|n said it OCs like hell!

[keiths]

My worry would be that it has the same power draw problem as the AM2 version.

[twisted5]

on the AM2 version yes it OCs. I will wait till it comes out on an Intel platform to see if it does for conroe.

[BitpowerPM]

Nice feature list but power consumption will be the most Xtreme thing. :D :rolleyes: :nono:

[tombman]

thats it...
590SLI+ Quad SLI.....
+ Conroe XE ;)

[3NZ0]

lets hope it doesnt get stuck at 266 fsb.... :slap:

[Clairvoyant129]

Well, having owned and payed for 4 different Nvidia Intel Nforce 4 motherboards, who all either died or overclocked miserably I for one will wait.... I'll stik with my ATI CF setup.


I agree. So far, all of my nForce 4 Intel Edition mobos sucked. I'll be going with the good old Crossfire + ATI chipset. I finally get to dump my 7800GTXs.

[Metroid]

Seeing the technical specs I noticed that the linkboost is not included...

I remember an interview happened last week the Nvidia engineers stating the linkboost would not be available now.

What a shame..:(

The interview is just below if someone wants to read that.

Just a quick 1 about the Nvidia chat with a great computer review website.

Bjorn3D.

If you want to take a look the link is below.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=922

Please Feel free to discuss.

[Marlowe]

From the interview:
BTW, I will be at PDXLan this Friday with the fastest PC on planet (using air cooling)Someone go to that lanparty with an aircooled overclocked Yonah system and show him who's man :banana:


On another note: A shame on the lack of Linkboost in 590 SLI Intel Edition

[kyleslater]

Well, having owned and payed for 4 different Nvidia Intel Nforce 4 motherboards, who all either died or overclocked miserably I for one will wait.... I'll stik with my ATI CF setup.
Well I'm kinda with you. I really like my Intel motherboard. But I also like my Nvidia card. I'm probably just stay with a single GPU and a PhysX card instead of doing the SLI physics thing.

[lionel57000]

590 SLI for Intel is excactly what i will get for Conroe XE ;)

me too

have you some example or preview of motherboard .?

[Skyline GT-R]

Info added to my Conroe Boards thread :)

[Nasgul]

People, don't get your hopes so high with the 590SLI, it's an nVidia chipset for cryin' out-loud.

nVidia tried and failed miserably to come up with a good product for Intel (but so did VIA and SiS) and I don't see anything changing this time around since that both 590s is meant for both, amd and Intel. C51X will be a flop as its predecessor, my crystal ball has see the future and once again nVidia will fail.

[Kunaak]

Nvidias NF4 for 775 was a disaster...

hopefully, they went to the drawing board and did something drastically different, so the NF5 doesn't suck for the conroe/Nvidia setups.

lets hope...

[Shpoon]

People, don't get your hopes so high with the 590SLI, it's an nVidia chipset for cryin' out-loud.

nVidia tried and failed miserably to come up with a good product for Intel (but so did VIA and SiS) and I don't see anything changing this time around since that both 590s is meant for both, amd and Intel. C51X will be a flop as its predecessor, my crystal ball has see the future and once again nVidia will fail.

And Core Duo is an Intel invention. Remember the Prescotts?

If I had said Intel's next release was going to spank AMD last year, I'd be laughed off of the forums. And guess what? Here we are, waiting desperately for July 23rd so that we can get our hands on Intel's new release.

How times change, no?

How can you say Nvidia will fail? Is it only Intel now that can rise from the ashes of a failed product? I think your crystal ball needs a little cleaning, your nose stains must have smudged it.

[nettwerk2006]

I bought an Nforce4 board,
unimpressed.

I bought an Nforce4 x16 board,
hoped for the best,
but left again,
unimpressed.

This time i'll wait,
so I don't make the same mistake,
but hope for the best.

[Shpoon]

I bought an Nforce4 board,
unimpressed.
I bought an Nforce4 x16 board,
hoped for the best,
but left again,
unimpressed.

This time i'll wait,
so I don't make the same mistake,
but hope for the best.

