NVIDIA's nForce 780i SLI, the ultimate gaming platform?

[HEXUS]

NVIDIA announced today its NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI media and communications processor and claims it to be the foundation for the world's ultimate gaming PC.

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[DratUK]

No real improvement on 680i and it use's the 570 southbridge and only a mention of support for 1,333MHz front side bus CPUs. So no 1600mhz support.
An active chipset fan jeeze its gonna be a hot one again.
Think I'll stick with Intel atm.

[alsenior]

i think we will have wait until we get reports from enthusiasts at to weather this is any better than the 680.but to be truthful it looks like it more of an incremental step than an upgrade

[DeSean]

I believe the next one from Nvidia is the one to have. The 780i uses an additional chip to provide PCI-E 2.0 support. This will probably add to its already large power consumption, and is the reason for the huge heatsink in the middle. It also takes up space that could be used for another PCI slot of some kind.

Add to that the 680i's issues with quad cores, four RAM modules and the latest high-fsb chips = no thanks. SLI is much better than Crossfire at present but it's just not worth it IMO.

power consumption of reference board

[Rather treacherously, it links to a Hexus competitor!!!]

[datzero79]

Just out of curiousity.... 3 way sli must only GTX and Ultra.. not 8800GT and 8800GTS (pcie 2.0) ?? If that so then I aint going to spend whole lot of hellva money for those GTX and Ultra video cards

[Mblaster]

Just out of curiousity.... 3 way sli must only GTX and Ultra.. not 8800GT and 8800GTS (pcie 2.0) ?? If that so then I aint going to spend whole lot of hellva money for those GTX and Ultra video cards

Pretty sure it's because you need to 2 SLI connectors on the cards for 3-way SLI, and it's only the GTX/Ultra that have that.