accoring to rumors nVidia nForce4 Ultra designed for Amd Athlon 64 FX -55 is going to be lauinched next year in feb or march and Intel not behind will launch its 64-bit processor with x86-64 extension ie Intel Pentium 4 64-bit EE 3.6 Ghz next year in feb or march. Is the clash going to be interesting and how it will agffect us.??? 8)
let's seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
nVidia nForce 4 is two chip solution with support PCI-E and DDR2 and it will also feature Sound Storm 2 which was their in nForce and was liked by all audio enthusiast as it had the capability to convert and audio signal into digital AC-3. Sound Storm 2 will certainly beat Intel HD Audio. As The HyperTransport Link in AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 would be 3000MT/s(ie 2GHz). Here one thing should be clearly noted HyperTransport Bus is completely different from Front Side Bus Speed. nForce 4 will support 2Ghz HyperTransport and processor will feature 128-bit DDR2 memory controller in-built. With 2MB L2 Cache AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 will certainly start performing really nicely.nForce 4 will also have support for 8 SATA channels and support for 2 Graphics Card and a improved hardware firewall which has been promoted desperately by nVidia.
Lets See what's there for Intel 925X-64
Its basically renovation of Intel 925X chipset and has some added features like 2 onboard SATA controller suppoting 8 SATA devices.
Apart from this support for IDE devices would just be for name with only a single channel. With support for 64bit processing, it can have Intel pentium 4 64-bit Extreme Edition 3.6GHz. Moreover Prescott processors with 64-bit functionality is gonna have 2MB L2 cache and Extereme Edition are Gonna have 1MB L2 Cache and 3MB L3 Cache and support for 1066Mhz from 800MHz FSB which was a bottleneck in utilising PCI-E and DDR2 to its fullest.
let's seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
nVidia nForce 4 is two chip solution with support PCI-E and DDR2 and it will also feature Sound Storm 2 which was their in nForce and was liked by all audio enthusiast as it had the capability to convert and audio signal into digital AC-3. Sound Storm 2 will certainly beat Intel HD Audio. As The HyperTransport Link in AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 would be 3000MT/s(ie 2GHz). Here one thing should be clearly noted HyperTransport Bus is completely different from Front Side Bus Speed. nForce 4 will support 2Ghz HyperTransport and processor will feature 128-bit DDR2 memory controller in-built. With 2MB L2 Cache AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 will certainly start performing really nicely.nForce 4 will also have support for 8 SATA channels and support for 2 Graphics Card and a improved hardware firewall which has been promoted desperately by nVidia.
Lets See what's there for Intel 925X-64
Its basically renovation of Intel 925X chipset and has some added features like 2 onboard SATA controller suppoting 8 SATA devices.
Apart from this support for IDE devices would just be for name with only a single channel. With support for 64bit processing, it can have Intel pentium 4 64-bit Extreme Edition 3.6GHz. Moreover Prescott processors with 64-bit functionality is gonna have 2MB L2 cache and Extereme Edition are Gonna have 1MB L2 Cache and 3MB L3 Cache and support for 1066Mhz from 800MHz FSB which was a bottleneck in utilising PCI-E and DDR2 to its fullest.
hehee
). So if u wanna make sure that u don't wanna go in for a full (meaning procy+mobo+gpu) upgrade 2 years down the line, u better wait for nForce4 (it will be out late Q4 2004 or Q1 2005 methinx) By that time ATI wld have surely come out with their X700's , and some better cards would probably have been released as well. HL2 wld also have been released so u wld know what's crap and what's not.