Big deal, another AMD mobo that gets so hyped up that it disappoints in the end. And what advantage you gain by setting the PCI-e's power delivery anyway? And previewing is one thing, when are we gonna get our hand on it. It'd be lucky if it even reaches within the year 2008

This post has been edited by almostthere: Oct 7 2007, 08:06 PM

That's the whole point. AMD mobo's always hold tons of promise and cool BIOS stuff but in the end, what happens? RD600 anyone?

That's the key word, HYPE. This is why for AMD platforms, no matter how toasty the chipset is, I'd rather recommend using NVIDIA's


P.S: Thanks for the offer but very busy now and I'm aligned with another forum for now

Well I'm not surprised since physics modeling would be the 3rd GPU's intended function. And AMD isn't the only one if you had a look at Intel's X38 chipset mobo's

nF3? who's talking about nF3?

SATA Disk corruption? nF4 maybe but that was on Maxtor but who cares because Maxtor's long gone anyway

Who uses NV's firewall? Not me and I've been thru 3 platforms already so I know.

And says who 680i couldn't surpass 500Mhz? I've even seen some doing 600Mhz on dividers and extreme cooling in XS

What got me pissed about AMD was the fact for one, the mobo no matter how brilliant it was it's fundamentally flawed with lack of proper development, overpriced, over complex. What do you mean Intel vs. AMD+ATI? ATi delayed the mobo for a good year before we saw even anything so that was out of the question since it was a matter of it's AIB's starting production. No, it was a matter of it's tricky memory controllers which were less friendly with RAM modules, as well as those bloody SB issues which took some time to sort even on SB600

I don't deny the heat emissions but at least past the AHCI compliancy issue, NV's are far easier to setup and troubleshoot instead of ATi's. Ask empire23 since he had both mobo's. Owh and one more thing, I recall that many users of ICFX3200 noting quite warm NB and SB temps.

And judging by the amount of people who buy NV chipset based mobo's compared to AMD based mobo's even now, I'd say it's not even a laughing matter. And if AMD/ATi's habit is to be of any gauge, I'd say delayed would be the catch phrase again

This post has been edited by almostthere: Oct 8 2007, 09:32 PM

Like I said, it's an AMD thingy, even with their GC division. Delays

And FYI, NV has been going the FUD route. They've been very secretive and on time now that to the point nobody, and I mean nobody knows a darn thing what the green imps are upto. Which is why G90 remains a secrecy eventho it's due very soon

And as for the SLi exclusivity, from what I hear, NV might reverse their policy allowing cross platform multi-PEG setups. After all discrimination of GC is driver based and not hardware based so it's a matter of policy that's all.

Don't take me for some anti-AMD/ATI fanboy, it's just that I say it the way I see it. Was damned hardcore AMD/ATi fan before this until they screwed up with the delay issues and lack of advancements in the K10 architecture (Blame AMD Texas for that, K8 was AMD California's handywork)

And no, I don't use an NV chipset either. Just a plain old Intel P965 mobo