AMD's 990X, 990FX chipsets to have SLI support?

User Comments: 17

1. March 31, 2011 3:41 PM
   Jurassic4096 said:

   Bravo AMD. I'm impressed. I wasn't too sure before, but i think i will see what Bulldozer has to offer in terms of performance before i upgrade my CPU and mobo. now if you could only not degrade performance after every Catalyst release.

   So now its between 990X,FX and the upcoming Z68 chipsets...

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2. March 31, 2011 3:47 PM
   

   Trillionsin said:

   Ive been looking for an AMD board that will support SLI. As there seem to be some on the market, they have nvidia chipsets, correct? I suppose it may be a good idea to hold off and get a board with AMD's chipsets that support SLI.

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3. March 31, 2011 3:51 PM
   

   LinkedKube, TechSpot Project Baby, said:

   Ahh, poor bulldozer, we await your arrival. To compete with 2014's core i12 processors.

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4. March 31, 2011 4:04 PM
   

   Lokalaskurar said:

   trillionsin said:

   Ive been looking for an AMD board that will support SLI. As there seem to be some on the market, they have nvidia chipsets, correct? I suppose it may be a good idea to hold off and get a board with AMD's chipsets that support SLI.

   Oh, there are many good SLI-AMD combos out there. Hopefully the native AMD-SLI motherboards will have better support for more combinations of nVidia cards, though. It all depends on how long people can wait for our fellow Bulldozer to arrive at the party.

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5. March 31, 2011 4:06 PM
   

   KG363 said:

   supersmashbrada said:

   Ahh, poor bulldozer, we await your arrival. To compete with 2014's core i12 processors.

   So true.

   Are you the supersmashbrada from OCN?

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6. March 31, 2011 4:10 PM
   

   LinkedKube, TechSpot Project Baby, said:

   overclockers? forum?

   My question is which one of the editors drew a bobcat on a 2500k cpu and tried to trick us in the picture.

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7. March 31, 2011 5:19 PM
   SeiveD said:

   That's not a bulldozer on the processor in that picture, it's an excavator.

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8. April 1, 2011 1:02 AM
   Guest said:

   this better not be a one day early April Fools prank

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9. April 1, 2011 1:58 AM
   mosu said:

   Nice try!

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10. April 1, 2011 6:30 AM
    ET3D, TechSpot Paladin, said:

    Good thing this wasn't posted on April 1.

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11. April 1, 2011 8:18 AM
    fpsgamerJR62 said:

    If this is true, it must be the best news I've heard all year. Nvidia must be anticipating AMD's return to the high-end CPU market.

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12. April 1, 2011 10:03 AM
    

    Mizzou said:

    @fpsgamer - Was thinking along similar lines, see it as a good move for both AMD and Nvidia ... hopefully there's some substance behind it.

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13. April 1, 2011 5:02 PM
    

    dividebyzero, trainee n00b, said:

    If this is true, it must be the best news I've heard all year. Nvidia must be anticipating AMD's return to the high-end CPU market.

    As well as the $5 SLI licence fee per motherboard

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14. April 1, 2011 7:32 PM
    edison5do said:

    The guys of Nvidia got mad with intel movement, so they will help AMD procesor selling!! that´s a good hit to intel! Amd could gaing more share in the CPU market after this.

    I really hope that bulldozer dont dissapoint us!....

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15. April 2, 2011 5:03 PM
    

    DAOWAce said:

    Bull.

    I bit the Sandy Bridge upgrade because there was absolutely no word on SLI support for AMD chipsets anymore. Now I bet I'll regret my purchase, but still, it's months away.

    If Bulldozer ends up beating SB, I may switch back over to AMD.

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16. April 3, 2011 7:34 PM
    DokkRokken said:

    I doubt SB buyers will be gnashing their teeth over their purchase after BD debuts. I can hope the results will be earth-shattering, but that'd be optimistic.

    Even so, it's terrific to see this support again. More choice for AMD users!

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17. April 3, 2011 8:53 PM
    

    dividebyzero, trainee n00b, said:

    @Dokk

    From a consumer standpoint I hope BD has 50+% more performance than SB and retails for half the price...we could do with good old competition.

    Of course, given the rise of A(TI)MD's fanboy base since RV770, it's pretty certain that if AMD becomes ascendant in graphics AND CPU then the entire net would collapse under the gravitational pull of the combined smugness- a Schwarzschild radius of Douchebaggery as it were :p

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