nForce4 SLI Roundup: Painful and Rewarding

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• chucky2 - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  Typo on Page 20: I don't think you hit F3, it's F6.
  
  Chuck

• ajmiles - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  Wesley, would it be possible to get a reply to the comment #6 i wrote? ASUS worked closely with you to resolve the dual 6800 ultra issue, but they just stonewall me and everyone else regarding the overclocking at 1T issue.
  
  Perhaps if someone with some "muscle" in the hardware reviewing world were to push them for a response you could get one out of them?
  
  Thanks, Adam Miles

• teng029 - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  #52 - i don't envy what you have to go through. i've had the misfortune of trying to get tech support from asus sometime ago and it was like pulling teeth.
  
  #29 - i agree. while i would love to have two 6800 ultras or GTs in SLI, the fact of the matter is i can't justify the cost. so instead i'm going with two 6600GTs. although this is apparently not a very popular choice, the fact remains that this configuration is still going to be substantially faster than my current setup using a 9700 pro and it costs about the same as my 9700 pro when i bought it.

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• giz02 - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  I just noticed that the MSI board lacks additional PCIe boards, where the DFI board has an additional 1x and 4x slot. Anyones opinion on the importance of this?

• roostercrows - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  I just have to mention to my fellow anandtech members that I have an ASUS A8N-SLI board and I have been trying to get through to their "tech support" Friday and all Monday morning with absolutely no luck whatsoever! You can't even get through to anyone. So, when considering a motherboard keep this in mind. My experience with their "tech support" has been the worst you can imagine. Well...at least they weren't rude or incompetent.... they just aren't there.

• drewski - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  too bad the non-sli from MSI doesn't use the SB audio
  http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/m...

• giz02 - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  Sorry page 5-11
  

• giz02 - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  Heinrich,
  Did you configure the settings as per page 5-12 in the manual to passthrough on the decoder?
  

• THILE - Monday, February 28, 2005 - link

  How did you make the Gigabyte run 4x dimms at 200mhz?
  I have this new motherboard GA-K8NXP-SLI and 4x of kingston hyperx pc3200 (KHX3200UlK2).
  And running a new AMD athlon64 3500+ 90nm
  
  I use SPD settings for the memmory. T2 is enabled.
  Do I then force 200 mhz it just frezes.