CeBIT : The nForce 790i SLI on the horizon Posted on 05/03/2008 at 00:01 by Marc
The nForce 790i SLI, planned for mid-March, was obviously present at the expo, notably by ASUSTeK, Gigabyte and MSI. ASUS will offer an Ultra version with its Striker II Extreme equipped with a Fusion Block or water cooling. On the other hand, it «only» has 3 PCI Express x16 ports where the Gigabyte and MSI have 4. By the way, on MSI’s P7N2 Diamond the 3rd and 4th ports are very close while they are well spaced out on the GA-790SLI-DQ6.
You may recall, the nForce 790i SLI adds native PCI-E 2 as well as DDR3 support. FSB1600 will be officially supported while for DDR3, it’s still officially a question of DDR3-1333. Gigabyte however mentions DDR3-1600 on the PCB of its motherboard and ASUSTeK goes even further with DDR3-2000 on its product sheet.
