[轉貼]nForce4 細節透露?
 

轉自微型計算機 2004年7月15日 第236期. No. 14 P.8

日前有消息透露nVidia目前正在全力開發nForce4晶片組, 其研發代號為C8K-04, 它將支持Socket 939, 754和940全系列AMD64處理器. 此外, nForce4晶片組將集成1~2條PCI Express x16插槽, 支持GeForce 6800 SLI雙顯示卡, 該晶片組還將集成SoundStorm2音效技術. 相應的產品將在今年第四季上市.
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我用Google搜尋了一下相關新聞發現主要都是一些大陸媒體在互轉文章, 所以可能又是大陸芭樂文章. 我覺得唯一比較顯眼且具公信力的文章是底下這篇.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17058
More details revealed about Nforce 4

32 PCIE lanes, SP-10 - SoundStorm 2, up to eight way MP


By Fuad Abazovic: Wednesday 07 July 2004, 07:41

OUR CROATIAN FRIEND Theo Valich decided to share some information with us regarding Nforce 4 chipset, the one we mentioned last week.
The chipset will be Socket 754/939 and 940 capable and will have multiprocessing capabilities. You will be able to use it as a single CPU platform. And you will also be able to use it as a two way, four way and up to a maximum of eight way as a multiprocessing platform.

This chipset will support a maximum of 32 PCI-E lanes says Theo, has suggested 1x16 X PCI-E slot, one 1 x 8X for SLI card and four times one lane for peripheral devices. This definitely confirms our previous claim that Nforce 4 will be a platform which will let you plug two Geforce 6 series PCI-E cards into a machine and end up with a much cheaper MP machine than those based on Intel's "Tumwater" chipset.

The chipset will support five PCI slots, two times Nvidia Gbit Ethernet and Nvidia RAID, similar in function to Intel's "Matrix Array", says Theo.

The Nforce 4, CK8-04 will support eight S-ATA drives and six P-ATA drives and for additional connectivity you will have no less then 10 USB 2.0 ports.

As for sound freaks, this chipset will feature SP-10, Soundstorm 2 audio that will be Dolby Digital 5.1 compliant and it will be able to do EX effects at 20 GFlops processing power. Soundstorm 2 supports 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 speaker configurations.


It sounds good doesn't it? But it will arrive towards the very end of this year. µ

照這樣來看也許我該忍到年底再決定. :rolleyes: :think:

NFORCERSHQ的追蹤報導
http://www.nforcershq.com/modules.p...rticle&sid=1695
NVIDIA nForce4 - PCI Express, All K8 support & SoundStorm 2 *
Topic: NVIDIA Posted by nForcer
Monday, June 28 @ GMT Standard Time
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.

Nvidia PCI Express stuff was scheduled for Q4 and it hasn't changed from that so far. We wrote Nvidias C8K-04 captured in living hues and now we know that this is the Nforce 4 project.

Last time we asked Nvidia's Drew Henry director of this chipset business about Nforce 5 for Intel CPU's he said laughing where is Nforce 4. This is your answer Drew.

Nvidia goes for Nforce 4
PCI Express, all K8 support and Sound Storm 2 @ the Inquirer

* Update

Our NVIDIA contact was asked for confirmation of the details in the INQ's article, here's the reply:

"There may be some truth in there, but none of it has anything to do with audio. "

So, sadly, no SoundStorm2 on the horizon for nForce4...

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所以沒有SoundStorm2... :jolin:
沒差, 反正還有A2ZS!! :D :like:

看來這個晶片組出來之後，要餵飽6800U SLI，大概只能靠FX-57了吧..........(小弟覺得FX-55餵不飽.......)

自從雙通道出來後...記憶體都要買2條
nForce4的雙PCIE X16出了後...後果更恐怖

還好以後會出雙核心CPU....但....Money...

剛剛熊熊注意到本文好像沒有提到IEEE1394... :jolin: :rolleyes:

Anandtech的討論串
http://forums.anandtech.com/message...MVIEWTMP=Linear

剛剛在別處看到一篇寫nForce4最高可接8顆CPU.