Whereas the official advertisement of agreement INTEL/nVidia date hardly 2 weeks, one knows some now more about the future chipset Crush19, intended for Pentium 4. Ghost with a traditional Northbridge/Southbridge architecture, Crush19, planned at the same time as the launching of Lakeport of INTEL, is mainly awaited for his Northbridge. Indeed, the functionalities of Southbridge MCP04 are known since the launching of the nForce 4 and should be almost identical level functionalities. It is today of Northbridge Crush19 that we obtain more information. Supporting Prescott on Socket LGA775, Crush19 is compatible with the FSB 800 and 1066. It will also support the future Dual CPU Core of INTEL, Smithfield. All technologies à.la.mode like the EM64T, the XD Bit or the EIST will be supported without problem. Level report, one learns that Crush19 will support nothing any more but the DDR-II, from 400 to 667 MHz, finishing with the passage the management of the DDR-I.

Niveau PCIExpress, it is well on the SLI that nVidia more will try to promote. In order not to go on the plat bands of INTEL in the immediate future, Crush19 will be a chipset SLI dice the departure, and thus only high da ranges. The variations "general public" are currently not envisaged. With 20 lanes PCIe, Crush19 will support same mode SLI exactly as the nForce 4, with a passage in 8x/8x. Dernier point, the interface with Southbridge is consisted a HyperTransport bond, as one could suspect it.

In addition to C19, another chipset now starts to be samplé by nVidia, Crush51. Waited a long time, the chipset C51 is in fact a variation of the nForce 4 equipped with a core graphic integrated DirectX 9.0. Contrary to the nForce 4, it will not act more than one Individual Chip, but well of Northbridge. The southbridge is currently known under the name of MCP51 and will be a version of entry of range of the MCP04.

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