Ditto. I've been holding out for the nForce4 for a long time. The K8T800/K8T800 Pro/nForce3 ULTRA/nForce3 250GB business is shady. If it's a good chipset, nobody I like is making it, or it's s754.
The guy who designed the NF7-S moved over to DFI, which may or may not mean they will have the next "killer board".
I'm waiting for the next gen NF7-S equiv. myself, and only after it's been through a few revisions.
And as far as I know, the NForce4 doesn't have Soundstorm. Isn't this the case?
It'd also be f*ing awesome if the NForce5 chipset has AGP support, as I would rather not replace my motherboard, CPU, memory, AND video card all in one bite. Though, I'm not holding my breath...
I don't know how soon we'll be seeing these nForce4 boards but I'm kind of worried about the lack of AGP slots on those pictures there. Things arent looking so hot for a person like myself who not to long ago upgraded to a 6800GT of the AGP variety.
Hmm, a nice looking board, ABIT does always seem to do a little overkill on their first generation boards, and its SATA only. BTW, I saw a Western Digital SATA 10000RPM 74GB Raptor at the BX for sale.
Thats odd, only once chip between the PCI, AGP, memory and CPU. Does that have anything to do with the fact that the AMD 64bit CPU's have the memory controller integrated into them?
Is it just me or is the placement of the nforce chip on that abit pretty bad? I think aftermarket chipset coolers are pretty much out of the question on that board unless you have a really short graphics card
Hmm, a nice looking board, ABIT does always seem to do a little overkill on their first generation boards, and its SATA only.
I doubt that it's SATA only. There's about a inch of real estate missing from the bottom of the board. The SATA ports are half obscured in the photo, you cant see any Front panel connectors, Front mounted 3 pin fan connectors, and in it's latest mobos, Abit has the IDE ports mounted on the front of the boards facing forward/sideways.
And most important the POWER connector is Missing!
Is it just me or is the placement of the nforce chip on that abit pretty bad? I think aftermarket chipset coolers are pretty much out of the question on that board unless you have a really short graphics card
It's not just you... I took a look and thought "theres no way thats the final board layout."
After a little eye-balling it looks to me like even an orb style cooler couldn't squeeze into the little gap that been left there. I could be wrong but I think this board will be subject to a layout revision.
Is it just me or is the placement of the nforce chip on that abit pretty bad? I think aftermarket chipset coolers are pretty much out of the question on that board unless you have a really short graphics card
Is it just me or is the placement of the nforce chip on that abit pretty bad? I think aftermarket chipset coolers are pretty much out of the question on that board unless you have a really short graphics card
You dont need extra cooling for the chipset. The NF3-250 or K8T800 Pro series can do 300mhz HTT & >275mhz Mem without aftermarket coolers.
No Soundstorm on NF4 unfortunatly. Bad old AC-97. Rumour says though that Nvidia is releasing a soundcard based on Soundstorm 2 to sell separately, but it's just a rumour though. And no manufacturer so far that offer AGP on their NF4. Time to sell our new x800/6800 series me thinks.
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I'm waiting for the next gen NF7-S equiv. myself, and only after it's been through a few revisions.
And as far as I know, the NForce4 doesn't have Soundstorm. Isn't this the case?
It'd also be f*ing awesome if the NForce5 chipset has AGP support, as I would rather not replace my motherboard, CPU, memory, AND video card all in one bite. Though, I'm not holding my breath...
Hmm, a nice looking board, ABIT does always seem to do a little overkill on their first generation boards, and its SATA only. BTW, I saw a Western Digital SATA 10000RPM 74GB Raptor at the BX for sale.
Thats odd, only once chip between the PCI, AGP, memory and CPU. Does that have anything to do with the fact that the AMD 64bit CPU's have the memory controller integrated into them?
I doubt that it's SATA only. There's about a inch of real estate missing from the bottom of the board. The SATA ports are half obscured in the photo, you cant see any Front panel connectors, Front mounted 3 pin fan connectors, and in it's latest mobos, Abit has the IDE ports mounted on the front of the boards facing forward/sideways.
And most important the POWER connector is Missing!
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It's not just you... I took a look and thought "theres no way thats the final board layout."
After a little eye-balling it looks to me like even an orb style cooler couldn't squeeze into the little gap that been left there. I could be wrong but I think this board will be subject to a layout revision.
the epox board has the same thing, thats wierd
You dont need extra cooling for the chipset. The NF3-250 or K8T800 Pro series can do 300mhz HTT & >275mhz Mem without aftermarket coolers.
Here are some new pictures. Notice the DFI LanParty SLI-D dual 16x PCIe...
Also check out that Molex connector by the 1st PCIe 1x slot....
Middle nForce4: 100-150
nForce4 ULTRA: 150+