NVidia & Intel Finally Come Together

[T_Flight]

I just keep finding better and better tech news every day! Everytime i go looking I find something else that just blows me away!

I read today that nVidia has agreed to support dual and tri SLi on the Intel X58 platform that support the new Bloomfield CPU's!

This is great news! I made another thread about this topic wondering if nVidia had totally lost their minds, and I guess they are listening to us enthusiasts!

This is great news for the overclocker who wants those Intel chipsets, but also wants a system that can go SLi if they want it.

The deatils are unclear, but it looks like Nvidia is willing to work with Intel. Now we have to see if it's a deal that is acceptable to Intel.

All you need to do is search for Intel Bloomfield nVidia SLi and you'll get hits of numerous articles on this all over the Internet. :smile:

[T_Flight]

Update: The lastest word I have gotten is this ***IS NOW OFFICIAL***. nVidia has definitely reached and agreement and Intel will be adding the N200 SLI chip to X58 platforms. This allows up to dual and tri SLi to be used on the Intel X58 platform.

I wouldn't be looking for it on anything but the highest end boards though. Of course if you plan to run something like that in the future cost is not a concern.

People, we are gonna see numbers that are beyond belief with an Intel Bloomfield teamed up with an X58 board and SLi'd GTX280 cards! nVidia's cards have been bottlenecked for a long time becasue SLi with Intel required the use of an nVidia Chipset which didn't OC all that well. These Intel chipsets clock extremely high. We alsready know that Bloomfield will be rlereased with high multi's. That'sa sign that the chip has the ability to clock to high levels.

They are gonna have to come up with new benhcmarks and ranges for these new systems. I'm not joking either when i say that. Systems like this won't even be loaded with the current benchmarking programs they have.

I'm am shocked to see that all the things I have hoped for, for many years have actually happened. If you qwould've told me 2 months ago that nVidia would come to an agrement with Intel I would've said "No way man, they haven't for years."

I am astonished to see that this has actually happened. It isa performance computing enthusiast dream to have that all finally working together. For years nVidia was costing themselves sales on teh intel platform and was severely hadicapped in the perofremance benchmarks becasue of it. Now they are going to really shine and may exceed sales they had bever dreamed of. They have everything to gain from the decision they made. They were literally letting AMD takeover their best market, becasue it was the only sensible choice then was to buy crossfire becasue it's all an Intel platform could support, but now, they OWN that market and will dominate.

We get choices, and get the power we've been wanting without restriction and Intel wins, nVidia wins, the user wins...heck everybody is a winner! This is just outstanding man! People can now buy what they really want without all the "interbrand wars" of the past getting in their way. nVidia has proven beyond a doubt they are here to give the user what they want! That's first class. :thumb:

[BHawthorne]

Ug, hype enough already? :)

I remain reserved about the whole thng till I have one in my hands. PR and second hand info is always spun to be either the best or worst it can be. I'm sure I'll be messing around with the hardware soon enough though.

[T_Flight]

No hype. Numbers man. The numbers are already out there and they are already getting higher. They have been for a long time. They will be even higher with fully optimized release hardware instead of the ES samples they've been using. They always do.

The only things I have seen that have been flops were always the ones that were flops to begin with. Not so with this stuff. This is cutting edge stuff we're talking about. There is no info out there at all to lad one to believe that the tsts that were released were inflated. Especially the tests at XS posted by the guys there.

All tests show the same things. A 30-50% increase in performance accross the board.

With the GTX280 it is able to fold at a rate that exceeds some people's multiple computer setups. I'm one of them. I can fold currently at a rate that tops out at 500 points per day when i can get the large DGROMACS. These new nVidia cards fold at a rate of 4800-5200 points per day that ten times the power of both of my present computers and that's just one GPU. I also know of a setup that folds at around 4-5000 a day and that's two systems that are very high end hardware. Some of the best available right now. A ttoal system like this will fold at a rate of something like 7-8000 points per day when you include the CPU into it. That is a real world benchmark that's hard to beat. There isn't much that puts more of a load on a machine than Folding. In fact guys actually use it to test for stability.

These are conservative *estimates* on the folding. Until I actually get it running I really couldn;t say what iot will top out at. those would just be minimums. On the GTX280 though we already know those are the numbers as those have been reported to Standford. The average range IS 4800-5200 points per day. Nothing else is even close.

That's one thing I learned a long time ago about folding. It is the best real world benchamrks that ever was. Not only is it a great service to give back to this world, is a true measure of a systems raw processing ability.

We'll get to see it first hand from myself at release. I'm gonan run the full tests and after it's run in, I'm gonna wring it out to the max.