Dual PCIE from VIA

[davepermen]

I agree, the only point in using dual peg is to have otherwise impossible to acieve performance levels with 2 top of the line video cards. The sli mid range solution does not make sense.

it does make sence. if you have a motherboard as option that allows two gpu's, you can just buy a midrange one, and later upgrade by buying just another one. there isn't a more simple way to (nearly) double your performance afterwards.. (and if you wait half a year/one year, till you get your second card, it's even low end by now, so hell cheap, and you get an ultra boost in speed)

 

[vb]

it does make sence. if you have a motherboard as option that allows two gpu's, you can just buy a midrange one, and later upgrade by buying just another one. there isn't a more simple way to (nearly) double your performance afterwards.. (and if you wait half a year/one year, till you get your second card, it's even low end by now, so hell cheap, and you get an ultra boost in speed)

Or you can buy a cheaper MB with one PCI-E 16x and get the high-end GPU

 

[davepermen]

and to upgrade, you will have to pay a year later a horrend price again for another highest end gpu, and drop the other, previous expensive card, too.


they should design x8 cards, not only x16 then we could have 4 of them in parallel, or similar..

oh wait, thats.. *shhh* (dave, shut up! )

 

[trinibwoy]

Or you can buy a cheaper MB with one PCI-E 16x and get the high-end GPU

I'm so glad you said 'or'. That means that you admit SLI is an option to consider.

Given the latest news from the INQ about the different flavors of Nforce4 - how much more do you think mobo manufacturers are going to charge for the Nforce4 SLI version?

 

[KimB]

And since bus bandwidth typically isn't a large limiter of performance for video cards, I don't see how this is a problem.

I guess his point was that given the way nVidia "implemented" SLI with nForce4, every other chipset supporting a single PEG-link would be just as capable, which kinda takes away CK8-04's unique selling point.

I'm not so sure. The nForce4 is capable of operating both at 1x16 and 2x8, and I don't know if other chipsets will be able to switch between modes like this: if the chipset isn't designed for anything but 1x16 operation, you may need to always have it set to 2x8 operation if you want two slots.

 

[Mariner]

I'm not so sure. The nForce4 is capable of operating both at 1x16 and 2x8, and I don't know if other chipsets will be able to switch between modes like this: if the chipset isn't designed for anything but 1x16 operation, you may need to always have it set to 2x8 operation if you want two slots.

Have we heard one way or the other what any of the other rumoured SLI chipsets support? In fact, have we even heard officially what nForce4 supports or is it all just rumour at the moment?

Its obvious that nForce4 will have support for dual-PEG but I think it's probably too early to say exactly how this will be implemented (unless these news stories are correct). Am I right in thinking that Tumwater (sp?) will support Dual-PEG but with one full 16-lane slot + one 16-lane slot but with 8-lane support? Any ideas what VIA intends to implement?