Im sure not everyone checks The Inquirer on a regular basis, but theyve pointed out an interesting article from HKEPC on the K8N Neo Diamond+, which uses the new Nvidia 6150 chipset. Even though its in Kana and has no benchmarks, the pictures are rather interesting. http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/c51-firstlook-5.htm (Im hosting these on imageshack, just fyi)
So basically its an NF4 SLI board with a nvidia 6150 hardwired to it. imho its quite silly... anyone wanting SLI wouldn't use the onboard, and anyone who wants onboard to save costs, surely doesn't want to be paying a premium for an SLI capable board? GG MSI. you win the prize. A nice cheap board (assuming this MSI isn't going to be cheap - and i assume it won't seeing as you require two chipsets...) with 6150 would make a kickass lite gaming PC though \o/
The point I was trying to make is that the 6150 is compatible with a range of chipsets. There actually IS a market for this kind of board, and I am one of those people who is interested in the board. I am working on a tight budget, and I am looking to upgrade to SLI in the future. However, I dont want to shell out for a video card that Im just going to aim to replace ASAP simply because I cannot afford an expensive card. Have you looked at that white Saphire board? It has integrated graphics as well, even though its a high end enthusiast chipset; its not as silly as it looks. Other points of interest include: No SLI mode jumpers or switches 8 pin and 24 pin power connectors are necessary The yellow PCI-E 4x slot is not backed
I edited my post. It seemed like i bashing the 6150, but i was just bashing MSI (though i own a Neo2 and love it anyway, MSI are so random at times)... Anyway, how is 24pin not nessesary? we can't stay on 20 pin forever, mobo manufacturers have to step up at some stage, even if it isn't entirely nessesary. the 4x slot is probably not due to the fact that it is intentionally for a 16x card (but still can be if you want to, but probably due to the fact that MSI use those exact sockets on other boards and probably have extra stock of them. These non backed 4x slots are becoming pretty standard fare on motherboards now (and thats a good thing! ) Another thing to note is that BOTH white "x16" slots are marked as x16. True that on the Sapphire board, although that board was purely ATI ewang imho as it was never mass produced.
