NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Review

At the time of the announcement (and even after they are already in production) the nForce4 series offers the best functionality among discrete chipsets for AMD64 platform. It’s a pity this company does not manufacture chipsets for Pentium 4 (however, this situation will change soon) and stopped integrating graphics – I think that nForce4 with integrated video would have been in demand.

..Is this chipset worth running right away to a store for a motherboard based on this chipset? If you have been waiting to upgrade to PCI Express and you don’t need integrated video, the answer is yes, there will be nothing more interesting in the nearest future. On the other hand, if you already have an AMD64 based system, there is absolutely no reason for an immediate upgrade: you will get neither higher performance nor better functionality (for these days).

However, all these reasons don’t matter, if you have read this article in search of SLI. Indeed, as far as we know, using a couple of NVIDIA accelerators provides considerable gain. So if you are assembling an ultimatistic gaming computer, a motherboard on nForce4 SLI is definitely your choice, you will hardly regret it.

NVIDIA nForce4 Chipset Series for AMD64
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