NVIDIA SLI 2 Details Come Out

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:08 am

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!

deadly-app · Post by **deadly-app** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:27 am

...And we still can't utilize the full pci -e bus

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:40 am

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!

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:55 am

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.

Sovereign · Post by **Sovereign** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:29 pm

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...)

teer · Post by **teer** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:09 am

it is great news though. Worth starting to save now. hehe

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:48 am

deadly-app wrote:...And we still can't utilize the full pci -e bus

YET!!!

It's innovations like this which push the boundries... ;)