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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:19 pm    Post subject: nForce3 and nForce4 Useful Information
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nForce4 - the basic value chipset for 939 and754. This is the chipset that you will likely find in Socket 754 and low-end Socket 939 boards selling for less than $100. The nF4 is targeted at value boards, but it still includes on-chip gigabit Ethernet capabilities, support for 10 USB, full nVidia "any drive" Raid capabilities, support for nVidia Firewall 2.0, and support for the nTune Performance Utility. Four SATA drives are supported at current 1.5GB/s speeds plus four PATA (IDE) devices. The big disadvantage of the vanilla nF4 chipset is that it only supports 800 Hyper Transport. In addition, the HT bus is locked on the basic nF4 to prevent overclocking of the Hyper Transport. This means that the basic nForce4 is not a good choice for the enthusiast, who is better served by the Ultra and SLI chipsets.


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nForce4 Ultra - the mainstream nF4 designed for boards that will sell in the $100 to $150 price range. In addition to nF4 features, you will find full support for an unlocked 1000 Hyper Transport, support for 3Gb/s SATA drives, and nVidia's secure networking engine, which is called ActiveArmor.


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nForce4 SLI - the high-end version of the nF4 is designed for boards that will sell at $150 or more. The nF4 SLI is the only version to support programmable PCI Express lanes, which allows the use of either a single or dual Video Card. A single GPU is supported by an x16 PCIe slot, which can be reprogrammed to two x8 PCIe slots to support two video cards in SLI mode. All features are, otherwise, the same as nForce4 Ultra.


Product descriptions taken from Anandtech

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Nvidia has put up the info on the NForce3 and NForce3 Go.

nForce3
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nf3.html

nForce3 Go
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nf3go.html

nForce3 FAQ
http://www.nvidia.com/page/pg_20030917467036.html

This should answer most of the questions on the nF3.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:31 pm    Post subject: Re: NForce3 and NForce3 Go pages on Nvidia's website
Thnx DSC, stickied.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:13 am    Post subject: Re: nForce3 and nForce3 Go pages on NVIDIA's website
finally, nForce in a notebook Smile

how many of those things apply to notebook form factors is a bit confusing, like NVIDIA RAID.......
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:11 pm    Post subject: Re: nForce3 and nForce3 Go pages on NVIDIA's website
BIM2k wrote:
finally, nForce in a notebook Smile

how many of those things apply to notebook form factors is a bit confusing, like NVIDIA RAID.......


Are you kidding BIM? I would have a RAID5 in my notebook as well as NVHYDRAULICLIFT to carry the thing around! Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:34 am    Post subject: Re: nForce3 and nForce3 Go pages on NVIDIA's website
what? you havnt heard of raid0 in notebooks?
take a look>> http://pctorque.com/pre-notebook.php#8890

if thats not enough, chainteck has a notebook with desktop hardware coming out. its called IMO. it uses desktop harddrive, memory and cpu.
link>>http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/news/news_show1001.asp
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PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:21 pm    Post subject: Re: nForce3 and nForce3 Go pages on NVIDIA's website
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finally, nForce in a notebook


Very Happy I know eh... I noticed on the driver site for my compaq r3000 that there was an nvidia driver thing, so I installed the forceware drivers instead and hell the soundstorm control panel and everything worked instead of the retarted soundMAX thing that came with the notebook.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:17 am    Post subject:
i think there is an error in the sticky.

the vanilla nforce4 supports 1GHz HTT speeds, not 800MHz. The "locked" at 1GHz HTT speed is a good thing for overclocking, since you can overclock the cpu bus and keep the HTT in spec instead of resorting to dividers. As for the "slower" sata speeds, what currently offered sata drives can use the 1.5GB/sec let alone the 3.0GB/sec the nforce4 ultra and sli offer?

seems anandtech was paid off to push users away from the vanilla nforce4 and spend more money then they needed too for a good system.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:00 am    Post subject:
lothodon wrote:
i think there is an error in the sticky.

the vanilla nforce4 supports 1GHz HTT speeds, not 800MHz. The "locked" at 1GHz HTT speed is a good thing for overclocking, since you can overclock the cpu bus and keep the HTT in spec instead of resorting to dividers. As for the "slower" sata speeds, what currently offered sata drives can use the 1.5GB/sec let alone the 3.0GB/sec the nforce4 ultra and sli offer?

seems anandtech was paid off to push users away from the vanilla nforce4 and spend more money then they needed too for a good system.

Oh yes and I was paid off to make people think they needed a bigger pagefile so they would buy bigger hard drives.

You know, sometimes people can just be wrong.

(Late, I know. But what the hell.)
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PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:13 pm    Post subject:
So am I right in thinking that if I was to go amd64 and to keep my agp card nforce3 is the chipset of choice?

or is agp possible on nforce4?
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PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:16 pm    Post subject:
Chrysalis wrote:
So am I right in thinking that if I was to go amd64 and to keep my agp card nforce3 is the chipset of choice?

I'd rather get the Asrock's 939Dual-SATA2 giving you both AGP and PCI-E.
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or is agp possible on nforce4?

AFAIK, nope.
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