NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Preview

The second phase of NVIDIA’s two pronged attack on the gaming and enthusiast community today involves a new family of nForce chipsets for both the Intel and AMD platforms.

The nForce 600 family of products is spearheaded by the nForce 680i SLI and 680a SLI. Although the two products share a similar naming convention, they are in fact quite different. The nForce 680a SLI will be the initial foundation of AMD’s upcoming 4×4 platform. The chipset’s heritage originates in NVIDIA’s nForce Professional family of products, and its feature-set includes support four DDR2 memory channels (2 per CPU), quad PCI Express graphics slots, 12 SATA ports, and quad Gigabit Ethernet.

When it arrives sometime in the near future, we’ll be here to give you more of the juicy details. For now though, we’re going to focus on the nForce 680i SLI and a couple of the other new members in the 600i family…

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