Unless, of course, if your cpu is running @ 3.9G :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
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Unless, of course, if your cpu is running @ 3.9G :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
This mobo sound great, but i aint gonna sell my ultra-d off when it work great for me, maybe in the next 2+ or something. i know for sure i keeping my mobo.
I'll be buying one :D
i tell you what. If vendor can get a good OC board based on this chipset out by the beginnning of July, I will be ALL over this. :D If I could get my hands on an MVP board, that be a awesome bonus, but any board would do.
Now this is infos, thank you for this Grayskull.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
Yeah, i know but as you know probably better than me i wouldn't get an answer but don't get me wrong, i'm glad you brought this all to us. It's just that the excitement that this brings comes along with the frustration of not even knowing if the product will make it to market or when.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
Really looking forward for that promising piece of work, please hurry up :D
Ok, here is some hope.
I do not remember reading this article anywhere, but if there time frame is correct the boards should be comming out anytime now.
The Inquirer
Looks like ECS is on the band wagon.
Elite Bastards
Shuttle too!! The Tech report
Yeah I just saw that board and am wondering if it will oc at all cause If it will I would jump on it. I want to make a sff unit for lanning but man I just gotta be able to at least squeeze a couple hundred mghz out of my sys o r it just dont feel right. What about ECS RS480-M motherboard Grayskull?Quote:
Originally Posted by bypolar
that shuttle board looks fun...
Some info.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23060
I almost dont want to upgrade yet now :slobber:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ubermann
Thats great and all...but we have yet to confirm if ALL X800/X850/X700 PCI-E will be Multi GPU capable or will there be special versions of these cards we have to buy :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ubermann
Perkam
Do we need special 6800s to run in SLI? No. As long as they're PCI-E everything's happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by perkam
I really doubt ATi would be stupid enough to make people buy special cards to run in multi-GPU configs. I'm guessing any PCI-E ATi card will be able to do it, right from the X700 Pro to R520. That way ATi will be able to compete with nVidia on the low end dual card arena and on the high end.
:2cents:
I got a new sapphire x850xt pe here but no motherboard.
I hope they will work with AMR and maybe they drop in price when R520 is released so i can buy another one.
If amr will be good that is, if its same performance as nvidia sli i will skip it.
I read about master and slave cards today, with dongle back like voodoo had.
Inq had that info i think.
Dont know what to think now. Mentions 'external adapter"....as I said long ago, you can easily "SLI" two ATI cards by using a DVI dongle with some circuitry in it and a tweak to the driver SW to have 1/2 frame done on each board, and the "master" board setting the V/Hsync timings.
I was hoping ATI would use the power of PCIe to unleash a no dongle equivalent function. The PCIe bus is fast enough to allow some of the x16 lanes to be used for CARD-to-CARD transfer of the completed frame buffer work from the slave over to the master.
IE: x16.... means 16 lanes of data, SLI splits it to x8 and x8 for two 6800's, and further uses a bridge board to connect the framebuffer output of the slave to the master. But you could easily do x6 and x6 leaving x2 (from each card, tied together) lanes for this bridging function right on the current SLI motherboards.....only difference would be the NVidia "dimm" board (or for DFI boards, a different set of "JUMPER BLOCKS" to assign the x16-to x?? scheme).
Perhaps a bios flash might be needed to tell the X800-PCIe board about the new x6/x2 or x4/x4 arrangement for proper bootup. But most of the work would be done in a driver change.
Each PCIe lane is good for 100 Mbps transfer rate. So 1/2 a 1920x1200 frame would be the max amount of data being sent (the other 1/2 frame buffer is on the master already). So dedicating x4 lanes from each card would yeild 400Mbps connection between cards, x2 would yeild 200Mbps.
PCIe is x16 lanes to the video, SLI breaks it into (2) x8 lanes, ATI could further divide it into (2) x4 [from CPU/NB to videocard] and (2) x4 [from videocard to videocard, tied together so its really only x4 total].
Just a thought.
I'm getting worried, my time to upgrade is soon approaching, and I want this board!!
ordered that board from newegg ($82) will be showing up tomorrow (5/12) to put in aspire cube case. matched with 3500 venice (or 3500 winny if it doesnt recognize my venice core) 2x 512mb pqi turbo and either 6800gt or x850xt(have both, havent decided yet) tv tuner and maxtor 300gb 16mb cache ncq drive. hope wimpy psu that comes with case can handle it. might have to back off to evga 6600gt i have laying around here. case comes tomorrow also. i hear might just be enough space for small atx psu. hopefully this is true. let you know how it works out.Quote:
Originally Posted by bypolar
btw the elite b*stards link doesnt mention that this is a microatx board.
very truly yours,
politenessman
edit - gone from newegg!! but mine definitely on the way, shipped 5/9 with the venice core. they are still selling an msi radeon xpress 200 microatx board tho.
this board is already in stock for sale in japan,Quote:
Originally Posted by bypolar
Im anxious to hear your results.Quote:
Originally Posted by politenessman
got it!! came 1 day early with my oem 3500 venice -
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aspire case wont be here until tomorrow (unless that comes early too )
but wil put it on bench and fire it up a little later. not expecting great things - probably not an overclocker's bios, butthe 11x multi on the 3500 should help out. let you know how it works out.
very truly yours,
politenessman
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Originally Posted by AMD-me
Same here :stick:
I waited and waited, then ordered an DFI.
hehe. Yeah thats the same boat I'm in. The time to start ordering everything for my new rig is drawing near(early June), and I'd honestly like to run this ATi mobo assuming the performance is there. But it really doesnt look like its gonna make it in time, and I'll probably end up ordering a DFI Ultra-D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ubermann
Still holding out a bit of hope that Computex will bring forth the release(no paper launch, please) of the full production versions, although that seems doubtful. :(