ati wakes up & smells the coffee. [Archive]

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mike2h

10-30-04, 07:51 PM

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20041030045717.html
interesting read. wonder if the bit about the memo is true.

jAkUp

10-30-04, 07:53 PM

Doesn't look like this belongs in the NV section.....

/moved

mike2h

10-30-04, 08:09 PM

well i was wondering about that but since it deals with ati following nvidias lead & the possible memo concerning nvidia i thought it was a 50/50 deal & put it there.
figured more people would get the info there.
anyway, sorry if it was not appropriate.

Kojiro

10-30-04, 08:34 PM

it just means that ATI users must upgrade gpu when sm3.0 becomes standard while nvidia geforce 6 series users don't have to.

As for SLI, only nvidia mobos will support it anyways. This means no SLI for Intel users. ATi don't need to worry about that at the moment since most users have AGP instead of PCI-E. But i think ATI wishes they though of it first.

GlowStick

10-31-04, 12:44 AM

mike2h

10-31-04, 01:18 AM

intel boards DO NOT support sli. nvidia suports it with their sli enabled boards, alienware supports it with their propiatery setup. if it is ever realised.

GlowStick

10-31-04, 02:37 AM

intel boards DO NOT support sli. nvidia suports it with their sli enabled boards, alienware supports it with their propiatery setup. if it is ever realised.
Yes they do.

If you order Alienwares SLi setup today, you get an INTEL motherboard.

All Nvidia tech previews were shown on the same INTEL motherboard.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=8456&stc=1

Notice the Dual Xeon's

KTHXBY

Diamond_G

10-31-04, 03:16 AM

is that a watercooled system?

Lindy

10-31-04, 03:37 AM

intel boards DO NOT support sli. nvidia suports it with their sli enabled boards, alienware supports it with their propiatery setup. if it is ever realised.

The only working (as not in beta waiting for the silicon rev) SLI mobo is Intel.

Technical Specifications

Area-51 ALX with NVIDIA SLI Technology:

Processors
Intel® Xeon™ Processor with Hyper-Threading and EM64T Technology Up to 3.6GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB full-speed Level 2 Cache

Chipset
Intel® E7525 chipset

micron

10-31-04, 05:21 AM

Yes they do.

If you order Alienwares SLi setup today, you get an INTEL motherboard.

All Nvidia tech previews were shown on the same INTEL motherboard.

Notice the Dual Xeon's

KTHXBY

Pwnd.

Dazz

10-31-04, 05:24 AM

is that a watercooled system?
Yes all their SLI systems are water cooled hence the price.

crainger

10-31-04, 07:31 AM

Yes they do.

If you order Alienwares SLi setup today, you get an INTEL motherboard.

All Nvidia tech previews were shown on the same INTEL motherboard.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=8456&stc=1

Notice the Dual Xeon's

KTHXBY

Damn thats a sweet machine.

Has anyone in Australia successfully recieved one? I know its possible to get their laptops here. But what about the desktops?

Opps Off-topic sorry
:retard:

anzak

10-31-04, 11:30 AM

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=8456&stc=1

:drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling: :drooling:

Fatman

11-01-04, 02:56 AM

AFAIK the mobos Alienware used were custom made based on Intel chipset. Water cooled and powered by 800 watt PSU. Some close-up shots:

pic 1 (http://mysite.verizon.net/madlad/pics/IMG_0110.jpg)

pic 2 (http://mysite.verizon.net/madlad/pics/IMG_0111.jpg)

pic 3 (http://mysite.verizon.net/madlad/pics/IMG_0112.jpg)

mike2h

11-01-04, 03:19 AM

i did not make that clear. sorry. sli is a propriatery tech from nvidia. intel supplies the mb with 2 slots. but does not support or have anything to do with sli. if ati came up with something similar you could put 2 ati cards in that intel mb.
lindys post pretty much tells it how it is - "Area-51 ALX with NVIDIA SLI Technology."
no big deal. as long as it works:)
cool setup!