|  | | EVGA Launches nForce 780i SLI FTW Motherboard |
EVGA Corporation announced the release of a new flagship gaming motherboard for Intel platform: nForce 780i SLI FTW with enhanced features for scalability in extreme overclocking and stability under high voltage load. EVGA nForce 780i SLI FTW offers features such as unique power management to provide clean and stable power under extreme high voltage load and all solid-state capacitors for extended durability as well as a proprietary hybrid cooling solution with a built-in water block that supports either liquid or air cooling.
It also features 2 Gigabit Ethernets, 8-channel HD audio and 8 SATA II ports instead of 6 on reference board. With three 16x PCI-Express slots and PCI-Express 2.0 support, nForce 780i SLI FTW has all the features a true gamer can ask for including support for the newest 45nm Intel microprocessors and 3-way SLI (Scalable Link Interface) allowing three similar graphics cards to operate in unison to boost graphics processing performance. | | 5 Comments | | | Would it make sense to have 2 graphics cards and put a Physix Ageia (spell?) into the third 16x PCI Express slot? | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jabout  Would it make sense to have 2 graphics cards and put a Physix Ageia (spell?) into the third 16x PCI Express slot? | Neat idea but being an NForce chipset your soul would be sold to NVidia and SLI without proper unsupported patches your third card wouldn't run.
Or is this SLI supporting other types of video cards the wording is hard to interpret. Would like to see more info on this !! |
Last edited by Mac Daddy; January 10th, 2008 at 01:20 AM..
| Quote | | | | | 3 way SLI is only supported with 8800 GTXs and Ultras, and the as yet unnannounced 9800 series due in Q1-Q2 2008. Normal SLI continues to be valid on the first two 16x lanes (under the PCIe 2 chipset) the third PCIe 16x slot is actually electrically a PCIe 1.1 slot. 3 way sli will work with the correct bridges and cards, but essentially, this third slot can be used for any PCIe card (even short PCIe 1x network/sound cards).
so to answer the above, a physx card would be ideal in this slot, although its overkill, cos the bandwidth they require is fully available to a normal PCI slot or PCIe 1x slot. | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by graigchq 3 way SLI is only supported with 8800 GTXs and Ultras, and the as yet unnannounced 9800 series due in Q1-Q2 2008. Normal SLI continues to be valid on the first two 16x lanes (under the PCIe 2 chipset) the third PCIe 16x slot is actually electrically a PCIe 1.1 slot. 3 way sli will work with the correct bridges and cards, but essentially, this third slot can be used for any PCIe card (even short PCIe 1x network/sound cards).
so to answer the above, a physx card would be ideal in this slot, although its overkill, cos the bandwidth they require is fully available to a normal PCI slot or PCIe 1x slot. | Thank you for the clarification and the informative post  | | | | Does this mobo run fully 16x / 16x / 16x | |
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