Will 650i bottleneck 9600GT SLI?

[adithyagenius]

650i chipsets supports PCI-E at 8x only in SLI mode. This is not a problem for 7900GT. But what if 9600GT SLI or 8800GT SLI is used? They are PCI-E 2.0 16x cards.

[ring_wraith]

Its going to be a looooong time before PCI-E bottlenecks GPUs.

[MetalheadGautham]

650i was one of the most customer cheating chipsets ever made by nVidia.

>> It had support for quad core, but overheated

>> It was cheap and good looking, but unstable

>> It suppored SLI, but only 8x

no wonder it was pulled out.
It starts to look hardly buyable now that 780G from AMD is out.

[adithyagenius]

650i = 7k
780i = 17k
for a person with budget under 10k, 780i is irrelevant
what i can do is buy a cheaper single pci-e mobo and get 3870x2 which is slower than 9600gt full sli

[ray|raven]

^Its 780G from AMD he's talking about, Not the 780i from Nvidia.

[ring_wraith]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

650i was one of the most customer cheating chipsets ever made by nVidia.

>> It had support for quad core, but overheated

>> It was cheap and good looking, but unstable

>> It suppored SLI, but only 8x

no wonder it was pulled out.
It starts to look hardly buyable now that 780G from AMD is out.

Disagree. Big time.

1) Overheated? What does that even mean? A mobo has nothing to do with CPU temps.
2) Unstable? I've had one for over a year with the FSB at 430Mhz up from the default 333Mhz and not one single crash.
3) That is clearly mentioned on all boxes from any manufacturer. Your inability or nonchalance in researching a product before talking about it results in statements like this against a great chipset.

BTW, it is one of the highest performing budget chipsets available and happens to support pseudo-asynchronous Mem:FSB ratios.

And wasn't the thread about bottlenecks? In that regard, your post is completely and inexcusably unnecessary.

[adithyagenius]

780g would mean crappy amd processor