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[Executor]

en taro adun Executor! welcome to XtremeSystems!

Pleasure to be here. It's nice to see someone who doesn't get my username confused with Executioner. I've seen two references to Executor, one in Starcraft and also the name of Darth Vader's flagship, the Super Star Destroyer. Can't decide from which my username originates.

[Geforce4ti4200]

hmm are they all pci express?

I think one of them is agp but I could be wrong. Man if none have agp this means agp is on its way out and I bet there will be alot of mad x800 and 6800 owners whos $400+ card is now pratically obsolete

[Sephir0th]

I think one of them is agp but I could be wrong. Man if none have agp this means agp is on its way out and I bet there will be alot of mad x800 and 6800 owners whos $400+ card is now pratically obsolete

does it need to be said again that the main purpose of nf4 is to introduce PCI-E? other than the extra sata support i dont think theres really much else different from nf3250gb

im also looking forward to all this stuff, tho who knows how long it'l take to get down to oz

i think my upgrade path will be 3200+ 90nm, dfi nf4 and 6600gt, with possibly another 6600gt down the road a bit.

[stelleg151]

don't you need 2 cpu's to run full SLI both in 16x mode?

SLI will split up the bandwidth to 8-8 I believe.

[Geforce4ti4200]

will there be any new mobos with agp? maybe improved nf3 or something? If not, agp is on its way out and would be a bad idea at this point to get a high end agp card

[squeakygeek]

does it need to be said again that the main purpose of nf4 is to introduce PCI-E? other than the extra sata support i dont think theres really much else different from nf3250gb

uh... that and about 185 pins... but who's counting?

pci-x angers me. i want agp.

[lalPOOO]

will there be any new mobos with agp? maybe improved nf3 or something? If not, agp is on its way out and would be a bad idea at this point to get a high end agp card

Especcially since once you buy something, you CANNOT sell it right?

New boards look sick
DFI really needs to hire an actual artist to do their Mobo boxes though, they look like junk atm.

[stayfrosty]

I like that tyan board with dual proc and sli possible to bad im not a multi-millionair.... at least not yet.

*note to self win the lottery next week*

[Geforce4ti4200]

by the time you sell your "old" agp 6800gt or x800pro, many people will have pci-e mobos and new cpus. whos gonna want to be stuck with an agp card they must use in their outdated mobo and cpu?

[mcnbns]

Geforce, please, just give it up. I have an AGP card, too, but I'm not terribly upset about all this PCIe talk. It's the natural order of hardware. Someday, everything dies...

[`schr0et]

Man, I can't beleive AMD changed from Slot A to Socket A what am I going to do with my Slot A processor? I'd be a waste to buy a Slot A processor when Socket A comes out.

Sound stupid?

[Schaef]

These boards look pretty nice, hopefully they are going to be available with the 6800gt by the end year with some sort of numbers so we will able to can get it. Cant wait to get rid of this rambus with the mobo which cant do 120fsb which I have had for nearly 3 years... Also with 13500+ views, seems nforce4/sli is creating alot of interest.

Get me some gskill and 3500+ and ill be lovin it :P

btw, love ya fourms and the community

[Trakfast11]

What's with the Chaintech ? Where's the dual channel ?

OK on second thoughts it could be a 754.

Hmmm.... from the looks of it, the board doesn't necessarily seem like it supports dual channel, but apparently it does (or atleast thats what the little words on the box to its right say.). guess its sort of like the nforce2 (only 3 memory slots), but atleast on the boards with the nforce2 chipset they put a larger gap between slots that were using different channels so you could easily see if you were running two memory modules on different channels or not.

[zeocrash]

What's the ETA for the DFI motherboard, it looks damn sexy, but i really don't want to wait anymore for my new pc

[Troopah]

Welcome to the sickness Schaef

Man I am loving the DFI board, love the looks of the board and all it's stuff that comes with it ^^
tho I have to agree, the box, they really need a decent artist to make a decent looking box.
Asus series had nice looking boxes :P at least the p4800 ^^

Can't wait til' I get my hands on 2x 6800Ultra PCIE and this nf4 board


Edit: schroet´, ya got that one right ;D was just gonna write a similar post :P
Geforce4, you're hilarious :P i love ur posts man

[Geforce4ti4200]

Geforce, please, just give it up. I have an AGP card, too, but I'm not terribly upset about all this PCIe talk. It's the natural order of hardware. Someday, everything dies...

If you just paid $500 for one and you cant use it in todays and tomorrows mobos and have to sell it for a loss, id be upset

[Mariachi]

The only things that worries me about this is SM4.0,
even 2x6800U Extreme Mega in SLI canno't help you in SM4.0 apps.
Please Microsoft please fail and release SM4.0 in 2007

[Mr. Tinker]

No the tower is on the back side,the guys looking at the back of his comp

no because you can see the back of the computer (psu, pci slots). Maybe it's a btx, right

[chile]

very nice mobos...i need (read: want) to upgrade sometime soon.

[luegner]

The Dual CPU Tyan board would be excellent but why only two 16x PCIe slots? If you're running SLI, then you can't stick in another PCIe card like maybe gigabit ethernet, that is unless they built it right and the onboard gigabit port runs off the PCIe bus.

[eclypse]

When in the piss is these things coming out? I thought everyone was saying mid Oct! Well its the end of October and nothing in sight.

[Beenthere]

Actually mid-November is the soonest any of these were suppose to be available based on reports in the past few months that I have read.

[Reflex1]

Just beacuse the board is SLI doesn't mean you have to get two video cards.

The DFI will work at 16x with one card, and 8x each with 2 cards. The only way to get 16x on each card is to use the dual CPU model, as it has two chips to power each slot. Anyways, that molex connector looks very intruging on the DFI, I wonder what it's for, maybe for 4v on RAM or something crazy?

does this mean u can use SLI @ 16x with the dual CPU TYAN board?

[bldegle2]

not really even on the 'cutting edge' AGP wise, this remark really just doesn't make sense.

"If you just paid $500 for one and you cant use it in todays and tomorrows mobos and have to sell it for a loss, id be upset"

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...

first of all, AGP is not going to die overnight/suddenly or disappear from the face of the earth, it will be around for several more years.

as far as PCI-e goes, it is going to be real hard for you to go cheap to 'get in', and i think that irks you more than the loss of AGP.

yes, it will diminish what you can get @Ebay for used AGP cards, so my advise is to clear your inventory of cards while you can at a decent price,................

save the money............... then get the best PCI-e card and motheboard/CPU you can with the proceeds, and move on.

baldy

[esuyengh]

Hi, I've been lurking on these forums for almost over a year now but just now registered to be able to converse more directly with certain forum regulars that I need help from.

Anyways, I have been reading and searching for as much on SLI boards as I can, and from what I have seen, it is implied that only ASUS and MSI will officially release boards by mid to late Nov. in North America. Official release does not mean wide availability and may lead to crazy costs. It seems like most other makers of interest are waiting for after the New Years.

In fact, in DFI-Street.com's forums, one of DFI's representatives posted in the forums that headquarters told him that current schedule places release of the LanParty SLI-D around Jan. 2005. He did say though that it is a "when it is done" situation meaning that it could be earlier or later. Just check under the "Ask DFI" thread on that page.