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.