CeBIT 2007 Modding Roundup

Just wanted to add one last thing from CeBit.. be sure to check out other mods.. this on is really cool SLI setup..


Let's have a look over some of the best mods from this year's show!


This mod it's solely constructed by Ediejo, and features similar lighting effects to those used in the CoolerMaster Stacker mod, but it also includes a more improved watercooling loop and lots of carbon fibre loving.

This results in a truly fantastic combination of crisp white metal and black carbon fibre lines, with the flowing green tubing of a heavily integrated watercooling solution. All the components except the power supply are watercooled, with the fluid being distributed by a manifold placed right by the window for optimum effect.

The watercooled hard drive racks look like they are floating and the combination of green LED uplighting with white internal LEDs provides a great overall effect. Overall, it's subtle, practical and still a fantastic piece of modern art! The machine inside the case is also eye wateringly powerful, breaking 15,400 3DMarks with an E6600, two watercooled Point Of View GeForce 8800 GTXs, two 150GB Western Digital Raptors, an EVGA nForce 680i SLI, a 1100W Tagan PSU and 2GB of Corsair Dominator 9136C5D memory.

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Alienware Aurora m9700 17-inch Laptop

The last time we took a look at an Alienware laptop it was the Area-51 m5550 15.4-inch laptop. The m5550 is more of a mid-range budget system. The Aurora m9700 is on high-end being Alienware's 2nd most expensive laptop they sell. This notebook is built for gaming with dual 256MB Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS video cards in SLI mode! This is the first and only 17" laptop with a dual graphics card system. Before I reveal anymore about this laptop let's get the review started!

Specs:
Processor: AMD Turion 64 Mobile ML44 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
Display: 17" Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200 with Clearview
Motherboard: Alienware NVIDIA Mobile SLi Chipset
Memory: 2GB Dual Channel DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2 x 1024MB
Hard Drive: 200GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 4,200 RPM w/ 8MB Cache
Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW
Video/Graphics Card: Dual 256MB NVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled

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Intel to support AMD Crossfire / Part 3

Intel blocks Nvidia from running SLI on Conroe platforms

We got some interesting input on Intel not supporting SLI on its Conroe-supporting motherboards. Up until now, we, and our, sources have blamed it all on Nvidia but it turns out we might be wrong about that. There is a big chance that Intel doesn't want to allow Nvidia to run SLI, as it doesn't want to make a big thing about SLI on its own Conroe machines.
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Geeks get Quad SLI to work on a 965 Conroe board

Abass from Tbreak - or someome from his gang - managed to run Quad SLI with two 7950 cards on an Intel 965 board with a Conroe CPU.
Not that Nvidia wants people to test Quad SLI but it is more important to see that SLI contept might run on Intel's board after all. Nvidia is under a lot of pressure to enable its marchitecture on the Intel platform and I don't think it has much choice.
The TBreak chap took a Gigabyte 965P motherboard, stuck in a Conroe E6600 that works at 2.4GHz and managed to make two 7950 GX2 cards work together.
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Intel to support AMD Crossfire / Part 2

Hi people!
I wanted to share some other information to you about Intel chipset support of SLI or (unforetunately) better to say Crossfire. I thought I've remember a moment a year ago, where Intel decided to push Crossfire technology over SLI. Again I was right, but I thought that Nvidia was to blame for that! Well I was wrong, and after google-ing around all night I found what I was looking for! It seems that because of some reason known to Intel, and good relationship with ATI, Intel decided to include support for Crossfire.

Intel could be the real culprit behind the incompatibility between NVIDIA SLI and the new Conroe platform. Earlier NVIDIA has been blaimed for SLI not working with Intel's 975/965-based motherboards, but now it seems that it could be Intel that is stopping NVIDIA.

Here's the link to entire story
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