Nvidia goes for Nforce 4

Nvidia goes for Nforce 4

Daniel Fleshbourne on 28 June 2004 - 19:14 · 17 comments & 1093 views

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NFORCE 4 will be the name of the project that will finally bring PCI Express to the Athlon K8 market. This chipset will be socket 754/939 ready and 940 compatible and all CPUs Athlon 64s, FX, Sempr0ns and Opterons will work on it. The platform will have one to two PCI express 16 slots making this Geforce 6800 SLI mode possible for not quite as much crazy money as you'll have to invest in Tumwater and Xeon CPU. The good news for Sound Storm lovers is that this chipset finally features these nice audio capabilities. It's now called Sound Storm 2 - no surprise there - but we don’t know anything about its features as yet.

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(1 reply) #1 Martog on 28 Jun 2004 - 19:16

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Sempr0ns

Haha, a good new CPU huh?

NForce 4 sounds like it will be nice, i wonder if anything else besides PCI-E, Nvidia SLI, and SS2.

#1.1 sadatkarim on 28 Jun 2004 - 19:29

naughty inquirer...

#2 Zeni on 28 Jun 2004 - 19:23

Mmmm, smells like a winner.

#3 Tikimotel on 28 Jun 2004 - 19:30

flash demo on www.nvidia.com, also shows a one cpu mainboard.... hmm interresting.
so maybe it's not limited to Xeon mainboards after all...

#4 digistil on 28 Jun 2004 - 19:31

Wow, nice Nvidia! Too bad I won't be able to afford the setup for at least a year after it's release (ur talkin' $1000 just on the video cards, not to mention u'll need a super fast CPU to feed the beast).

#5 stncttr908 on 28 Jun 2004 - 19:47

Bringing back the SoundStorm = good idea.

#6 voidunknown on 28 Jun 2004 - 20:04

Sounds great. I'm glad there is someone besides VIA and Intel to make mobo chipsets.

#7 DirtyLarry on 28 Jun 2004 - 20:32

i am upgrading soon... for sure...

#8 Rudzer on 28 Jun 2004 - 21:08

The best in all that is the coming back of Soundstorm for sure

(3 replies) #9 amdme2600 on 28 Jun 2004 - 21:26

This sounds cool I love the N-force 2 400 ultra and now N-force 4 thats going to be cool. As for the soundstorm I dont know why you all are happy about who cares about that.

#9.1 ev0| on 28 Jun 2004 - 22:49

what are you an idiot or something ? why would you not want high end dolby certified 5.1 at 24 bits that can also do pro audio ASIO recording built onto your motherboard instead of spending another 100 to 400 beans on a standalone card for pro audio, and another 200 on a gaming card....

#9.2 Zeni on 28 Jun 2004 - 23:49

Exactly, the highpoint of the nForce chipset is the Soundstorm APU, it's essentially the tipping point for most people using A64's, as the current run for nVidia is a little lacking in comparison with VIA's offering.

Soundstorm = Teh Win.

#9.3 divertom15 on 29 Jun 2004 - 02:04

Lets put it this way sound storm is SO GOOD there was talks about having a pci add-in card for intel/and via based setups were you cant have nforce 2 or and combo and you use a via and amd or intel and intel

#10 TheReaperMan on 28 Jun 2004 - 22:08

i care cause it came on board it is one top sound product

#11 ArtOf_War on 28 Jun 2004 - 23:21

its always good to get good sound as it is, besides it;s marketing to fight Azalia

#12 JVillanueva on 29 Jun 2004 - 09:22

maaan, and i'm still running an old nforce 1 board...but nvidia is the shizzle!

#13 jpcahn on 30 Jun 2004 - 00:12

If you could hear Soundstorm outputting 5.1 digital to my Sony Receiver you would definitely know what the big deal is about. I have basically avoided getting an Athlon 64 system because of this one reason. Funny how they announced this just as I am making my last car payment this month. Hmmm wonder what to do with the extra cash next month...

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