Chapter 1 - Introduction To Nforce Motherboards; Motherboard Features - EVGA NFORCE4 123-K8-NF47-XX User Manual

Chapter 1
Introduction of nForce4 Motherboards
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Motherboard Features

Motherboards based on NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x16 technology support the
innovative 64-bit AMD Athlon64 FX and dual core multi-tasking Athlon64 X2
processors with HyperTransport Technology. The SLI x16 version of the
motherboard series delivers leading-edge performance with both of the benefits
from 64-bit multi-tasking dual core AMD processors and NVIDIA Scalable Link
Interface (SLI) Technology with the latest Dual PCI-Express for NVIDIA Dual
Graphic Processing Unit ready platform. Utilizing the 64-bit multi-tasking socket
939 solution and the dual channel PC3200 DDR memory size expandable to
4.0GB, this motherboard series meets the demands of computing in the future.
These motherboards carry the advanced NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x16 chipset with
1000 MHz HyperTransport system bus of data transferring and provided with
133MHz / 166MHz / 200MHz memory clock frequency for DDR266/DDR333/
DDR400 DDR Module with dual channel capability. The NVIDIA nForce4 single
chipset offers ULTRA ATA 133 and Serial ATA RAID 0, 1, 0+1 functions to
accelerate hard disk drives and guarantee data security without failure in
advanced computing applications.
The motherboard provides dual Gigabit LAN by using the NVIDIA Giga-LAN
and Marvell Giga-LAN controllers both supporting 10M/100M/1Gbps data
transfer rate and full duplex or half duplex transportation. The embedded 8-
TM
channel AC'97 CODEC is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards
and offers you home cinema quality and complete software compatibility.
Two 16X PCI-Express graphics slots deliver up to 4Gbyte/sec data transfer rate
at each relative direction which is fully compatible with the latest NVIDIA SLI
Technology. And, two PCI-Express x1 slots offers expandability for future PCI-
E devices at 512Mbyte/sec concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than
PCI at 133Mbyte/sec, tackling the most demanding multimedia tasks.
The embedded USB controller has the capability of supporting up to 10 USB
2.0 ports, delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth each.
And the embedded Firewire controller allows connection and use of IEE1394
compliant devices.
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