nForce4 SLI Motherboards: Premium Performance at a Bargain Price

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• Gary Key - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link

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  I agree, I feel that the article makes some unfounded and moreover highly irresponsible statements, such as "in fact, the current price structure almost ensures that your nForce4 purchase should be an SLI-capable motherboard." SLI is not worth it in any way, shape, or form from any cost/performance standpoint, unless you happen to be the enthusiast user who wants the highest possible performance available today no matter the cost. For everyone else SLI is worthess...and yet how many new users are going to go out and waste their cash on an SLI board because of statements made in the article like the one above?

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  As stated in the article the current pricing structure lends itself to the purchase of an SLI capable motherboard if the nForce4 is your chipset of choice. Even if you do not utilize SLI you at least have the option of doing so, if not for gaming, then for multiple monitor support and excellent performance utilizing two x8 lanes. If you look at the current support from the motherboard suppliers and product plans it is very obvious that SLI/CrossFire capable motherboards are becoming the standard across all price points. Our statements were based on these facts regarding the motherboard choices available. If you consider the potential cost/performance benefits then why pay the same amount of money for a board that is not capable of SLI or CrossFire and will probably not receive the same level of support over the lifespan of the product.

• bob661 - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link

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  SLI is not worth it in any way, shape, or form from any cost/performance standpoint, unless you happen to be the enthusiast user who wants the highest possible performance available today no matter the cost.

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  Isn't this a contradiction?

• Capt Caveman - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

  What are you talking about? You can get a SLI board for $70.

• andlcool - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

  for the asus one, it should be ddr and not ddr2.

• ElFenix - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

  still, should be a good price for stock speed boards

• ElFenix - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

  looking at the first chart i mean. doesn't seem to fall off much eh?
  
  <--- wants an edit function

• Gary Key - Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - link

  The Foxconn board offered excellent stability throughout testing although it certainly is not targeted at the overclocking crowd. The performance was certainly acceptable and without the benchmarks you probably would not be able to tell the difference between it and the other boards. The layout is really nice unless you plan on utilizing two video cards with two slot cooling solutions as the space becomes very tight between the two x16 slots.
  
  I would like an edit function also. ;->