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- The correct title of this article is nForce 600. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
The nForce 600 chipset will be released in the first half of November, probably coinciding with the GeForce 8 series launch on November 8, 2006. The nForce 600 will support Intel's LGA775 socket and AMD's Socket 4x4 and replaces the nForce 500 series.
[edit] Models
[edit] nForce 680a SLI
Specially made for the 4x4 platform proposed by AMD, providing a total of two CPUs and multiple graphic cards configuation (SLi) working on a single chipset.
[edit] Features
- AMD Socket 4x4 (Dual Dual-core Socket F)
- Enthusiast multiple-GPU segment
- Support for HyperTransport 2.0
- 2 northbridges as System Platform Processor (SPP), each providing one x16 and one x8 PCI-E lanes
- Total of 4 PCI-E x16 slots
- Additional PCI-E slots support
- Support of a total of 56 PCI-E lanes
- PCI slots
- Support up to 4 non-registered DDR2 DIMM modules
- Support for EPP memory
- Support up to 12 SATA2 harddisks
- Support up to 2 RAID 5 configuration
- 4 onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports
- NVIDIA FirstPacket Technology
- Support up to 20 USB 2.0 ports
- Estimated price US$200 or more
[edit] nForce 680i SLI
NVIDIA nForce® 680i SLI media and communications processors (MCPs) is the top of the line motherboard for Intel users in the nForce 600 series.
[edit] Features
- Support for Quad Core CPUs and 1333MHz Front Side Bus
- Support for 1200MHz SLI-Ready Memory with EPP
- Support for up to 46 PCI Express (PCIe) lanes.
- Support for up to 10 USB 2.0 ports.
- Support for 6 3Gb/s SATA and 2 PATA drives, which can be linked together in any combination of SATA and PATA to form a RAID 0, 1, 5, or 0+1.
- NVIDIA nTune, a tool for easy overclocking and timing configurations.
- HDA (Azalia) Audio.
- Dual Onboard Gigabit Ethernet.
- NVIDIA FirstPacket and DualNet
[edit] nForce 650i SLI
- Intel LGA 775
- Performance/mainstream dual-GPU segment
- Estimated price $150 or less
[edit] nForce 650i Ultra
- Intel LGA 775
- Performance/mainstream single-GPU segment
- Estimated price $150 or less
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