Nehalem Prototype Board

[meat_helmet]

The prototype board on display was based on Intel's X58 chipset and supports up to six graphics cards, four PCIehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express Gen2 x16 slots and two wide-open Gen 2 x4 slots.

Source: Gigabyte's Monstrous 6 TFlops Core i7 Prototype Motherboard Pictured - Tom's Hardware

 

[Wildside]

x4 slots? OMG! Who uses that anymore?

DO NOT WANT!

 

[zedman3d]

x4 slots? OMG! Who uses that anymore?

DO NOT WANT!

Its got 4 PCIE 2.0 slots, the x4's will be for things like addon cards. Its actually an upgrade from x1 slots and PCI slots most people use for those sort of cards.

 

[Poizen22]

i wana see an asus or evga offering, or even a dfi.

 

[Drizzt]

But evga is all nvidia chipsets?

 

[ricanflow]

x4 slots? OMG! Who uses that anymore?

DO NOT WANT!

pay attention dude....six pci-e slots.

 

[Wildside]

pay attention dude....six pci-e slots.

i know that but since when was the last time u saw x4 PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards? I've only seen PCI, AGP, and PCI-E x8 n x16.

 

[ricanflow]

i know that but since when was the last time u saw x4 PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards? I've only seen PCI, AGP, and PCI-E x8 n x16.

Board or cards??

Heres a four pci-e 2.0 x16 slot board:
Newegg.com - MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards

And of course all the new cards, even back to the 8800GT are pci-e 2.0

Ha, same board youre running too...i could use one myself.

 

[zedman3d]

i know that but since when was the last time u saw x4 PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards? I've only seen PCI, AGP, and PCI-E x8 n x16.

Didnt i just explain that?

 

[Drizzt]

i know that but since when was the last time u saw x4 PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards? I've only seen PCI, AGP, and PCI-E x8 n x16.

It's a new generation mobo... what do you expect?