Page 1 of 1
NVIDIA SLI 2 Details Come Out
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:08 am
by Apoptosis
Rumors are coming from computex 2005 that NVIDIA is currently working on SLI 2. SLI 2 will offer twice the number of PCI Express lanes than the current nForce 4 chipsets. This is like combining two nForce 4 MCPs together to offer 32 PCIe lanes. We have heard from one manufacturer that they are building a ultimate nForce4 board that will offer two x16 slots running each running at full 16 PCIe lanes by using dual nForce 4 MCPs before SLI 2 officially arrives in 2006.
Talk about expensive motherboards...imagine dual chipsets on a highend enthusiast board... I'm guessing $250-$300 for the board alone!
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:27 am
by deadly-app
...And we still can't utilize the full pci -e bus
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:40 am
by LVCapo
Talk about expensive motherboards...imagine dual chipsets on a highend enthusiast board... I'm guessing $250-$300 for the board alone!
What are you talking about? We are already seeing outrageous prices for motherboard in the $240-300 range!
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:55 am
by -mogwai
yeah, i was kinda thinking the same thing, rich... but then you gotta take into account that it's gonna be coming out in 2006.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:29 pm
by Sovereign
So does this mean four GFX units *drools*?? AGP 8x isn't taxed out bandwidth wise (AFAIK) so what's with the full 32x PCI-E biz? That's 8GB/s upstream and downstream (4GB x 2 for SLI2...)
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:09 am
by teer
it is great news though. Worth starting to save now. hehe
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:48 am
by kenc51
deadly-app wrote:...And we still can't utilize the full pci -e bus
YET!!!
It's innovations like this which push the boundries... ;)