Our permanent readers already know that the long-awaited north bridge NVIDIA c55 will appear in the composition of chipsets nForce 680i SLI and nForce 650i SLI already on 8 November, bringing improvement in the overclocking potential and certain functional capability expansion. Chipset they can overclock the memory and processor asynchronously which will open access to the wide combinations set of memory frequency and system bus. It is expected that the chipset of this series can ensure system bus overclocking more than 500 MHz, which was awaited from all NVIDIA worshippers to get better overclocking result with processors intel core 2 Duo.
The American associate published the photograph of motherboard EVGA on base of chipset nForce 680i SLI, which fell at the disposal of our associates. They rejected to speak about the characteristics of this motherboard, but they noted the high performance level and they also reported that EVGA will propose these motherboards in package with video card geForce 8800 GTX during the announcement day of this last, i.e., on 8 November.
This Motherboard has a passive cooling system on its chipset. On the power subsystem mofest elements are installed an ordinary passive radiators . The radiator of the north bridge was enlarged into the height, so the cpu fan will help on its cooling . Again, this construction limits the motherboard to be used with liquid cooling systems.
This Motherboard has a pair of slots PCI express x1, a pair of slots PCI, and the quantity of slots PCI express x16 is equal to three. Possible that this chipset will make possible to realize the support of two slots PCI express of x16, but here the operation mode of the third slot is not definaed. It can completely correspond TO PCI express x8, if only the motherboard producer will not find necessary to slow it down.
Here an analog with the chipset ATI RD600 capability, which also supports three design slots PCI express x16, which work according to the formula “PCI express x8 + PCI express x8 + PCI express x2”. The third slot in both cases is intended for physical video card. We will not forget, that NVIDIA builds-in the functions of physics acceleration into videochip g80. Related Products :
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