NVIDIA nForce 590/680i For Conroe, Where Are They? HERE!

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well 2 months ago i didnt know the difference between AGP and PCiE 😉
i think ive leanrt a fair bit since then and i think ive made teh right choices in what to get

P5N32 premium
E6600
2gig G.Skill 800mhz 4-4-4-12
7950GT
650W silverstone PSU

any mistakes?
 
You really love your Intel chipsets, my friend. Intel has no MyLogo2 feature. WAIT -- before you start to disagree...

That IS a cool feature, and it's addition IS a plus and Intel DOESN'T have it. But I see your points. I did some reading about the 975X based Asus P5B DH Deluxe or something like that, and it did basically have the same feature list on it. Decently cool stuff, but there were some things I didn't see. I noticed that Intel has 8.1channel sound, and Asus has 7.1channel. Once again, quite a few LITTLE differences.
 
As far as I know the 590 chipset is also the only chipset that will support EPP equiped ram.

And correct me if I'm wrong but is currently the only chipset that supports dual PCI-E 16x SLI configurations. The rest of the chipsets that support SLI run one in 16x and the other in 8x.

If i'm wrong in this please let me know because this is a big part of the reason i'm planning on going with the P5n-32 sli premium board.
 
P5N32-SLI,P5N32-SLI SE and P5N32-SLI Premium are the only ones which have SLI in x16 mode. Any other motherboard only has x8 mode.

Still waiting for some news about the 590 chipset. Looks like its been delayed too long!
 
P5N32-SLI,P5N32-SLI SE and P5N32-SLI Premium are the only ones which have SLI in x16 mode. Any other motherboard only has x8 mode.

Still waiting for some news about the 590 chipset. Looks like its been delayed too long!
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From my understanding the SLI and SLI SE will support one video card at x16 but the other will be limited to x8. From what I heard the 590 chipset will allow the premium to run both cards at x16
 
I believe you are mistaken, hence the "32" in the model numbers, representing 2x16.

I am looking forward to Friday, as all current availability dates remain the 15th.
Else, if no results return by the start of next week, I'm taking Corksil's sword and fighting Asus for some knowledge. One way or another...
 
VIVA LA SWORD OF KNOWLEDGE!!! 😀

Yes, me too. If nothing happens by Friday, Asus is getting a phone call from mua. VIVA LA SWORD!
 
Is the 590 southbridge capable of encoding dolby 7.1 sound to an optical output? I know current chipset doesn't have hardware encoders as nforce1/2, but they still have to be compatible with dolby's software encoder. Will there be any 590 mobos bundled with dobly master studio?
 
I understand that the P5N32-SLI, SE and Premium will run both at x16 in SLI and single. The nForce 4, 4 XE and 4 Ultra will run a single card at x16 but if SLI is used, they will work in x8 mode.
 
I e-mailed zipzoomfly and they said the motherboard won't be availbe till the end of September. I hope they're wrong.
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I just spoke with ZipZoomFly, and they're still indicating the 15th. Who knows. I did notice some new pictures on their site by clicking "More Images." Has anyone seen these images elsewhere? Anyway, it looks awesome. I want it. Now.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247111
 
I googled for it a few minutes ago, and I almost shat myself. The first link returned in google is newegg.com, but before you get excited, it is only because a guy is referring to it in a review of an nForce 4 board. I want this board as well. I was going to put a 1GB stick of RAM into my laptop, but this board may take priority. Unfortunately, I still would be about $100 short, and then I'd have a mobo with nothing to put on it. Grrr

I have not seen those pictures either, they are... beautiful. They make me want this thing quite badly. It would be sweet if the mobo was black and the plastics were red and gray, that's always a sweet color-scheme. Mmmm, it makes me hungry. I think I am going to go hard-boil some more squirrels 😀.

.:EDIT:.

I'm glad that I don't have kids, because this is the point where I would take money from their college fund to build myself a PC. Muahahaha! *whisper* Don't let the women find this, they won't want me as badly methinks. *whisper*
 
heh I pre-ordered that at the beginning of this month. At that time the "soft estimate fullfillment date" was sept 4-11. Then it was changed to mid september. Few days ago it was changed to mid-end of sept :cry:

damn it i hope they seriously come out this week....eVGA is already sending out my 7950gx2 so all I'm missing is this board :?
 
If i don't see it by monday (sunday for you guys) then im just going to go with P5W DH. Id feel safer with the revised BIOS not to mention the fact that it has already proven itself.
 
I respect your decision and also understand you. i Just tell you, make sure you make the right decision. Anyways to end this the x975 is not a bad choise...
 
well if you do want stability get the 975 DH, i myself went into a ton of issues last year for jumping into the P5N32-SLI (the first one) one of them was that the processor that was on their supported processor list wasnt supported, i had to wait a whole month for asus to release a new bios that was able to boot the processor.

When it finally booted, my problems had just began. Constant reboots, incorrect temperature readings and incompatible ram. By the time a stable bios was released I sold it to a friend (which ended up having an incompatible hard drive) and i bought the P5WD2-E hoping that it would support C2D, went haywire when I found out that it wouldnt, and now im going to buy the P5N32-SLI Premium, which knowing asus it will have some sort of incompatibility and a bugged bios the first months.
 
Is the 590 southbridge capable of encoding dolby 7.1 sound to an optical output? I know current chipset doesn't have hardware encoders as nforce1/2, but they still have to be compatible with dolby's software encoder. Will there be any 590 mobos bundled with dobly master studio?
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I think you meant decode. Encode is something very different that requires actual hardware power.
The MCP55 XE found in the nForce590 IE platform can indeed decode dolby 7.1, but you'll need software like PowerDVD 7 to read them before it can be decoded to an audio(optical) output.

I meant what I wrote. I'm wondering if the mobos (the mentioned asus board) and/or the chipset (590 intel) is capable of encoding DirectSound3D into a dolby digital 7.1-stream to the optical output which later is decoded by an external receiver. 7.1-sound cannot be sent uncompressed through one optical tos-link, not enough bandwidth. Dolby Master Studio is a software encoder bundeled with some mobos.
 
I've been to the zeus site of Asus a few times but only just now discovered that you can actually download the 590 user manual (and the first BIOS release). Cool... more reading!
 
heh I pre-ordered that at the beginning of this month. At that time the "soft estimate fullfillment date" was sept 4-11. Then it was changed to mid september. Few days ago it was changed to mid-end of sept
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Same with me.

This site has now extended their ETA to the 25th:
http://www.vadim.co.uk/ASUS+P5N32-SLI+Premium+WiFi-AP+(1066+FSB+Conroe)
(select entire link first)
 
Still no 590 link on the Asus pages, just a 570 link. My internet is really slow right now so I can't get to the manual that was spoken of but I intend to. I just bought a 1GB stick of RAM for my laptop last night so I cannot wait for that to arrive... In other news, I will post back when I am not half asleep.
 
The site was and I'm sure was noted that the guide was available... just didn't stick out for me. I guess it's there for those of us that need things repeated a few times to sink in and tend not to re-read posts. I for one would have welcomed the repost. For those that don't, I apologize.

Wasn't the first re-post... won't be the last.
 
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