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Anonymous at 01:44am 03/5/2006
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Sorry if I don't take the time to register...
It annoys me when high profiles review sites doesn't get the facts
straight. Tom's were whining about the inferior south bridge all
their review, even if Asus is using the Uli...
And here it's mentioned a least two times that it's a shame that you
only get 1.4V for your CPU. This is NOT correct. You have two means
of adjusting vCPU on this board- the one that allows an increase of
up to 1.4 (I've read it should be up to 1.45).
Then you have a seperate over boost of 0.2V in an other setting.
This takes you to 1.6 (or 1.65 if what I've read is correct). This
should be enough for MOST people.
Please re-check and update review as apropriate. Else 'only FS
readers' will be mislead.
Apart from that- thanks for a good review.
/André
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TooNice at 09:24am 03/3/2006
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Cheers. But how about those who are not looking at getting either
crossfire or SLi (probably quite a few), but still wanting the bells
and whistles/overclocking performance you only get from those higher
end board?
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GX-Brandon at 04:26pm 03/2/2006
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Oops, forgot #15. Yes.
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GX-Brandon at 09:21am 03/3/2006
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#8: As you'll see over the course of the next few days, March is
going to end up as the busiest month for us on the hw-front probably
until June. I can't promise a follow-up, but I can promise that
you'll see X1600 XT CrossFire scores on this mobo very soon. I do
realize it's not quite the same as a follow-up story, but it's all I
can promise right now.
#10: SLI requires an nForce4 SLI mobo, the ASUS board won't work
for SLI, only CrossFire. Yes, you can use one card. In fact as I
mentioned in the article single-card is better on RD580 as you
longer need the transposer card. ATI SLI is not CrossFire. If you're
asking if you can run two CrossFire boards on nForce4 SLI, I think
the answer today is "no" but ATI has said that they could
adapt CrossFire to work on SLI mobos. They haven't done it yet
though to the best of my knowledge, I think they'd rather you buy
one of their CrossFire motherboards. :)
#11: 3dfx's dongles were easier to work with than ATIs. These are
very thick cables that sometimes have to be bent at awkward angles
(depending on the mobo used). You have to screw them down very tight
to all cards to ensure a proper fit, if not you could lose your
video signal or see corruption/color issues on screen. NVIDIA on the
other hand, all you do is connect one cable and you're good to go.
It's a one second installation versus a five minute one. Fortunately
you only have to do it once.
Not completely. NVIDIA provides SLI profiles for hundreds of games,
but for games that don't have native SLI driver support, you can
create your own custom SLI profile. ATI doesn't provide this option
at the moment. This probably effects sim
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Anonymous at 02:34pm 03/2/2006
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Can you stick 2 850xt pci-express vid cards into this thing?
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TooNice at 11:13am 03/2/2006
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And would you recommend this board over the A8N Premium or A8N32 if
you were do build a $400 per component PC?
(Refering to an older article)
On paper, it appears to have all the features of the A8N32, without
the 8 Phase/Heatpipes, but without a two chip design, and still
working passively.
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TooNice at 11:11am 03/2/2006
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Will there be a follow up?
Actually, how does it compare to the A8N-Premium in terms of layout?
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scottwilkins at 09:37am 03/2/2006
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FormallyAnonymous:
On the chipset requirement, yes, sorta. Just as nVidia SLI requires
nVidia chipset, so does ATI, almost.
ATI has teamed with Intel in the chipsets for their dual video. So
there are also some Intel chipset based boards that can use the
Crossfire solution. Where nVidia has to be 100% nVidia.
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scottwilkins at 09:34am 03/2/2006
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2 questions about article
1. What the ____ is wrong with dongles? Really? The original 3D
cards by 3DFX had them, so what? It works, and works well.
2. Doesn't the nVidia SLI solution also rely on drivers to fully
support two cards? So why mention the ATI requirement for this as a
problem also?
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Formerly Anonymous at 08:03am 03/2/2006
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Is it required to run in SLI?
Can I use just one ATI 1900?
Does running an ATI SLI setup require a ATI chipset mobo? Can I run
ATI SLI on a NF4?
These are unsolved questions lingering in my info-o'loaded brain.
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