Crysis bench stable was at 5.3 or so, not over 6G.
wow
probably a 5.8GHz LN2 chip
I reckon it was the same chip that hit 6.3G with 1.9v and temps of -180°C :D
How did they deal with board component temps? Id want heaters on the caps etc for temps like that
I want to know how far Phenom II can go on a Cryo-Z or similar cooling, 5GHz would be a blast if possible.
On NVIDIA SLI boards it's the drivers and BOIS that prohibit CFX to work on them, the CFX drivers only check if the cards are CFX compatible (no 3850 with a 4870 for example) and that there are enough PCIe lanes available. The SLI drivers also check if the motherboard is supported, but this 'support' is not some kind of hardware capability and any board with enough PCIe slots with the necessary lanes could support SLI if NVIDIA allowed it. SLI and CFX both use the standard PCIe protocol, so any chip with the needed amount of PCIe lanes should be able to support them. Any limitations to this compatibility come from restrictions put up by either ATI or NVIDIA, although I'm not aware of any restrictions that are made by ATI and so far only NVIDIA has put some limitations on their SLI support.
Very off topic in an AMD thread, but I will keep this short.
Easy to get several ram speeds.... You don't have a FSB anymore, just multipliers of the BClock.
Play with the Calculator and you can see the possibilities: http://icrontic.com/downloads/nehale...ing-calculator
Thanks!:up: Even if Phenom II has moderate sales, AMD will still sale their video cards to folks seeing nVidia's a Tax:rolleyes: Phenom II doesn't need nVidia at all IMHO! Our small market (though growing revenue wise) are the only ones who really give a flip anyway! How quickly do we forget nVidia had almost NO affect on the non-supporting SLI on Intel chipsets?
Wait, I think one of us doesnt get the point:p:
You asked whether AMD has a non-nVidia chipset both supporting CFX and SLI, which was in my eyes some rethorical question since we know AMD doesnt have it.
I answered that if you're pointing out that Intel does have, namely the X58, it ain't really true.
Intel still needs to include, well the motherboard manufacturer, a little chip from nVidia to enable SLI.
So basicly I was wondering if there's another chipset having both CFX and SLI from Intel without the nVidia chip or either of us missed the context of each others post;)
Not a big deal in anyway, but I guess it got a lot more complex than it could have been though:p:
Buth with SLI availability you'll still have more sales.
No matter nVidia was quite arrogant at the launch of GT200 and in the end they had to lower the prices to still be competitive, there are always nVidia fanboys/pro-nVidia people around. All the 'TWIMTBP' advertizing catches a lot of people even if they dont even know that this seriously doesnt do anything in performance. Some people just want compatability, also again this doesnt have a lot to do with said logo.
And non-nVidia users, be it permanent or whether they've the best card or not, really wont, or at least shouldnt, care whether they can use it or not. Also if nVidia gets a better card out again you wont have to get another motherboard if you want to have SLI.
Hopefully if AMD matching/exceeding Intel, we will see intel in attack mode soon. They have been snoozing since the 45nm rollout. Nehalem release rollout is awful. But this time they will not want to cede crown to AMD so I am hoping they will aggressively boost clockspeed or release westmere on time.
Snoozing implies Intel has been doing nothing at all. I'd say it's more like Intel is taking their sweet time on releasing chips. There is no rush to release chips that'll phase out other chips still on sale, might as well take your time and clear out your old stock while you safely hold onto the performance lead. Intel has atleast another 3 months before they have to be even concerned. If Deneb is as powerful as we are being lead to believe then perhaps Intel will worry a little for it's Q9400/Q9550 lines but otherwise they'll still have everything locked down.
Hope its true....if performance and value is similar to intel i kinda prefer giving money to the small company :)
But in the current situation I always (barring ultra cheapo machines) recommend intel.
Thanks to tbone8ty in AMD section who posted the link,we have a couple of new bench and OC results for ES 940 from here:
http://markbench.blogspot.com/2008/1...ith-deneb.html
Seems pretty impressive!