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	NForce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At launch the nForce offered innovative integrated features not found on other Athlon chipsets of the period, including optional integrated video based on the GeForce2MX core, dual-channel DDR SDRAM support, and high quality integrated sound based on NVIDIA's own sound chip.
		The successor to the nForce was the nForce2, which was one of the top performance chipsets in the Athlon motherboard market of the day.
		However, it was patchy driver support that let the first board down in many respects, with optimised IDE support introduced then withdrawn, and until version 3.13, the much heralded SoundStorm audio was seen to crackle under heavily loaded scenarios.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NForce (386 words)

	Van's Hardware Journal: Inside nForce
		The nForce is a highly integrated chipset targeted for the AMD Athlon line of processors.
		The nForce may be the springboard AMD has needed to penetrate the lucrative business segments which have thus far largely resisted the company's efforts.
		If the nForce has a weakness it appears to be in business applications, but even in its worst suit means the nForce manages a toss up with its strongest competitors.
	216.194.77.198 /articles/2001/july/010716_Inside_nForce/010716_Inside_nForce.htm (3141 words)

	V I P E R L A I R .com - nForce 4 Technology Overview
		This was followed by the nForce 2, which produced a much better showing than the original nForce by actually being released on time and having some features and functionality that set them aside from the competition.
		The nForce 4 SLI and nForce 4 Ultra are essentially the same boards, supporting Socket 939, with the exception of the nForce 4 SLI being capable of using two NVIDIA SLI supporting graphics cards.
		The nForce 4 will obviously be the basic value board much like what PC manufacturers include in the majority of their systems, and will be offered in both Socket 754 and likely Socket 939 as well.
	www.viperlair.com /reviews/cpu_mobo/nvidia/nf4/index.shtml (3487 words)

	nV News - NVIDIA nForce Preview
		NVIDIA has taken a building block approach in developing the nForce chipset which represents a culmination of work on graphics processing units for the personal computer and the system architecture for the Xbox game console.
		TwinBank is the memory bandwidth traffic cop for the nForce and is based on a crossbar memory architecture reminiscent of the crossbar archtecture on the GeForce3.
		nForce based motherboards are expected to debut around the 3rd quarter of this year and NVIDIA has launch partnerships with Abit, Asus, Gigabyte, Mitac, and MSI.
	www.nvnews.net /previews/nforce/nforce.shtml (1346 words)

	NForce Performance Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		NVIDIA's nForce chipset has sparked a considerable amount of interest from the hardware enthusiast community since it was announced last June.
		NVIDIA has released figures of its own regarding nForce's performance, but those were preliminary numbers taken months ago on older Athlon platforms.
		Visually, little has changed in the nForce reference design since it was unveiled at Computex earlier this summer.
	www.firingsquad.com /hardware/nforceperfpreview (589 words)

	CNN.com - NVidia's NForce chip debuts in MicronPC system - November 8, 2001
		MicronPC is happy to have the first NForce PC, and NVidia is equally happy to have MicronPC as its first U.S. customer to launch a system with the chip set.
		It's the NForce's capability to offer good integrated graphics through its unique architecture that will attract more mainstream and budget-minded PC vendors to try the chip set, says NVidia's Lim.
		Krewell says it's too early to tell if the wait for NForce was worthwhile, but industry buzz definitely surrounds the chip set.
	www.cnn.com /2001/TECH/ptech/11/08/nvidia.micronpc.idg/index.html (937 words)

	X-bit labs - Hardware news - First NVIDIA nForce Benchmarks.
		Moreover, we should point out that the nForce based mainboard tested was the reference solution from NVIDIA based on the Revision B chipset, which is claimed to be the final one.
		The No 1 attraction, of course, was the 128bit memory bus, which provided the nForce 420 chipset with twice as high memory bus bandwidth as that of any other existing Socket A DDR chipsets.
		So, we can state that nForce chipset is far not the best solutions for those Socket A systems, which do not require any high-performance graphics.
	www.xbitlabs.com /news/other/display/news1591.html (567 words)

