SLI on 975X, official Nvidia response

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04-19-2006, 01:02 PM
Arnie

There is a third party patch, I have it right here on my desktop, I just dont have an SLI system to test if it works....
04-19-2006, 01:13 PM
Charles Wirth

Crossfire will take all top spots on the ORB, this includes 2K5.

Conroe spanks 3D hard, no score is safe on the ORB.
04-19-2006, 01:14 PM
FischOderAal

Quote:

Originally Posted by VulgarHandle

lol, i definately wouldn't blame nvidia for this, this is obviously an intel move

i had asked in another thread(half-jokingly, half-had to make sure) about who made i???x chipsets, which is of course, intel

this is pure market cornering for intel, i laughed way too hard when i knew intel made the chipsets

it is NOT a question of why NVIDIA DOSN'T WANT to make chipsets for intel,
it IS why does INTEL NOT WANT nvidia to make chipsets for intel?

and because intel dosn't want nvidia making chipsets for them, nvidia said, fine, no sli, which IMHO, is a good moral decision, i give nvidia props

now, this is great for ati, who, obviously, dosn't give a crap

of course, i'll still buy ati(simply because IN MY OWN EXPERIENCE, they produce better cards), as for processor/platform, i'll buy best bang for buck, so i hope amd puts up something to compete w/ conroe, give me more choices

keep in mind that nVidia is only a competitor for Intels Chipsets? oO most people prefer Intel Chipsets for Intel Processors (yeah, me too). so it's clear if Intel would ask: "Well, dude, can we add SLI support to our Mobos?" for sure nVidia says: "no, sweet, I'll bring out my own Chipsets to RULE THEM ALL!! kehkeh ^^" mkay, mixing up several films is bad... sry, for that.

but I don't get you point?
of course Intel wasn't too happy when nVidia startet up their nForce 4 Intel Edition (well, not a very great competitor as I might add due to the fact that most money is made in Mainstream/Office etc and there it only shall run stable and Intel Chipsets plus Intel Processors sounds best for me). the fact is that SLI is possible on Intel Chipsets, but for Enthusiasts it doesn't matter if they buy an Intel or an nVidia Chipset as long as they can use their Quad Sli... so they use this method to push forward their sales in Enthusiast market. SLI was only a thing of validiton via nVidia before, it was possible on other Chipsets as well even as nVidia said "no go" (SIS, Uli etc remember?).
of course engineer your own Chipset is very expensive and I think Ati saw not enough space left for their Chip to bring up enough money, so they thought they might just cooperate with the big dealer Intel and validate theirs ;) don't know if Ati got money for this...

well and what about "moral decision"? it's just about the bucks as mentioned in the text above ;)

well, I might have missunderstood something completely (some might even be wrong, so correct me if so), it's late (00:10 in Germany) and I had not that much sleep last night as I wanted to have X((
04-19-2006, 01:22 PM
dqniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by FUGGER

Crossfire will take all top spots on the ORB, this includes 2K5.

Conroe spanks 3D hard, no score is safe on the ORB.

CF already had 05 I thought :stick:

BTW, just wait a few weeks and you'll see some good Nvidia chipset + Nvidia cards scores ;)
04-19-2006, 01:29 PM
Fixxxer

Time to get a CF and leave nVIDIA apart.
04-19-2006, 01:39 PM
vanovich

ive also changed to ati becouse of this , so there sales is, and will be going down .they are biting there own tail here . which can only be good for ati .
04-19-2006, 02:03 PM
Charles Wirth

dqniel, that is AMD based NF4.

I was referring to Intel based scores and the "Intel cant touch this" remark as if it were true.
04-19-2006, 02:50 PM
althes

We shall see shortly, intel will rule the roost
04-19-2006, 03:07 PM
bikester1986

Quote:

Originally Posted by freecableguy

This will remove nVidia from the ORB.

PR guys from nVidia, are you listening? I have owned 12 7800GTX/7900GTX cards in the last year. My last ATI purchase was an x850XT when it first came out. Guess who just bought a pair of x1900XTX cards for CF? Yep....this guy.

Here's what he really wanted to say: "Intel chipsets does not provide enough bandwidth money to support SLI"

umm what job do you have lol....
04-19-2006, 03:14 PM
thunderstruck!

Quote:

Originally Posted by bikester1986

umm what job do you have lol....

