nForce5 Is Two Chip Design - C19 & MCP04

December 3rd 2004 | nForce4 Intel

WE LEARNED that the next generation Intel Nforce chipset comes in a two chip combo. Nvidia usually stuck to one chip design but I guess it ran out of space with its Nforce 5 Pentium 4 silicon. Nvidia managed to place all of its AMD Nforce chipsets on one chip.

We can now confirm that Nvidia’s Pentium 4 chipset has support for two PCIe graphic ports. Yes, it’s SLI compliant and that supports DDR 2 memory. It will be the first Pentium 4 SLI chipset. The only chipset to fight Nforce 5 is ATI’s own SLI chipset that is due to arrive in Q2 2005.

These two chips are supposedly interconnected with AMD Hypertransport marchitecture and that definitely comes as a huge surprise to us. An Intel chipset interconnected with AMD marchitecture - that’s the kind of cooperation that we would like to see more of in the industry.

the Inquirer
Nforce 5 is two chip design
C19 + MCP04 connected with Hypertransport

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nForce5 Is Two Chip Design - C19 & MCP04
Published in: nForce4 Intel on 2004-12-03