	NVIDIA nForce 4 and AMD Athlon 64 4000+/FX-55 Preview, Page One
		While the nForce 2 was not the overwhelming success that NVIDIA hoped it would be, it did firmly plant NVIDIA into the market, and more importantly into the hearts and minds of consumers and enthusiasts.
		This put the nForce 3 150 in a very bad light, even though most benchmarks have shown that performance was not affected by the cut-down HT link to the processor.
		The nForce 3 150 did sell well, but it did not take up the majority of the market that NVIDIA was hoping for.
	www.penstarsys.com /previews/chipset/nvidia/nf4/index.html (958 words)

	Welcome to AnandTech.com [ Article: NVIDIA nForce Computex 2001 Preview] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But with nForce, the integrated graphics really isn't that bad and, in fact, the technology in the rest of the chipset is so promising that you'll probably want this chipset in your system even if you upgrade to an external graphics card.
		Remember that the integrated graphics on the nForce uses system memory, so 32MB of main memory is reserved at boot time for the frame buffer, although this may be a BIOS configurable option.
		When we heard about the 128-bit memory interface on the nForce, we assumed that memory would have to be installed in matched pairs, but NVIDIA's tech docs state that this is not the case.
	www.anandtech.com /printarticle.html?i=1484 (3584 words)

	NVIDIA nForce Reference Board Review
		The nForce chipset supports SDR SDRAM but the sample we got has no connectors for this memory type.
		The nForce works with the memory better than the KT266A by 10—20% in case of 64-bit access and by 15—25% in case of 128-bit access.
		With the GeForce3 the performance is limited by the accelerator, the external GeForce2 MX works much faster on the nForce due to a quicker memory access, while the integrated video yields to it (especially with a 64-bit bus).
	www.digit-life.com /articles/nforcerefboard (2203 words)

	NVIDIA nForce DDR chipset
		The nForce's performance with 64bit memory access is nearly the same as that of GeForce2 MX200 based cards, and with the 128bit memory access the nForce performs nearly 25% faster than the GeForce2 MX200.
		The nForce APU is the Audio Processing Unit, one of the components of the Media and Communications Processor (MCP).
		So, the nForce APU contains an integrated Dolby Interactive Content Encoder based on the programmable DSP with a data format converter from a fixed form into a form with a floating point (fix-to-float format engine).
	www.digit-life.com /articles/nvidianforce/index.html (4460 words)

	IGN: nForce 4 Unveiled
		October 19, 2004 - NVIDIA today is unveiling its nForce 4 chipset, the newest in its family of motherboard controller solutions.
		In fact, a few of the nForce 4's most impressive features are geared towards saving system modders precious time tuning their systems, both in the initial setup as well as problem solving.
		The nForce 4 is a PCI-Express-based chipset supporting AMD Athlon 64, 64 FX and Sempron processors.
	gear.ign.com /articles/558/558044p1.html (580 words)

	[ Hardware.Info ] - nVidia nForce 3 250 Moederborden Vergelijkingstest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Deze chipset is de opvolger van de nForce 3 150, een chipset die nogal wat tekort kwam, zoals het ontbreken van Serial ATA en de hypertransportbus tussen de moederbord en chipset, die niet de volle bandbreedte benutte.
		Het enige verschil tussen de twee varianten is dat de nForce 3 250 Gb een geïntegreerde 1 Gbit netwerkcontroller heeft, met ingebouwde firewall, die volgens de expert geschikt is om gebruikt te worden als personal firewall.
		Een andere interessante eigenschap van de nForce 3 250 chipset is de RAID functionaliteit.
	www.hardware.info /reviews.php?id=485 (392 words)

	Registry resets every reboot after installing nForce drivers. Help - hardCOREware Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For instance, if my IE homepage is Google when I install the nForce drivers, if at any time in the future I change my homepage, it will revert back to Google when I reboot.
		If I remove the nForce drivers with drivercleaner everything works fine, the problem is gone.
		The weird thing is that about 10% of the time it saves my changes (homepage, resolution, etc), but the rest of the time it doesn't.
	www.hardcoreware.net /forum/showthread.php?t=11042 (371 words)

