The First Layout Photo of 780i

[dinos22]

If it clocks like stink with quad cores without any modding like p35 boards them I'm sold, my hopes are not high though.

donno about you but current D00 boards clock quads like Intel chipsets pretty much

[mdzcpa]

donno about you but current D00 boards clock quads like Intel chipsets pretty much

Agreed! *mike smiles as he looks at his new D00 board*

[Zytek_Fan]

If the shortcut they took limits bandwidth...then I won't plan on getting one.

It's prolly going to be the same for the next chipset for AMD...

[dinos22]

Agreed! *mike smiles as he looks at his new D00 board*

^^^^LOL^^^^

[[XC] gomeler]

Hmmm, I just hope that there isn't a bottleneck between this new chip and the chipset itself

[cookerjc]

Hmmm, I just hope that there isn't a bottleneck between this new chip and the chipset itself

who konws.. no one have a PCIe Gen2 card...even if there is a bottleneck we wont notice

[G.Foyle]

Are you sure that it's 780i, not just 680i with tri-sli enabled?

[XS Janus]

At those fans!

This one needs to be build and added in the boiler room, the winter is comming!

[cookerjc]

Are you sure that it's 780i, not just 680i with tri-sli enabled?

I am quite sure.
"someone" told me that the only funtion of the BR04 is to enable the PCIe Gen2.

so the old 680i sli also can play three-some ,but it is in PCIe Gen1...

[strange|ife]

nice to see some robust active cooling

if this sucker is rock stable at launch i might consider it.

i have a bad taste in my mouth from 680 though.

[Nickel020]

Well by the time you need the bandwidth that PCI-E 2.0 provides but 1.0 doesn't not many should be using one of those boards anymore. Point is, who cares about PCI-E 2.0 for anything else than e-peen?

Na look at the size of that brige chip compared to the NB itself, it can't be just a bridge chip. And who knows if it's even a bridge chip. Nvidia might have some other interface (think Hypertransport) so the 16x "PCI-E 2.0" aren't connected via the 16x 1.0 interface but something else.

[G.Foyle]

Na look at the size of that brige chip compared to the NB itself, it can't be just a bridge chip. And who knows if it's even a bridge chip. Nvidia might have some other interface (think Hypertransport) so the 16x "PCI-E 2.0" aren't connected via the 16x 1.0 interface but something else.

That would make sense, but since when does nVidia make sense?

[AliG]

man, this is dissapointing, I thought nv said they had an ace up their sleeve to combat x38 and p35? Everyone knows p35 and x38 are way above 680i, and last time I checked x38 will be able to do 4 way xfire once ati gets the driver working

[Shintai]

Even tho this is pisspoor at best by nVidia. It wont limit anything.

Try compare a single PCIe 2.0 x16 to the FSB

[AliG]

yeah, but still, I was hoping for more

[stevecs]

argh. Only 3 full PCIe slots? When will they come out w/ a system with more than 48 channels (really want a full 64 with at least 5 pcie).

[OBR]

i told it before a week ... 780i SLI is only 680i SLI + PCI Express 2.0 chip ...

[STaRGaZeR]

This solution is crap, but NVIDIA really doesn´t care IMO. They will sell lots of this WTF chips because of SLi exclusive. And that sucks. Please, SLi on Intel chipsets NOW! (without NVIDIA MCP )

[JacKz5o]

No heatpipes on next-gen motherboards? :p

[BulldogPO]

Yes, all nvidia fans will be moving to CF soon....

[Krelin]

Well, i think the engineer's from nVidia aren't so dumb, it probably more easily to make a bridge to enable PCI E 2, that to make a fully-new chipset.

[Cooper]

That heatsink on NB is good enough to cool current dual-cores

[rozzyroz]

man, this is dissapointing, I thought nv said they had an ace up their sleeve to combat x38 and p35?

yeah, its called "dont allow sli on intel chipsets". i have to switch out of my sli setup on my 975 chipset because nvidia wont give any support for it on intel chipsets... the old hacked driver doesnt work on vista or 8000 series cards...

the hd2900pro is looking pretty sweet to me right now

[Nickel020]

Everyone's complaining about how poor this is yet nobody hast tested it yet. Wait till you see it's performance, it's likely a new 680i Stepping so overclocking will be better, and maybe performance.
And I dare to predict that PCI-E 2.0 performance won't be noticeably worse than on the X38. I mean Nvidia is the company to release the fist PCI-E 2.0 cards, and they wouldn't re-release the 680i if the perfromance sucked, better release nothing than if that were the case.

And in the end you should be happy that they didn't develop a new chipset when they didn't have to, because we, the consumers, would have paid the money that chip's development would have cost.

[Periander6]

A new nVIDIA chipset to ignore.

Oh please Intel, buy nVIDIA and let us make SLI with Intel chipsets!!

Heh, the only way Jen-Hsun would let Nvidia get bought out is if he were to run the combined company. Nv is just going to continue with this SLI stubborness and stupidity until it hurts them in the pocketbook. With a single slot 2900xt performing card that isn't a power/heat hog coming from AMD shortly, that may actually come to pass sooner than Nvidia wishes. CF is going to be the clear choice over SLI.