I'd lik to know too:p:
04-19-2006, 04:17 PM
Durzel

Not being funny but surely whoever cares about ORB is a very small percentage of their buying public. Not everyone cares whether they are 100 points behind someone else, just as long as they can play their games at an acceptable framerate.

Just playing Devils Advocate here, and I've been an ATI buyer for years so this doesn't affect me anyway...
04-19-2006, 04:29 PM
Mr. Tinker

We should write an open letter to Nvidia.
04-19-2006, 04:33 PM
Charles Wirth

You might want to check the current membership count at futuremark.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/statistics.jsp

Sup 3 million registered users...

People do look at the top of the ORB to see what the next hardware purchase will be.
04-19-2006, 04:39 PM
Rocket

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinker

We should write an open letter to Nvidia.

That would be about as useful as writing an open letter to Intel....It would fall on deaf ears. ;)

I`m seriously considering buying ATI on my next build anyways.
04-19-2006, 05:02 PM
k|ngp|n

Quote:

Originally Posted by dqniel

MMouse and Kingp|n say it won't ;)

hehe...Well I'm not exactly as outspoken as my counterpart ;), however the top of the orb has been pretty green as of late. Maybe that tide is changing with these new intel chips.... maybe not.
If MM gets his current project running on all cylinders we are all in trouble....for real :eek:.Hate to say it but, his new rig will make my current 06' score look like kid's play.
04-19-2006, 05:04 PM
dqniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by FUGGER

dqniel, that is AMD based NF4.

I was referring to Intel based scores and the "Intel cant touch this" remark as if it were true.

I thought you meant overall, sorry :)
04-19-2006, 05:14 PM
Greenhead

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinker

We should write an open letter to Nvidia.

why nvidia has some serious IQ issues, ATI imo is the superior card to buy.
04-19-2006, 05:34 PM
vapb400

Quote:

Originally Posted by k|ngp|n

hehe...Well I'm not exactly as outspoken as my counterpart ;), however the top of the orb has been pretty green as of late. Maybe that tide is changing with these new intel chips.... maybe not.
If MM gets his current project running on all cylinders we are all in trouble....for real :eek:.Hate to say it but, his new rig will make my current 06' score look like kid's play.

yumm dual dual core opteron goodness.
04-19-2006, 05:46 PM
death metal

:( well, I guess no SLI for me.
04-19-2006, 06:28 PM
[XC] moddolicous

Maybe AMD has a contract with NVIDIA or something? I find it very hard to believe that NVIDIA wouldn’t want to make a good chipset for the new Intels.
04-19-2006, 06:35 PM
cupholder2.0

Can anyone give me the moded drivers? I might try it with Dual 6800 GS if I get another. I am on a D955XBK (2 PCI-E). Anyway next build is going ATI for sure, hail CF!!.
04-19-2006, 07:39 PM
mine

Quote:

Originally Posted by freecableguy

This will remove nVidia from the ORB.

PR guys from nVidia, are you listening? I have owned 12 7800GTX/7900GTX cards in the last year. My last ATI purchase was an x850XT when it first came out. Guess who just bought a pair of x1900XTX cards for CF? Yep....this guy.

Here's what he really wanted to say: "Intel chipsets does not provide enough bandwidth money to support SLI"

FCG

slightly off topics but...

For the first time in years in the last months nVidia completely lost their highend HTPC customers to ATI. ATIs AVIVO technology is clearly superior
in terms of deinterlacing SD and HDTV footage , ATI delivers the first HDMI outs and analog VGA out is lightyears better (10 bit).

So for me , bye nVidia ..my PHD 8 Plasma enjoys ATI..
and shows it.
04-19-2006, 10:08 PM
incurable

The only thing I miss about nVidia and its cards is their drivers, or rather their drivers' control panel. ATi's CCC simply sucks, I learned to hate it in the past few months.

Other than that, I don't like those politics either, and the reply FUGGER got is a straigt out lie, I guess nVidia will need to learn the hard way where that gets them. Not into my new rig, that's for sure.
04-19-2006, 10:34 PM
skane

am i the only one suspecting that nv is working on a new chipset for conroe? if they are, at least it makes some kind of sense. if history repeats itself, their next intel chipset should be good, and by not enabling sli on intel chipsets, they are limiting competition.
04-19-2006, 10:55 PM
Sneaky

lmfao... not enough bandwidth

i saw a guy toss some 6600gt's on a p5wd2-premium 955x in SLI with hacked drivers and it dominated basically every single nvidia chipset based score out there with air cooling

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