	Overclockers Australia - MSI K7N420 Pro - nForce Motherboard
		In this case, where most PC chipsets deal with memory sticks individually (and therefore send 64 bits at a time), NVIDIA claim their chipset, if two sticks of ram are present, will talk to them simultaneously allowing 128-bit access.
		Note that only the nForce 420D chipset (as used on this MSI motherboard) has the TwinBank architecture, in the form of 2 separate 64-bit memory controllers.
		Now that your head is about to explode from the theory of all that is nForce, let's jolt back to reality and take a look at the physical layout and features of this particular nForce board from MSI, the K7N420 Pro.
	www.overclockers.com.au /techstuff/r_msi_k7n420_pro (1324 words)

	Computer Power User Article - NVIDIA nForce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		nForce is split in two parts, the IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) and the MCP (Media and Communications Processor).
		Benchmarks I ran on WinXP with an Athlon 1800+ XP showed nForce tied with, and in some cases slightly ahead of, the VIA KT266A platform when using a GeForce3, not the on-board video.
		Because performance is so close between the KT266A and nForce, price should become the key factor, unless you aren't a gamer and therefore covet the added savings the on-board video brings.
	www.computerpoweruser.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fhardware%2F2001%2Fh0411%2F90h11%2Easp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&articleid=11607 (793 words)

	Ace's Hardware
		The core of the nForce IGP (Northbridge) is comprised of the:
		The nForce DASP runs at the much lower speeds, probably the clockspeed of the chipset (133 MHz), and the DASP's cache is only 64 KB big (according to Van's Hardware).
		So while the prefetched data from the Athlon's XP unit is already in the L2-cache, the data in the DASP cache must still travel from the chipset's northbridge to the CPU.
	www.aceshardware.com /read.jsp?id=45000232 (723 words)

	Nvidia to flex new nForce chipsets \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Nvidia has scheduled a press conference for Monday, at which it promises to reveal a new "digital media platform." Analysts said the announcement is likely to involve a new version of the nForce line, which is due for a revamp.
		Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron said changes in the new nForce are likely to focus on chipset functions--including support for new connection technologies such as USB 2.0--rather than graphics enhancements.
		Glaskowsky said nForce has sold better than many expected and estimated Nvidia will begin making money from the chipset business with the second generation of nForce chips.
	zdnet.com.com /2100-1103-942694.html (879 words)

	3DsoundSurge Review: NVIDIA nForce APU - Summary Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As this is a reference review of the nForce APU audio system, bundles will vary depending on the specific motherboard you are buying.
		Most noteworthy and somewhat surprising given our expectation of a stock Sensaura reverb engine, the reverb quality while not quite as consistent as the Live or Audigy, is clearly the overall best of all Creative's competitors and a clear plus of gaming on the nForce.
		We go into much more detail about the NVIDIA nForce APU and how it compares to some of the other popular sound cards in this review.
	www.3dsoundsurge.com /reviews/nForce (592 words)

	NVIDIA nForce
		Der nForce 420 wird mit zwei 64 Bit DDR-Speicherschnittstellen ausgestattet, was eindeutig mehr bringt.
		Der nForce 220 unterstützt bis zu 1GB (2 DIMMs) und der nForce 420 1,5 GB (3 DIMMs), wobei man mit zwei DDR-Modulen in den Genuss der TwinBank Architektur kommt.
		Die Chipsets lauten somit schlussendlich nForce 220 und nForce 420, wobei je nach integrierter APU noch ein "D" angehängt wird.
	www.wcm.at /printer.php?id=2552 (1024 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If, when the nForce arrived, all this technology worked as well as NVIDIA proposed, they would no doubt have a killer product on their hands.
		The pairing of nForce and Windows XP is a perfect match--the world's best platform processor powering the world's most advanced operating system.
		Because this particular nForce board is not a retail product, we won't be spending too much time scrutinizing the layout and commenting on build quality.
	www.hothardware.com /hh_files/Motherboards/nforce_reference.shtml (1110 words)

