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hotlips69

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Does anyone have any news on when the nforce5 series is going to be announced as it's been over a year since the nforce4 series came out.

 
New chipsets don't come out all that often. If I had to guess, I'd say we'll see nforce5 around the same time that we see Socket M2 Athlon 64's.
 
I would think maybe socket M2 might lead to a change of chipset, but whether this will also lead to an updated nomenclature is anyones guess.
They did change 3 -> 4 for 754 -> 939 though, so I guess maybe 4 -> 5 for 939 to M2 (940)
 
Stop taking the p*ss...

I didn't even realise that I had posted in bold originally and it was a genuine question as I don't know if its worth waiting a while longer before my major mobo upgrade?
 
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does making an entire post bold somehow convey your thoughts better?
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WOW I CAN TYPE IT BOLD!
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OMFG BOLD AND ITALICS!!!!@!
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bold, italics, highlight and underline........yay
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Yeah, I should to that. more often. :evil:
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
I would think maybe socket M2 might lead to a change of chipset, but whether this will also lead to an updated nomenclature is anyones guess.
They did change 3 -> 4 for 754 -> 939 though, so I guess maybe 4 -> 5 for 939 to M2 (940)
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No they didn't. I'm typing this on a Socket 939 nForce3 Ultra system.
 
Originally posted by: hotlips69
Does anyone have any news on when the nforce5 series is going to be announced as it's been over a year since the nforce4 series came out.
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March 16th 2006.
 
No they didn't. I'm typing this on a Socket 939 nForce3 Ultra system.
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Right, the main difference between the nforce3 versus nforce4 is that the nf4 has PCI-E, while the nf3 has AGP/PCI.

However, socket M is going to use DDR2 memory, and it would seem like this would force a similar revision of the chipset (although maybe not due to the integrated memory controller).
 
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No they didn't. I'm typing this on a Socket 939 nForce3 Ultra system.
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Right, the main difference between the nforce3 versus nforce4 is that the nf4 has PCI-E, while the nf3 has AGP/PCI-E.

However, socket M is going to use DDR2 memory, and it would seem like this would force a similar revision of the chipset (although maybe not due to the integrated memory controller).
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Exactly, the chipset doesn't matter as long as the CPU still uses a HyperTransport link to communicate with the chipset.
 
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Originally posted by: Some1ne
No they didn't. I'm typing this on a Socket 939 nForce3 Ultra system.
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Right, the main difference between the nforce3 versus nforce4 is that the nf4 has PCI-E, while the nf3 has AGP/PCI-E.

However, socket M is going to use DDR2 memory, and it would seem like this would force a similar revision of the chipset (although maybe not due to the integrated memory controller).
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Exactly, the chipset doesn't matter as long as the CPU still uses a HyperTransport link to communicate with the chipset.
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The mobo layouts would have to get re-worked though and a new BIOS written to deal with whatever changes the memory controller brings(ala nForce 3's and Rev. E CPUs). So it will take some work, but otherwise there's no good reason to replace the nForce 4 chipset at this point, especially now that there's the dual-16x variant on the way.
 
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