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Do you guys want a mATX with SLI? Vote now!!

I'd probably never use it but I whole heartedly support it. :)
 
I think on an AMD system it could be done, but on an intel system, your lookin at 16 pci-e lanes and a memory controller, along with everything else. And I think you'd have a very tough time trying to fit a 2nd bridge on one of them boards.

or am i thinking of ITX?

edit: yeah i am thinking of ITX, yeah mini atx sli/crossfire wouldn't be too hard, i assume.
 
I'm thinking if they did build it it would probably come out as 8X PCIe each instead of 16X PCIe each. Although that wouldnt really be all that bad. Better than no SLI at all.
 
You're right, there a few people that don't know jack. Those are the dillholes that are voting no. What do they care whether or not we get a board? That being said, the majority of the voters want an SLI board of some kind.

So, if you haven't registered, just do it! It'll only take a minute. As of right now, this post has 200 views... every one of you should have voted (yes, of course!) :D
 
As i posted there, I'd be interested. But the lack of PCI slots would kill me. I'd love an Ultra board though. I just want a mATX with a true enthusiast level OCing chipset, none of this integrated graphics stuff.

That's what I'd really want myself.
 
I would rather have a mATX SLI board from a real mobo mfg like Abit, DFI, or ASUS.

That joke of a mATX s939 SLI foxcomm evga re-badge POS mobo has got me not every buying Evga mobos again.


A AM2 mATX SLI would be nice, but its gonna be tough to beat the Nview in overclcoking.

As far as C2D gose, it would be nice to get a good mATX board in general, let alone SLI.
 
I(illa Bee said:
That joke of a mATX s939 SLI foxcomm evga re-badge POS mobo has got me not every buying Evga mobos again.
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What sucked about it? I only remember overclocking was non-existent.

I think I will still be able to squeeze in a PCI-E x1 card.
 
WintersFury said:
As i posted there, I'd be interested. But the lack of PCI slots would kill me. I'd love an Ultra board though. I just want a mATX with a true enthusiast level OCing chipset, none of this integrated graphics stuff.

That's what I'd really want myself.
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Who says you have to lose a slot? :D

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I(illa Bee said:
I would rather have a mATX SLI board from a real mobo mfg like Abit, DFI, or ASUS.

That joke of a mATX s939 SLI foxcomm evga re-badge POS mobo has got me not every buying Evga mobos again.


A AM2 mATX SLI would be nice, but its gonna be tough to beat the Nview in overclcoking.

As far as C2D gose, it would be nice to get a good mATX board in general, let alone SLI.
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My eVGA board has been nothing but stellar, even with the notoriously hard to OC FX-60...
 
I guess so.. but just the fact that its a foxcomm board bothers me..

along with the poor quality, noisy crappy chipset cooling, 1t memory problems, voltage fluctuation on both memory and CPU, the lame 3 16x slot SLI system they had, totaly useless PCIe slots when running 1 card. I would prefer 2-16x slots and 1 or 2, 1-4x slots. and a few others im sure I forgot about...

(eSATA not working on it? I think i forgot)
 
craigbru said:
Who says you have to lose a slot? :D.
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I guess if I could find that crazy cable thing and find space I wouldn't, but where does the card have an out to the outside of the case?

That would kind of make a sound card useless if I couldn't get to the outputs.

That and I like to have 2 slots, one for sound one for network (I don't like the usb plug wireless things, they usually suck).
 
WintersFury said:
I guess if I could find that crazy cable thing and find space I wouldn't, but where does the card have an out to the outside of the case?

That would kind of make a sound card useless if I couldn't get to the outputs.

That and I like to have 2 slots, one for sound one for network (I don't like the usb plug wireless things, they usually suck).
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Those PCI extension cables are actually cheap and plentiful to find. That's actually a really great idea! I totally blanked on the sound card, so would probably end up doing that. All you would need to do is drill a small hole in the back of the case for a stereo plug, or you could even squeeze it between the outlet for the graphics card.

Edit: Okay they are not as cheap or as easy to find as I remember... :D

I(illa Bee said:
I guess so.. but just the fact that its a foxcomm board bothers me..

along with the poor quality, noisy crappy chipset cooling, 1t memory problems, voltage fluctuation on both memory and CPU, the lame 3 16x slot SLI system they had, totaly useless PCIe slots when running 1 card. I would prefer 2-16x slots and 1 or 2, 1-4x slots. and a few others im sure I forgot about...

