XS Unite to get official SLI drivers for Intel

[beast-usa]

I think that a better purchase would of been a 680i based motherboard and 2x 8800GTS 320MB units.

I think with the release of that board Nvidia did finally do something right as performance is equal to best 975 boards around.

Your kidding right? The 680die board?
I tried EVGA, Abit, Asus ....... after 10 sets of memory.
Corsair, GeIL, OCZ, Crucial, Muskin & 4 board RMA's
....... I went back to Abit AW9D-Max 975i, faster raid anyway
on four drives, and it can handle 9 internal drives.

Do you look at benchmarks?
Not to mention...high numbers on my nvidia cards under phase cooling
look like...well poo. On the ATI cards 27K on 3D05 looks like watching
a HD DVD ....... no way to make the ATI cards drop quality for speed.

8800GTS's how about 8800 GTX's SC or Ultra's?
Not that it matters if your a nvidia fanboy your mind will never
change. But the 2900's are way under rated for having all the
world records on futuremark. I really have loved nvidia cards
since the TI4800's but being stuck with their junk chipset just to
use their cards! If the X38 can do SLI or CF I may still stay with ATI,
not sure yet.

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[maverik-sg1]

Well thanks for that attack - much appreciated.

Not a fanboy just looking at the overall picture:

Firstly it's now 2007 nearly 2008 - must we still look at 3dm05?

I accept what you are saying and everyone has personal preferences, at this point in time I chose Nvidia over AMD.

In a world where phase cooling, DI or Liquid nitorgen cooling is not something that everyone uses - Consider under air or even regular watercooling that people will use for gaming and normal PC use and the AMD GPU's have a distinct set of flaws:

Consume too much power (much more than 8800 ultra for example)
Generate too much heat (see above)

What I am trying to say is that with the extra heat and power consumtpion using the cooling that 99% of the global population engage in (regular air or water cooling) the current AMD Line up will not live up to the hype generated in your post - certainly not much room to overclock or in real gaming perormance - it's no secret that todays cards (even the best ones) are not up to true DX10 gaming performance.

In a world where we should all be doing our part to prevent global warming these factors 'should' be considered when purchasing any new products (not just PC parts) and in all honesty AMD have been weighed measured and left wanting in all this - hence why their fastest product is priced against the GTS.

I don't dispute you claims about WR's etc.... but those are in abnormal conditions that regular joe's simply do not use - couple that with driver tweaks, personal tweaks etc and the result is often skewed to what the real world results would be.

In the same way I embraced core 2 back in september last year after 4 years of AMD A64, I would swap my Nvidia cards in a heartbeat if I really thought there was something better out there.

I apologise for going off topic here somewhat as this thread is not about all that.

[beast-usa]

Well not meant as an attack sorry

I just hear the same stuff from all the fanboys.

They are slower, hotter, eat to much power

I use water & phase on the cpu, my video is always air.

I just don't see it my cards
XFX 7800 GTX ..........35C NF4 SLI (cost $850)
XFX 7900 GTX EE ......43C Intel SLI (cost $1300)
XFX 7950 GTX2 EE......65C Intel SLI (cost $1650)
ATI X1900XT ............60C CF.........(cost $922)
Sapphire HD2900XT....43C CF.........(cost $987)

Power hungry well kind of...they just need clean power.

Benchmarks you can't tweak them.....that's what I was saying.
All run HD DVD quality LOL
Water CPU & Air video (they did hit 49C)
3D05 24609
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=3354006

So as you can see from all my cards in only couple years.
Nvidia is by far my favorite, but these new 2900 are just good
cards. And people just need to see it's the truth.

Again no attack sorry about that........

I to begged nvidia to release the drivers, I sat on those 79's & 7950's
so long just in-case they did......I just wasn't willing to spend $1800+
to end up hacking drivers to work. So I went ATI and I'm very pleased
with the cards.