conroe and SLI

[howlingblue]

Sigh, I have the feeling this has been asked a few times, but I need to know......

I've been looking to get a conroe since it came out, but I've heard that they either overclock well and lack SLI support, or vice-versa.....

Since I heard that there would be new mobos for conroe out about this time, I was curious if there's a good midpoint for both of these, or one that does both well, either out currently or scheduled to come out.

Thanks for any help!

 

[FireChicken]

The nforce 570 are out and you can run sli on those but if you do you will only get 8X per pcie slot. There boards are also not good for OCing. The new 590scoming in the next week or so might be a bit better for OCing but not by much. Hope fully the anadtech reviews will be out shortly. But even newer 590s are supposed to be out in nov. No one know how these will OC as they have a new nvidia chip in them.

 

[Skott]

The 590 Conroe/SLI mobos have been delayed apparently due to a chipset (C19) on the mobos not being of good quality for overclocking. nVidia is saying another 3 months before the new chipset (C55) is ready. DFI already announced their cancellation of this month's launch. Doesnt look good for Conreo/SLI mobos right now.

 

[ojingoh]

intel 975 chipsets have the pcie controller to allocate more pipes, also they have 2x 16x slots. they can do crossfire/ati out of the box. unfortunately as you have seen you are s.o.l. when it comes to official support from both intel and nvidia w/r/t sli support.

evidently there were some hacks to the drivers floating around where you could run sli on an intel chipset, but they are kind of behind the official drivers.

i read about them here