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In Answer To BarryJohn [Only]

I just contacted ASUStek and they said they will be releasing the motherboard tomorrow at 10:00am and retailers like NewEgg and TD will have them on their webpages ready at 3:00pm
This means that we will be able to get this nice nForce 590 motherboard earlier than expected. Which plus comes with the wireless antenna as you know and the SoundMax Microphone.

Prices will be around $280 and I believe is better to buy it than wait until it solds out.

I hope this calms you down and that you will tell your conroe to sit and wait 1 more day.
 
In Answer To BarryJohn [Only]

I just contacted ASUStek and they said they will be releasing the motherboard tomorrow at 10:00am and retailers like NewEgg and TD will have them on their webpages ready at 3:00pm
This means that we will be able to get this nice nForce 590 motherboard earlier than expected. Which plus comes with the wireless antenna as you know and the SoundMax Microphone.

Prices will be around $280 and I believe is better to buy it than wait until it solds out.

I hope this calms you down and that you will tell your conroe to sit and wait 1 more day.
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I hope you're right, i've been waking up around 12-1pm recently, and saying i have to wake up before 10am requires great effort.
 
gaww, ive been watching this thread forever haha, so much good information. I hope they come soon. Just posting so i get notified on new posts so i know when its available.
 
That answer is for BarryJohn only since he wanted to listen that...

Dont believe in me hahaha j/k I want that board in my hands too.

One really important thing is that I created this topic and see how big is getting... im proud of myself
 
DualNet, MediaShield, FirstPacket, a New improved nTune

Plus

LinkBoost if somehow the new G80 improves it.

Plus, Many more like many USB's Sata etc etc. We are talking about the ASUS one... Im kinda lazy right now to write everything that will come with it but if you take a look at page 9 or 10 you will find the link to the ASUS motherboard which is great compared to any other one in the market
 
I thought one of the key features was dual x16 SLI. Does the price/performance of the 7950 mean that if you're going to put
two video cards into this thing, then would it would probably
be two 7950s, and therefore quad SLI? Is quad SLI really worth it? (My guess: quad SLI will be much more important later than it is now)
 
Of course Quad Sli but you see not everybody has $1300 to spend ONLY on videocards (plus consider at least a 30-inch screen if you want to really take advantage of Quad-sli)

Also, with the drivers we have now, is not worth it. So lets just wait a couple of months for the G80 and some improved drivers.

Quad-SLI was just released, is expensive and need a lot of power from PSU so I dont think we will see it in the normal market in at least 8-10 months
 
So the question is then, would you put two video cards into this board anytime soon? If you want a 2-GPU solution, isn't the 7950 the way to go? And therefore are the features we want from this card unrelated to 2-video card solutions?
 
So the question is then, would you put two video cards into this board anytime soon? If you want a 2-GPU solution, isn't the 7950 the way to go? And therefore are the features we want from this card unrelated to 2-video card solutions?
 
That's not completely true. While the 7950GX2 is certainly the best single slot solution available, it's not as powerful as 2 7900GTXs running in SLI. Also, if you have 2 7900GTs, add aftermarket coolers and overclock them, they can surpass the performance of a 7950 for about the same price. Some people are also waiting for the 590 board because they already have SLI setups and want to get the most out of their current hardware without having to replace everything. It also gives those with one high end card the option of getting a large performance boost at some point in the future.
 
DualNet, MediaShield, FirstPacket, a New improved nTune

Plus

LinkBoost if somehow the new G80 improves it.

Plus, Many more like many USB's Sata etc etc. We are talking about the ASUS one... Im kinda lazy right now to write everything that will come with it but if you take a look at page 9 or 10 you will find the link to the ASUS motherboard which is great compared to any other one in the market
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I'll have to read about what all of those features do...

Is there any info on how this board is for overclocking compared to the P5W DH?
 
Seems that senor summed it up quite nicely. Senor should get an award for summing it up as well as he did. Odd the way it seems I get home, get online, find 10 new posts, then nothing all night, then another ten when I get home the following day. Either no one likes me and is hiding, or the time zones are not in my favor. I'll go with the latter.

Checked out the two links, reviews of the board with the nForce 4 series of chipsets if I can collect information properly. I am going to keep looking around for parts, etc, etc.

