Whats the big deal with Nforce?

[Bigdude]

Why all the talk about it? Isn't it just a board with a geforce integrated?

 

[Boonesmi]

🙂 nope, its alot more

 

[Bigdude]

Thanks for the vast amount of information.

 

[tazdevl]

The architecture of the board is entirely new. People are NOT excited about the graphics core, it's a glorified GF2.

The board has dual channel memory banks (2 slots for CPU , 1 for peripherals) = lots of memory bandwidth; AMD hypertransport technology hooking up on-board peripherals (reduces bandwidth and latency) = no 33 MHZ PCI buses to deal with; integrated LAN and Audio (audio will rival Audigy) uses the secondary memory bank and doesn't share the CPU memory= bandwidth again; DASP which is essentially hardware pre-fetch (so it anticipates what data will be needed and gets it) = reduced latency, kind of like pre-fetch that will be featured in the Palomino desktop CPU's.

The motherboard has the potential to rival the KT266A's perfomance.

I suggest you do a search for nForce in the forums and read a bit more to understand all the technologies behind the board.

Here' are a couple of articles for your edification:

Article #1
Article #2
Article #3

There are several more out there. But these will give you an idea how powerful this motherboard might be.

 

[Bigdude]

Thanks, I'm taking a wait and see attitude to see if it's any good.

 

[geek167]

I'll have to eat you! It will decrease the cost of my upgrading for all my Computers that are running the TNT2 M64! I have LAN Parties with my friends once a month. And I provide at least 5 extra computers. And some of my friends bring their own cause they love their super systems (I actually built those also for them). And then I have mine with a Geforce256. I am getting an Geforce Titanium 500 to replace my Geforce256. The nForce is cheap and fast enough to run basically all games right now. Don't diss it!