DFI to launch mATX SLI and CrossFire motherboards...

[craigbru]

It may be from Fudzilla, but it sounds legit.  Let the fun begin!


http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5214&Itemid=1

[phinix]

I just saw it on fudzilla.. OOOOww I hope its true... can you imagine new 98xx series in sli? mmmm..... Now I'm sooo happy I chose to build my cube in mATX size:)

[adadk]

Just as long as these DFI boards can support 2 dual-slot cards. They could be jerks and only allow single-slots.

[hugh]

why would they do that? regardless where they put them they would have the same amount of slots.

any marketing analyst saying they'd be shooting themself if they tried to corner a niche market with an intentionally crippled product

[REMF]

looks good.

[darkdog]

So when a company goes to release a product such as this, would they include built in video?  This would be useless wouldn't it seeing as its built to handle two video cards on purpose.

I'm interested in this more for the fact that Nvidia's plans on running a physics engine (Ageia technology) in their GPU's.  My purchase of a motherboard maybe delayed until I see more details regarding this matx motherboard....

A quad system based on two 8800GT's, a sound card that can handle Dolby Digital Live, and a wireless Card, all packed into a small SG03 with modifications and a carry around LCD Monitor makes me a happy portable computer person with extra cash on hand since he did not go and buy a high end gaming laptop for twice the price.  If that was the case, I'd still be saving up for it.

[hugh]

the majority of matx motherboards have onboard video but as you say, i can't see a lot of people buying something like this for microsoft office but you'll probably see onboard dvi or hdmi just so they can boost the price and tout features

[MrbLOB9000]

all of nvidia's new SLI chipsets will have onboard video for Hybrid SLI support.

[darkdog]

This would be interesting if the Hybrid SLI chipset motherboard came with 2 PCIe 16x slots to do true SLI plus the hybrid SLI.

This would allow you the power of two higher end video boards plus the additional help of the built in motherboard video (not sure how much help it can be...).  As well, when not using the video's full potential (surfing or working away in Open Office), the two dedicated video cards would be shut down, using only the built in video.

I'd be cool with this.  I'm just not convinced that SLI'ing a dedicated video card with the built in motherboard video would gain that much.  Would it?

[tominated]

any update on this? If it does come true, I may not have to wait for the w/c shuttle sx48p2

[phinix]

My favourite one... DFI LP JR P45-T2RS . Shame we won't get any SLi mATX mobo, but this mobo may be the reason to jump to ATI cards fist time in my life... For example two 4850 n crossfire - some people say they would be equal to 8800Ultras in SLI... then after a few months jump to 2die 4870 and put two of these... may be pretty powerful, don't you think?







Specs:

Chipset INTEL® P45+ICH10R
CPU
* Socket-775 for Intel Core TM2 Quad, Core TM 2 Duo, Core TM2 Extreme
*Socket-775 for Intel Pentium® D
* 4 Phase digital PWM
FSB
* 800/1066/1333 MHz
Memory
* 128-bit Dual-channel memory architecture
* 4 240-pin DDRII DIMM sockets max 8GB
* Supports unbuffered, single/double-side DDR2 533/667/800 DIMMs
* Supports x8/x16, non-ECC and up to 1Gb DDRII devices
Expansion Slots
* 1 x16 or 2 x16 Graphic Slots in 2 x8 lanes by IC switch
* 2 PCIe x1
* 2 PCI slots
Storage
* 1 Floppy port
* 1 parallel IDE ports with up to 133Mbps UltraDMA
* 6 serial SATAII ports with up to 3Gbs
* Support INTEL SATAII with RAID 0/1/0+1/5
* JMB 368 supports 1 IDE port
USB
* 12 USB2.0 ports
Audio
* Realtek ALC885 for 8CH HD audio CODEC
LAN
* 1 GbE LAN by Marvell 8053
Legacy I/O 􀁺 IT8718F-S
* Hardware Monitoring:
CPU/System temperature sensing w/ overheating alarm CPU
overheating protection during system boot-up
12v/5v/3.3v/Vcore/Vdimm/Vnb/Vbat/5Vsb voltages sensing
Current drive CPU temperature sensing
3 Fan speed sensing and 1 Linear fan speed control for CPU fan
Back panel I/O
* 1 x PS2 mouse, 1 x PS2 keyboard
* 2 USB2.0 ports, 1 x RJ45
*4 USB2.0 ports
Other Onboard Connectors
* 3 USB header for 6 USB2.0 ports
* 1 5x1-pin for IRDA header
* 1 4-pin FAN connector for CPU, 2 3-pin FAN for Chipset, 3 3-pin FAN for system
* 1 COM
* 24-pin ATX and 8-pin ATX power connectors
* Standby LED, S3 LED
* EZ-On and EZ-Touch switches for onboard power on and reset
* 10x2-pin front panel headers (IDE LED, Power LED, Power switch, Reset button,

[phinix]

So that DFi mobo looks pretty cool now, when today we can read Radeon 4870 reviews... Pretty fast card - packing those two in Crossfire will be faster than GTX 280 (single one faster than GTX260 already).
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
DId you see review on P45 Crossfire??? 8x8 PCIe crossfire is a huve bottleneck! (

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1472/7/page_7_benchmarks_crysis/index.html

On the other hand, here's review saying it is not that much difference.. only about 0.5 frame/sec  So, what should we belive in?

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/06/18/gigabyte-ga-ep45-dq6/12

What do you think about it? Is that true? Can it be fixed by new drivers?

[phinix]

any news? I read somewhere it was going to be out this week?

[Quartz-1]

So that DFi mobo looks pretty cool now, when today we can read Radeon 4870 reviews... Pretty fast card - packing those two in Crossfire will be faster than GTX 280 (single one faster than GTX260 already).
BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!
DId you see review on P45 Crossfire??? 8x8 PCIe crossfire is a huve bottleneck! (

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1472/7/page_7_benchmarks_crysis/index.html

This just means you should go for the 4870x2