Exactly, I'm buying a nice 975 (DFI infiity probably) then after the NF5 comes out, I'll wait, see the reviews, if it actually works well, then I'll ebay my first board and get the other.

Edit:

To sum some things up since some posts got deleted:

I'm not too optimistic about NF5, but I can always hope. I don't belive in track records, and maybe, just maybe we'll get a nice Nvidia chipset :)

[Haltech]

Exactly, I'm buying a nice 975 (DFI infiity probably) then after the NF5 comes out, I'll wait, see the reviews, if it actually works well, then I'll ebay my first board and get the other.

Edit:

To sum some things up since some posts got deleted:

I'm not too optimistic about NF5, but I can always hope. I don't belive in track records, and maybe, just maybe we'll get a nice Nvidia chipset :)

i think you would rather have the DFI RD600, which will be released before their 975x.

[Shpoon]

i think you would rather have the DFI RD600, which will be released before their 975x.

And use my nice XFX 7900GT?

I wish :(

[Haltech]

And use my nice XFX 7900GT?

I wish :(

Why cant you use the nice 7900GT on it? I havent seen one nvidia based video card perform terribly on an ATI chipset. This is looking to be the ultimate conroe board.. You should consider it.

[[XC] hipno650]

im waiting for the reviews but i hope this performes and ocs well to like 400fsb (i hope) i seem to be the only person with a good performing intel nforce board. i am extremly satisfied with it and it oced well. it also has tones of ocing options like ati much hyped supposedly new indepent fsb and mem clocks. and chipset ocing (how cool is that:D)

[Shpoon]

Why cant you use the nice 7900GT on it? I havent seen one nvidia based video card perform terribly on an ATI chipset. This is looking to be the ultimate conroe board.. You should consider it.

I just always wanted to keep the SLI option there...just incase.

And I'll wait for reviews to see if it's going to be the best :p

Edit: low fsb though, no?

[Fixxxer]

I don't trust nVIDIA anymore. Isn't suposed that Intel processors don't generate enough bandwidth to run SLI?

I preffer i975x or ATI RD600+SB650.

Buy a nVIDIA chipset to run SLI? No, thanks. I better run ATI CF under Intel/ATI chipsets if I want to.

[Grayskull]

Fastest air cooled system eh? I know a blonde Finnish dude that disagrees. ;)



From the interview:Someone go to that lanparty with an aircooled overclocked Yonah system and show him who's man :banana:


On another note: A shame on the lack of Linkboost in 590 SLI Intel Edition

[vapb400]

Fastest air cooled system eh? I know a blonde Finnish dude that disagrees. ;)
BAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA :toast: :toast: :slobber:

[Alex08]

Fastest air cooled system eh? I know a blonde Finnish dude that disagrees. ;)

must be the Eminem look-a-like ;)

[Metroid]

JUNE 5, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation.


Announced yesterday that it is showcasing a wide variety of its Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor-compatible products at this year’s Computex tradeshow being held this week in Taipei, Taiwan. Computex attendees can check out the amazing high-definition gaming systems located in the NVIDIA booth (Exhibition Hall 1, #b810) on the show floor—all featuring the Company’s GeForce 7-series graphics processing units (GPUs) running on NVIDIA nForce 500-series media and communications processors (MCPs)—and powered by Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Extreme CPUs. NVIDIA products on display include:

* The new GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics solution, incorporating the power of two GeForce7 GPUs on a single PCI-Express x16 graphics card for the ultimate in single-card graphics performance

* NVIDIA Quad SLI technology, featuring the power of two GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics cards running in NVIDIA SLI configuration

* The NVIDIA nForce 500 series of MCPs for Intel platforms, including NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI, NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI and NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra—all designed for Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Extreme CPUs.

This show us that the NForce5 line is coming before we were expecting.


Source here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_31679.html)


Usefull news form Tech ReportSource 2 here (http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/10118)

I can not wait to put my hands in.:)

Just a negative point about the linkboost not be available in the launch line.:(


...

