n Force 4 Motherboard Chipset Jesse Printz Bryant

n. Force 4 Motherboard Chipset Jesse Printz Bryant Newby CIS 462 2/22/05

Outline ● ● ● Socket 939 What is a Chipset? n. Force 4 Chipset n. Force 4 Features Explination Compeditors Recommendation

What is Socket 939 ● ● ● CPU Specification Supports AMD Athlon 64 Processors 64 -Bit

Why Socket 939? ● ● ● 90 nm design 64 -Bit Future Expansion

What is a Chipset? ● ● ● Architecture Microchips that support the CPU, usually several controllers that govern how information travels between the processor and other components. Tom's Hardware Guide: – ● If the CPU is the brain of the PC, the chipset is the heart Standard Given to Motherboard Manufactures

Chipset Example

What is n. Force 4? ● ● ● Chipset Optimized for Graphics and Video Standard for Motherboard Manufactures n. Vidia's Fourth Installment of Graphics Chipsets

n. Force 4 Specifications ● ● ● One x 16 PCI Express Slot Three x 1 PCI Express Slots 4 Serial ATA Hard Drives RAID Across SATA & IDE Active. Armor Firewall 10 USB 2. 0 Ports

n. Force 4 Ultra Added Specifications ● ● ● n. Tune for Overclocking 3. 0 Gb/s SATA Transfers 20 PCI Express Lanes

n. Tune ● On the fly – ● Monitoring – – ● ● Clock Speed Changing Temperatures Voltages Automated Troubleshooting One Place

n. Tune

n. Force 4 SLI Added Specifications ● ● Scalable Link Interface 2 PCI Express Video Cards Working Together – – ● Distributed Load Balancing Automatic Split Future Expansion

SLI Diagram

SLI Demonstration

n. Force Ultra Modification to SLI

Native Command Queuing

Other 939 Competitors ● ● ● Uli Si. S ATI Radeon XPRESS VIA K 8 T 800 n. Force 3

Comparison of 939 Motherboards

Reccomendation ● n. Force 4 SLI chipset – Advantages ● ● – More Features From Anandtech: On Average 3% faster than ATI Radeon XPRESS Future Upgrades More Control Disadvantages ● Cost

Sources ● ● ● Anandtech - www. anandtech. com n. Vidia - www. nvidia. com The. Tech. Report - www. thetechreport. com Tom's Hardware Guide - www. tomshardware. com ATI - http: //www. ati. com/ Price. Watch - www. pricewatch. com