nforce4 and related general questions

[Tommunist]

I've been trying to follow all that's going on in the nForce4 world as best I can but there are some things I'm not all that sure about....

1. What are the various trim levels of the board and what are differences/advantages?

2. Is this faster HT technology really important? - something about 4x and 5x??? (or maybe only important to people OCing?)

3. Is running one GPU on an SLI board worse than running one GPU on a non-SLI board?

4. Does it look like ATI will be releasing SLI enabled cards soon? (not directly about nforce4 but "related")

5. Who else is tired of waiting for all of this sh!te to be in stores so we have some real options?


Many thanks to those in the know who take the time to clear these things up.

 

[NarcoticHobo]

1. There is Nforce4, Nforce4 Ultra, and Nforce4 SLI

Nforce4 is basically Nforce3 250 with PCIe

Ultra has things like activearmor and 8x SATA and general improvements like that.

SLI is ultra with 2x pcie 16x slots.

2. 4x HTT will give you a 1600mhz bus effective whereas 5x HTT will give you a 2000mhz bus effective for the same base 200FSB. Apparently there isn't a huge difference, so this is mostly important to overclockers.

3. a single GPU on an SLI board should not perform worse than a single GPU on a non sli board.

4. ATI will do somethingg called Multi-rendering technology (i think) with their next video card release, which should be in the 2Q of this year.

5. Everyone.

 

[carlivar]

Originally posted by: NarcoticHobo
SLI is ultra with 2x pcie 16x slots.

No, I'm pretty sure SLI so far is ultra with 2x pcie 8x slots.

 

[NarcoticHobo]

it is 2x 16xpcie physical slots, however the speed when using sli is the equivalent of 2x 8x slots.

 

[Tommunist]

Sounds like the new ATI technology is far off. If they 2nd Q it will probably be 3rd or 4th. Thanks for the info though - now it's just time to wait for some options.....