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- The correct title of this article is nForce 500. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
The nForce 500 computer chipset series, successor to the nForce4, was revealed by NVIDIA on March 7, 2006. nForce 500 supports AMD's Socket AM2; both technologies were released on May 23, 2006.
[edit] Specifications
- Support for NVIDIA SLI technology, including Quad SLI (enabling the simultaneous use of four GPUs) and SLI LinkBoost developments.
- Support for up to six SATA 3Gb/s hard disks and ten USB 2.0 devices.
- Support for dual RAID 5.
[edit] Chipsets
[edit] nForce 590 SLI MCP
- Enthusiast dual GPU segment, with full feature set and Quad SLI support.
- Uses the MCP55XE Northbridge and C51XE Southbridge. The two chipsets provide a total of 48 PCI Express lanes.
[edit] nForce 570 SLI MCP
- Performance dual GPU segment, lacking SLI LinkBoost technology.
- Total of 28 PCI Express lanes.
[edit] nForce 570 (Ultra) MCP
- Performance single GPU segment, lacking SLI support.
- Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.
[edit] nForce 550 MCP
- Mainstream single GPU segment, lacking SLI and RAID 5 support, and featuring only one Ethernet and four SATA ports.
- Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.
[edit] Intel Edition
NVIDIA is also preparing enthusiast segment nForce 590 SLI and performance segment nForce 570 SLI motherboards for Intel's Core 2 Duo processors, which were released on July 27, 2006. These motherboards will compete against the Intel 975X Express chipset, but information about performance has been withheld due to non-disclosure agreement restrictions. Some nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition and nForce 4 Ultra motherboards will also be updated to support Core 2 Duo.
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