First Nvidia 780i SLI review

[cookerjc]

http://www.expreview.com/img/review/780isli/600900.jpg

The main difference between 680i SLI and 780i SLI:

1. support PCIe Gen2

2. 3 x PCIe x16

3. support 3-way SLI

Because the 780i SLI is using the 680i SLI's south bridge and north bridge plus a BR04 chip, so there is no huge difference between 680i SLI, even the hottest topic: 3-way SLI is only an driver upgrade, doesn't need any architecture changes.(NV later will release a 3-way SLI driver for 680i SLI.)

http://www.expreview.com/img/review/780isli/c72art.jpg

Test bed:

http://www.expreview.com/img/review/780isli/platform.png

test reasult:

http://www.expreview.com/img/review/780isli/sysmarkt.png

http://www.expreview.com/img/review/780isli/everest.png

http://www.expreview.com/img/review/780isli/quake.png


for more info & scores pls go to the source: [FF not friendly..:(] http://topic.expreview.com/2007-10-18/1192682447d6049.html

[cookerjc]

oh seems i put this in a wrong section...
should i put this thread in review section?

[Ripper3]

I believe only certain people can make threads in review section, since they'll appear on the front page, so this avoids spamming from companies.
Nice and short, I usually only read reviews to look over the results, so nice to see mostly just results posted up. Looks like the 780i SLi is just a waste of a number, silicone, money, time and electricity, since it's just a 680i.
Maybe Nvidia should instead just focus on the drivers for 3-way SLi instead.

Also, if they really want to be jumping on the whole PCIe 2 bandwagon, maybe they should make graphics cards that can take advantage of the extra bandwidth, since I doubt an 8800Ultra would really truly need the full 16x PCIe 1 bandwidth, let alone the extra bandwidth offered up by PCIe 2

[Darknova]

We won't really find out how good it is over the 680 until PCI-E 2.0 cards come out...