(eSATA not working on it? I think i forgot)
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You could live with most of those problems though. Ya I noticed that 3x 16x slot when I looked at the board earlier today. What the heck was up with that? Foxconn has never offered very good motherboards though. Even that nForce6150 they offered had a mess for a bios. Hopefully they contract with someone else, if they do make it.
 
craigbru said:
Who says you have to lose a slot? :D
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Nice. They could also, maybe, find a way to intergrate an XtremeGamer X-fi onto the mobo as well. That would save a slot but up the price on it which doesn't matter much to me, the G33 Gigabyte I bought was close to $150 so I'm willing to buy a board in that price range if it came with the features that I want. :)
 
CrimandEvil said:
Nice. They could also, maybe, find a way to intergrate an XtremeGamer X-fi onto the mobo as well. That would save a slot but up the price on it which doesn't matter much to me, the G33 Gigabyte I bought was close to $150 so I'm willing to buy a board in that price range if it came with the features that I want. :)
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If they put an X-Fi integrated onto the board, I'd be there. I could deal with a usb wireless thingey, but going back to onboard sound would be a lot harder to do.

As for drilling a hole, I could... But I'd need to get 4 cables out as my headset is one of the Turtle Beach 5.1 + Mic ones and I'd give up my sound card before I gave them up.

I could find some creative way of doing it though I'd imagine. But it's moot due to the fact that there isn't a board currently. I guess we wait and see if they actually do it or not.


As for Foxconn boards... All of the 680i reference boards from eVGA, BFG, etc are made by them. And people love those boards so I'm not too worried if Foxconn does wind up making them.
 
I(illa Bee said:
I guess so.. but just the fact that its a foxcomm board bothers me..
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oh, you mean Foxconn ?

well, the EVGA board in question was actually made by Jetway so... thnx for playing.

and the pci slot between cards isnt useless, I have a vantec dual fan slot cooler there =)
 
burnin8r said:
oh, you mean Foxconn ?

well, the EVGA board in question was actually made by Jetway so... thnx for playing.

and the pci slot between cards isnt useless, I have a vantec dual fan slot cooler there =)
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Jetway? opps, same diffrence... jetway, foxconn

I just had 3 of them, they all blew compared the the biostar (funny because thats another off brand, but there proving themselves) To bad there isn't any comp for SLI mATX. so sad..
 
I(illa Bee said:
Jetway? opps, same diffrence... jetway, foxconn

I just had 3 of them, they all blew compared the the biostar (funny because thats another off brand, but there proving themselves) To bad there isn't any comp for SLI mATX. so sad..
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I had a Biostar TForce 6100 before the EVGA NF4, it was a great board. If Biostar made an SLi version in µATX, I would have bought it in a heartbeat, at any price. I agree with you that there should be more competition in this segment.

That being said, Jetway makes innovative boards, including a dual socket design allowing 939 and 754 at the same time. So, when EVGA was looking for a board partner to do something out of the ordinary (which µATX SLi is...), I can imagine Jetway was at the top of the list.
 
Jetway has been making miniITX solutions for awhile and even had a Twin MiniQ system that allowed you to run two operating systems on the same PC! They're no stranger to cramming alot of components onto smaller boards. Their boards just lack glitz.
 
evga already has the design for a C2D based SLi matx board, but they just arent producing it due to the market smallness.
 
Dillusion said:
evga already has the design for a C2D based SLi matx board, but they just arent producing it due to the market smallness.
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Seriously? I'd like them to take a chance... I'd almost hate to admit how much I'd pay for a board...
 
If it had:
1. Two PCI-E 16x and two PCIE 1x
2. Real X-Fi audio, with optical in/out
3. X38 chipset
4. Firewire-800 (IEEE-1394b)
5. 6-8 SATA 3gb/s ports

... I'd pay basically anything for it - easily $250.
 
i used to want one, but not anymore.

that said, i wouldn't vote against because i am all for more choice, and you never know..................

but at present, with high-end cards taking up two slots i would prefer not to have no expansion options when using SLI, and high end cards are plenty fast enough to drive 1920x1200 on their own.
 
The original eVGA mATX SLI prototype shown was S775 - there are pictures of it floating around somewhere!

I would definitely buy a new eVGA C2D SLI mATX as long as it was a decent overclocker! :D
 
hah ya i saw one of these mobos on ebay just yesterday.. so they are out.. nice pci extension ima have to get some of those to use the hidden pci slots i have and need!
 
ryan_975 said:
Didn't that turn out to be a pile of crap?
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Not sure what you mean, by the looks of it lots of people who own it like it. I mostly saw people bitching that they couldn't get T1 timings on their memory.
 
CrimandEvil said:
Not sure what you mean, by the looks of it lots of people who own it like it. I mostly saw people bitching that they couldn't get T1 timings on their memory.
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I just remember a lot of BIOS problems, but it's been a while and all of that may be been worked out by its end of life.


http://www.evga.com/articles/306.asp there's the link to it for those who are curious.

But on topic, I'd love to have a good mATX SLI board that overclocks as well as the full ATX boards out there. This centurion 5 case is just way too big for me.
 
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