LGA and Dual Graphics! *shock* who'd ever have thought it. I was right though!! I *knew* they wouldnt spend money developing a southbridge - theyve got ICH6 on it (its only reference though). http://www.hothardware.com/#news584 No PCIe x1 though, looks like 2 solid x16 slots so all the 32 PCIe lanes are used. Even though there's no PCIe x1 stuff out atm (worth mentioning) it still seems a little un-futureproof. Shame youll have to use a prescott in it unless you can afford an expensive edition. Doesnt mention what the northbridge is capable of and what memory it uses though. From the pic, im guessing.. DDR2 - the middle slots look smaller than DDR notches and the board doesnt feature any advanced sound (only 3 3.5mm jacks) and its got realtek 10/100 and what looks like Intels gigabit. Unless its PHY to the nforce 5 MCH itll be PCI through. Again though, its a pre-production board.
Looks quite interesting really, shame they haven't put more than 4 SATA ports on it though (we should be seeing optical drives coming in properly soon i should imagine.) but i'm sure we'll see some 3rd party controllers come in from the individual manufacturers. Strange how they put a PCI slot between the two PCI-E 16x slots though, i doubt it'll get used if there's 2 vid. cards in there really.
No pci-e 1x? What on earth is nVidia thinking (not much I assume)? Blast, and I was thinking this was going to be a really nice board.
I dont think this is cause for concern, yo-DUH; afterall, this is a prototype board, and Im sure that they can replace the PCI slots with 1x slots of they feel like it.
Yea, id like to emphasise this is NOT a retail board, its a pre-production engineering sample. The thing is they cant put in x1 slots unless they do what they do with nforce 4 sli boards and make the onboard converter between 2x x8 or 1x x16. With 2x hardwired x16 slots they've used up all the 32 avaliable PCIe lanes supported.
That is what I'm refering to. True true, but the hardware limitations do not bode well. Hopefully they will get a few things figured out between now and the release
Ah yes. Now it would appear that on closer analysing of the high-res images by the peeps, they think it's an all-Intel board with only 20 of the PCIe lanes used for graphics (16x and then a 2/4x apparently... though i don't know how that would work tbh
I doubt their "closer inspection" means anything; Intel and Nvidia did a big tech licensing agreement recently. Besides that; http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20607 http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20592 Besides that, Intel not announcing an Intel chipset that supported dual graphics just like nforce 4 would be absurd on their PR part; we all know that marketing forms the backbone of Intel. Besides that, if they used up literally all of the PCI Express lanes on graphics, how would they wire up the PCI bus? Good god, talk about repetition... I said "besides that" four times