[vapb400]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2739

reference board from computex

[Metroid]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2739

reference board from computex


It is really nice seeing that the progress is going forward.:toast:

The demonstrations came from ECS and Biostar:) but not the DFI:(

I wanted to see how the prototype looked like.:fact:

I have to wait for 5 or 10 days I suppose.:(

Thanks for the reference. :)

[vapb400]

It is really nice seeing that the progress is going forward.:toast:

The demonstrations came from ECS and Biostar:) but not the DFI:(

I wanted to see how the prototype looked like.:fact:

I have to wait for 5 or 10 days I suppose.:(

Thanks for the reference. :)
Unless I read wrong, I think ECS and Biostar were both just showing the reference design, so the boards were made by nvidia and just displayed by them.

What happens in 5 or 10 days?

[Metroid]

Unless I read wrong, I think ECS and Biostar were both just showing the reference design, so the boards were made by nvidia and just displayed by them.

What happens in 5 or 10 days?


Able to see any DFI prototype.:)

[lutjens]

I've always thought (and still think) that the most qualified people to build a chipset for an Intel CPU is Intel themselves.

Intel's chipsets are second to none...always have been.

There is no reason why SLI can't work on Intel's chipsets other than pure politics...and that annoys enthusiasts to no end, especially when we shell out lots of $$$ to buy the high end gear. Now if Intel and NVidia could put the politics behind them and each do what they do best...NVidia makes the graphics cards and Intel makes the CPUs/chipsets.

We'd be all much better off...;)

[freecableguy]

975X is and will continue to be the fastest chipset for Conroe until 2007 when we see something new (hint: also from Intel). Period.

[zert]

without a doubt fcg, although i thing the RD600 will also be a nice platform for conroe

[Torin]

975X is and will continue to be the fastest chipset for Conroe until 2007 when we see something new (hint: also from Intel). Period.
Any particular reason? The newer technology of the P965 chipset has no effect on this statement?

[ost_2005]

And Core Duo is an Intel invention. Remember the Prescotts?

If I had said Intel's next release was going to spank AMD last year, I'd be laughed off of the forums. And guess what? Here we are, waiting desperately for July 23rd so that we can get our hands on Intel's new release.

How times change, no?

How can you say Nvidia will fail? Is it only Intel now that can rise from the ashes of a failed product? I think your crystal ball needs a little cleaning, your nose stains must have smudged it.
Nvidia will fail again without doudt.
Why? It is obviously.

Look at Two heatpipes you will know.

[LarsK]

975X is and will continue to be the fastest chipset for Conroe until 2007 when we see something new (hint: also from Intel). Period.

I am guessing some desktop version of a server chipset here.... :p:

[FischOderAal]

975X is and will continue to be the fastest chipset for Conroe until 2007 when we see something new (hint: also from Intel). Period.

that's what I think, too. but some people *cough* FLG_Poncho *cough* still claim i965 will be much faster...

but well, we will see. but the "Fast Memory Technology" of the 965 won't be enough to make it far faster (in benchies maybe a bit). the same way normaly the timings of the Ram doesn't effect overall performance that much (my MDT runs at 2,5-4-4-8 atm... but had it on 2-3-2-5 for some time and felt no difference for example while gaming).

[Nosfer@tu]

I don't trust nVIDIA anymore. Isn't suposed that Intel processors don't generate enough bandwidth to run SLI?

I preffer i975x or ATI RD600+SB650.

Buy a nVIDIA chipset to run SLI? No, thanks. I better run ATI CF under Intel/ATI chipsets if I want to.

So agrea with you :)
But not that dieharted Nvidia hater that I would give up the 7900 GT :)

[Shpoon]

/Noobquestion

You can run a Nvidia card on a board with an ATI chipset, no? Just not CF....

Any disadvantages to that?

[JoeBar]

975X is and will continue to be the fastest chipset for Conroe until 2007 when we see something new (hint: also from Intel). Period.
I agree with u. :)

[Shpoon]

Nvidia will fail again without doudt.
Why? It is obviously.

Look at Two heatpipes you will know.

I didn't even see this, I'd argue once again like last time, but the posts would be deleted again....

And FYI, I hate heatpipes....it sucks for trying to have low noise/few fans.

And I could easily cope with a hot NF5 with an aftermarket cooler.