Hello all. I happen to be one of the poor people who can't afford a ASUS SLI board, not to mention I have 0 interest in getting SLI as it seems like a rip off. Anywho, there are other areas of interest in a basic nForce 4 board, as well as the ultra. My question for all is, which one is better?
nForce 4 has PCI-express, but with AGP being fast enough for a 6600 GT card, I see no reason to fork over the extra cash on a new motherboard for this feature alone. The video card should last a good 2 years at least, and by then I'd prolly want a new motherboard anyway. And what is the point of having PCI-express 1X slots? 4X should be the minimal, otherwise you aren't really taking advantage of PCI express.
nForce 4 has gigabyte lan, but seriously, who has gigabyte switches. And who transfers enough data to actually need something faster then a T-100. I'm not saying it's useless, but for me, it's not a big selling feature either.
nForce 4 has SATA 2.0, and I have no idea what that is besides it's suppose to tranfer at 300mb/sec or something like that. Will this require new SATA 2.0 hard drives? But in any cause, I see very little benifit to having a drive this fast as installtions are limited by cd-rom speeds, network transfers are limited by lan speeds, and I don't cut and paste my mp3 collection to different folders very often.
nForce 4 has a firewall, but so does Windows XP and my router. So not a very big deal here either.
Basically you see my point. The extra features of the nForce 4 just aren't a big selling point to me. However, I am looking to OC a 90 nano core Athlon 64 3200+, and I want a board that can do it well. I'm not looking at doing any water cooling, just your typical heatsink and fan. I'd prolly get a bigger one then what comes in retail. I'm not so much looking at brands like Asus or MSI, but just the chipsets in general.
Can anyone sheld some light on if a nForce 4 is really worth going for besides just having the latest?
nForce 4 has PCI-express, but with AGP being fast enough for a 6600 GT card, I see no reason to fork over the extra cash on a new motherboard for this feature alone. The video card should last a good 2 years at least, and by then I'd prolly want a new motherboard anyway. And what is the point of having PCI-express 1X slots? 4X should be the minimal, otherwise you aren't really taking advantage of PCI express.
nForce 4 has gigabyte lan, but seriously, who has gigabyte switches. And who transfers enough data to actually need something faster then a T-100. I'm not saying it's useless, but for me, it's not a big selling feature either.
nForce 4 has SATA 2.0, and I have no idea what that is besides it's suppose to tranfer at 300mb/sec or something like that. Will this require new SATA 2.0 hard drives? But in any cause, I see very little benifit to having a drive this fast as installtions are limited by cd-rom speeds, network transfers are limited by lan speeds, and I don't cut and paste my mp3 collection to different folders very often.
nForce 4 has a firewall, but so does Windows XP and my router. So not a very big deal here either.
Basically you see my point. The extra features of the nForce 4 just aren't a big selling point to me. However, I am looking to OC a 90 nano core Athlon 64 3200+, and I want a board that can do it well. I'm not looking at doing any water cooling, just your typical heatsink and fan. I'd prolly get a bigger one then what comes in retail. I'm not so much looking at brands like Asus or MSI, but just the chipsets in general.
Can anyone sheld some light on if a nForce 4 is really worth going for besides just having the latest?
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