NVIDIA nForce 500 Preview Review

Name: NVIDIA nForce 500 Preview
Brand: NVIDIA

on May 22nd, 2006,

Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Overall nForce 5 Comparison

Now that we have taken a look at all the capabilites of the nForce 500 family, let's sum it up in one big table.

	NVIDIA nForce 550	NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra	NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI	NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI
Segment	Mainstream	Performance non-SLI	Performance SLI (2x8)	Enthusiast (2x16)
Socket	AMD Socket AM2	AMD Socket AM2	AMD Socket AM2	AMD Socket AM2
CPU	Athlon 64 Sempron	Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64	Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64	Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64
NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology	No	No	Yes 1 x16, 2 x 8	Yes 2 x 16
NVIDIA LinkBoost™ technology	No	No	No	Yes
Max Overclocking	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA DualNet® technology	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Native Gigabit Ethernet Connections	1	2	2	2
Teaming	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
TCP/IP Acceleration	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVIDIA MediaShield™ Storage Technology	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SATA/PATA Drives	4/2	6/2	6/2	6/2
SATA Speed	3Gb/s	3Gb/s	3Gb/s	3Gb/s
RAID	0,1,0+1	0,1,0+1,5	0,1,0+1,5	0,1,0+1,5
PCI Express # Lanes	20 lanes	20 lanes	28 lanes	46 lanes
PCIe Configuration	16, 1, 1, 1,1	16, 1, 1, 1,1	16, 8, 1, 1, 1,1	16, 16, 8, 1, 1, 1,1, 1, 1
USB ports	10	10	10	10
PCI Slots	5	5	5	5
Audio	HDA (Azalia)	HDA (Azalia)	HDA (Azalia)	HDA (Azalia)

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