BTW, I found this RAM last night, and it didn't look too bad. Decent reviews back it up, and it's not that expensive. 512MBs of DDR2 800 for under 60 bucks?

LINK

Also, check out how freaking cheap these decent Pentium 4 processor/motherboard deals are. I knew that the introduction of Core 2 Duo would drive down costs in the P4 single-core market, but wow, that's really down. I remember when that combo was about 4-600 dollars.

LINK

Additionally also, are Core 2 Duo cpus technically Pentium 5s? I have heard them reffered to as such, but I am skeptic. Time to go look for more sweet mobo-compatible parts, then make more excited posts asking if they look like good deals.
 
That's amazing. Kind of funny the e6300 overclocked better than all the core 2 duos (cept the extreme).

I wonder if Asus will throw in this unlocked multiplier support in the nforce 5s?

My planned system is as following:

Core 2 Duo E6600 w/ Thermalright Ultra-120 cooler
OCZ PC2-8000 1gig RAM
OCZ GamerReady 700watt PSU
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium (Nforce 590)
XTX Geforce 7900GT 256mb Extreme


I may throw in another NVIDIA card and another 1gig of ram in the future.
 
Dude, that memory I mentioned a few posts up, pretty good. I am in the middle of reading a 34 page memory review from Tom's Hardware, and turns out that that memory I flagged is some decent stuff. I don't know that much about memory, and this build is going to be my first experience in overclocking. Hopefully I collected enough information from this guide/review to understand it, but I recommend you check it out for yourself if you are interested in that RAM.

.:EDIT:.

Forgot the link...

LINK
 
Yeh, disregard the RAM post. I haven't been sleeping as much as I should recently, and my mind isn't entirely working, nor in a state to learn new information at a fast rate. I should go to bed, seems that my amount of research doesn't really affect the release date...

Sorry bout that, I went back after the post and started trying to read it again, but it seemed to hold different information than the first time through.

As far as entertainment goes, next time you get bored, get a friend drunk and make him explain crop circles. "It's GMOs!!! I swear man, they throw the seeds out and when they grow, they grow like that!! I'VE GOT IT!"
 
I'm curious:
I'm not an overclocker and I probably never will be. But I've had my eye on this mobo for a while now.

In your humble opinions is it worth waiting for the 590 board if I'm not going to be OC'ing it? Or is it worth waiting because of the built in speed increase, or would I even notice a speed change from the 570? (which I believe is out now?)

Thoughts?

BTW: I have an E6600 and I plan on gaming with the new rig.
 
> I may throw in another NVIDIA card and another 1gig of ram in the future.


I think it's more important to buy a matched pair of DIMMs
particularly if you plan to run in dual-channel mode.

Just my opinion, and also the opinion of others:
2 x 1 GB appears to be the current "sweet spot"
for dual-channel systems.

I believe that Corsair XMS now easily reaches DDR-1000
e.g. see their PC2-8500 product:
TWIN2X2048-8500C5 or TWIN2X2048-6400C3
or TWIN2X2048-6400C4, all of which have
Enhanced Performance Profiles ("EPP"), or
TWIN2X1024-8000UL.

Here's the Corsair page for that series:

http://www.corsair.com/corsair/xms2.html


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Well I bought 1 gig of OCZ EL Platinum XTC 1024MB PC8000 DDR2 1000MHz Memory. In the future I plan to buy the exact same model. Will that be able to do dual channel mode?
 
Well I bought 1 gig of OCZ EL Platinum XTC 1024MB PC8000 DDR2 1000MHz Memory. In the future I plan to buy the exact same model. Will that be able to do dual channel mode?
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If it's the same exact model of RAM, then yes, it will be dual channel capable.
 
Why did you got PC8000? DDR 1000Mhz? I bet they are Cas 5, I heard they are noT that good... well
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http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_8000_platinum_extreme_edition

CL 4-5-4-15
(CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)

"The OCZ EL PC2-8000 XTC seems to perform best at a CAS setting of 4 or 3. We often found we could stabilize performance just by moving down from CAS 5 to CAS 4 in our testing. DDR2-1100 required CAS 5, but we reached near that speed at DDR2-1080 with CAS 4. " -anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2732&p=12
 
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