nForce4 AGP Motherboards: ‘Value Upgrade’ - MSI K8N Neo3, BIOSTAR NF4ST-A9

February 9th 2005 | nForce4

Despite the fact that chipset developers often get rid of AGP at all preferring PCI Express (with the exception of VIA PT880 Pro that supports both buses officially), motherboard vendors try to find better ways of implementing both interfaces into their products. Taking into account numerous similarities between AGP and PCI (the latter actually being a kind of the former), it´s not that hard to support older cards in the newer systems. One of the most popular chipset series of this kind is NVIDIA nForce4.

Perhaps, being a single-chip solution made it harder to add AGP to PCI Express. The first chip revisions couldn´t provide stable HyperTransport operation at 1 GHz. Despite this, such products are officially shipping to motherboard vendors under the nForce4-4x name, which makes them a very successful companion for Sempron Socket 754 processors supporting 800 MHz HyperTransport exactly.

nForce4 AGP motherboards: “value upgrade”
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nForce4 AGP Motherboards: ‘Value Upgrade’ - MSI K8N Neo3, BIOSTAR NF4ST-A9
Published in: nForce4 on 2005-02-09