As we’ve earlier reported NVIDIA has chosen to trash its nForce 590 SLI circuit, which would’ve given Core 2 Duo a real enthusiast circuit with SLI support. Instead NVIDIA started working on a new circuit, codenamed C55 that seems to overclock a lot better. VR-Zone reports that we should be able to expect motherboards based on the circuit in November along with support for SLI 16x, DDR2 800, 1333FSB, 6 x SATA2, dual Gb Ethernet, HT 1.0, 10 USB and HD-Audio. An insider has also informed them that our prayers for a good enthusiast board most likely will be answered since the board is capable of 510MHz FSB, which is actually trumped by ATI’s RD600 which was capable of 520MHz during the same testing.
NVIDIA hasn’t forgotten about AMD though but has a successor to nForce 590 SLI coming. The new circuit will have SLI 16x, 4x SATA 3Gb, dual Gigabit Ethernet with FirstPacket technology, 10 USB 2.0 portar and HD-Audio. The most interesting is most likely the support for the new HyperTransport 3.0 though. Anyhow, it looks like we will have a whole lot of new things from NVIDIA to enjoy this winter and then we haven’t even mentioned G80 here.