	Computer Graphics World - Nvidia nForce Professional Powers HP Visualization Workstation
		Nvidia nForce Professional MCPs with Nvidia Quadro graphics boards offer a flexible and scalable architecture, enabling NVIDIA and its partners to design a broad range of industry solutions for professionals in a wide range of market segments.
		Nvidia nForce Professional MCPs are the first and only platform PCI-Express core-logic solutions for AMD Opteron processor-based computing platforms, offering full 32-bit and 64-bit support for Linux and Microsoft Windows environments.
		Nvidia nForce Professional MCPs employ a scalable, innovative, single-chip architecture that offers a range of technological capabilities, such as the latest RAID storage technology and native Gigabit Ethernet controller that improves overall system efficiency and performance, making it an ideal solution for industrial-level computing.
	cgw.pennnet.com /Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=18&ARTICLE_ID=221271 (553 words)

	Linux nForce Driver - IA32
		To simplify installation, the suite of nForce Linux drivers are bundled into a single package.
		If you are using one of the distributions mentioned below, and haven't installed a different kernel (or significantly modified the default one), the installation will be very simple.
		If you don't use one of the distributions listed or have a custom kernel, please choose one of the alternative installation packages.
	www.nvidia.com /object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html (321 words)

	Sharky Extreme
		When the NVIDIA nForce 420 chipset was first announced, the performance crowd had some very high hopes for the technology.
		When nForce motherboards first started appearing, the performance edge was there, but not as much as many had hoped.
		Their new NV7-133R is no different, as it uses the basic nForce 415-D chipset but includes a host of additional features such as ATA-133, IDE RAID, and USB 2.0, while incorporating the various integrated audio and LAN features of the nForce.
	www.sharkyextreme.com /hardware/motherboards/article.php/1024901 (536 words)

	nforce forum request - nV News Forums
		It's just right now there is bugger all sports going on at the moment in the US or europe to have enough ppl contributing in it.
		not all mobo's are based off the nforce chipset though thats the thing..
		I can see the point of an nforce forum, because this is nvnvews, not vianews, or sisnews..
	www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=31832 (521 words)

	LinuxHardware.org \| NVIDIA's nForce Professional: The Chips and Motherboards
		We'll first be looking at the new NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 MCP and 2050 chips and find out what we have to look forward to on new motherboards.
		The 2200 MCP will be found on every new nForce Professional motherboard while the 2050 is an optional chip which can be added to give the motherboard additional I/O capabilities.
		Now we'll take a look at how the new nForce Professional chips are materializing on motherboards that you may be able to purchase in the near future.
	www.linuxhardware.org /article.pl?sid=05/01/26/2240240&mode=thread (3301 words)

	HTPCnews Forums -> nForce Audio Buyers Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the nForce world there are two main southbridge chips that the nForce northbridge can connect to.
		In the original nForce there was the MCP and the MCP-D, the MCP was a basic southbridge with just, LAN, IDE, USB 1.1, and basic software supported audio.
		Many microATX boards are made to be inexpensive and highly integrated, so when buying a motherboard with the nForce IGP (which has integrated video) be extra careful, only a small group of IGP motherboards use the MCP-T, and only 3 microATX motherboards use the MCP-D or MCP-T currently.
	htpcnews.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1933 (1304 words)

	Nforce still not ready enough for some (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Motherboard manufacturers the INQUIRER had lengthy discussions with earlier this week, and who requested anonymity for their companies, said that stepping B02 of the Nforce chipset is still not stable enough for products to be released yet.
		Nvidia is expected to release some retail boards using the Nforce chipset this month, and Asus has a board which does not use all of the features, already in preparation.
		But the manufacturers, who also have large OEM businesses and distributor partners, say they are still unsatisfied with the Nforce chipset and will continue validating the product before releasing any boards into the market.
	www.theinquirer.net /14090105.htm (210 words)

	Tweaking The nForce GPU
		So my assumption is that the integrated GPU of the nForce is limited in the same way, since the GPU is a GF2MX (2 pipelines vs. 4 pipelines in a full GF2).
		So even with twinbank, at 133MHz, the GPU is probably limited to 2.1GB/s, which is fine since that will allocate all the available memory bandwidth between the GPU and CPU with neither one suffering from starvation.
		But first I should mention that which nForce board you have could make a big difference when doing this, as the Asus nForce boards have a HSF on the IGP (northbridge) but the MSI has simply a heatsink.
	www.overclockers.com /tips871 (1051 words)

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