nVidia to launch nForce 2 Ultra soon

DriveEuro · Apr 9, 2003, 12:06 AM

from Xbitlabs:

Our sources confirmed market speculations about NVIDIA’s possible launch of another chipset for Socket A processors with 400MHz FSB set to come this Spring. The Santa Clara, California-based company will reportedly add another powerful product to its chipset family that will be probably branded as something like nForce2 Ultra because it inherits most of the capabilities found in the predecessor.

Some current mainboards based on NVIDIA’s nForce2 core-logic products are already able to work with AMD Athlon XP processors featuring 400MHz EV-6 FSB, but in order to further improve performance and stability, NVIDIA will offer a more advanced nForce2 platform with native 400MHz PSB support. Obviously, other features of the nForce2, such as DASP, dual-channel memory controller and integrated GeForce4 MX graphics core will stay untouched.

We expect NVIDIA to add Serial ATA-150 and maybe even Gigabit Ethernet support to the new nForce2 MCP that will come with the so-called nForce2 Ultra in order to offer superior set of features compared to VIA KT400A and VIA KT600. NVIDIA’s upcoming nForce2 MCP will in this case support Parallel ATA-33/66/100/133, Serial ATA-150 ports, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet MACs, 3 FireWire (IEEE1394) ports, Dolby Digital encoder, as well as PCI and ACR buses. Later NVIDIA may go even further with implementing WLAN support in its MCPs (see this news-story).

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Apr 9, 2003, 03:22 AM

of course... as soon as i get MY mobo... sigh. Oh well.. i guess i may upgrade around the end of summer...

DriveEuro · Apr 9, 2003, 03:39 AM

General. If you read it you will see that you aren't missing out on much of anything.

Apr 9, 2003, 12:06 AM	#1
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	nVidia to launch nForce 2 Ultra soon from Xbitlabs: Our sources confirmed market speculations about NVIDIA’s possible launch of another chipset for Socket A processors with 400MHz FSB set to come this Spring. The Santa Clara, California-based company will reportedly add another powerful product to its chipset family that will be probably branded as something like nForce2 Ultra because it inherits most of the capabilities found in the predecessor. Some current mainboards based on NVIDIA’s nForce2 core-logic products are already able to work with AMD Athlon XP processors featuring 400MHz EV-6 FSB, but in order to further improve performance and stability, NVIDIA will offer a more advanced nForce2 platform with native 400MHz PSB support. Obviously, other features of the nForce2, such as DASP, dual-channel memory controller and integrated GeForce4 MX graphics core will stay untouched. We expect NVIDIA to add Serial ATA-150 and maybe even Gigabit Ethernet support to the new nForce2 MCP that will come with the so-called nForce2 Ultra in order to offer superior set of features compared to VIA KT400A and VIA KT600. NVIDIA’s upcoming nForce2 MCP will in this case support Parallel ATA-33/66/100/133, Serial ATA-150 ports, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet MACs, 3 FireWire (IEEE1394) ports, Dolby Digital encoder, as well as PCI and ACR buses. Later NVIDIA may go even further with implementing WLAN support in its MCPs (see this news-story). read more here __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Apr 9, 2003, 03:39 AM	Thread Starter #3
DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	General. If you read it you will see that you aren't missing out on much of anything. __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Apr 9, 2003, 03:22 AM	#2
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	of course... as soon as i get MY mobo... sigh. Oh well.. i guess i may upgrade around the end of summer...