NVIDIA nForce4 vs. ATI 200 Series - AMD64 PCI Express Chipset Shootout

While nVidia and ATI have had a very heated graphics card battle over the past few years, both are well and truly making themselves noticed in the motherboard chipset market in another battle which is surely set to heat up over the next few years as well. ATI released their first mainstream chipset last year for Pentium 4 and nVidia continued making a name for themselves with the nForce 2 Ultra 400 and nForce 3 chipsets for the AMD platform.

We will be looking at the two latest chipsets to hit the Socket 939 processor market today which is the nForce 4 from nVidia and the 200 Series from ATI. Both chipsets are designed to give you the best performance possible out of your 939 processor although nVidia are already on their second Athlon 64 chipset whereas ATI is only at their first attempt not only for the Athlon 64 but also AMD so nVidia has some experience behind them which may well give them the upper hand at the end of the day.

…ATI have done a good job for their first AMD64 chipset and we are sure that we will see them come back with more chipsets and force this coming year with more features but for Socket 939 processor owners wanting to start using PCI Express and a whole bunch of other classy features built into the chipset, we can’t really go past recommending the nForce 4. Now we just have to wait for nVidia to actually deliver the nForce 4 into the retail market – let’s play the waiting game but hopefully you guys don’t have to wait too long for this to happen.

nVidia wins this battle for now but we are just itching to see what ATI can come up with this year.

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AMD64 PCI Express Chipsets – nVidia nForce 4 vs. ATI 200 Series