nForce4: PCI Express og Sound Storm 2

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Helt grei, men nokså dårlig i forhold til dagens 10k og oppover maskiner.

[snorreh]

NforcersHQ har fått NVIDIA til å kommentere denne saken her:

http://www.nforcershq.com/modules.php?name...rticle&sid=1695

* Update

 

Our NVIDIA contact was asked for confirmation of the details in the INQ's article, here's the reply:

 

"There may be some truth in there, but none of it has anything to do with audio."

 

So, sadly, no SoundStorm2 on the horizon for nForce4...

[Spragleknas]

Møkk.....

[snorreh]

The Inquirer røper nå flere detaljer om nForce4:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17058

The chipset will be Socket 754/939 and 940 capable and will have multiprocessing capabilities. You will be able to use it as a single CPU platform. And you will also be able to use it as a two way, four way and up to a maximum of eight way as a multiprocessing platform.

 

This chipset will support a maximum of 32 PCI-E lanes says Theo, has suggested 1x16 X PCI-E slot, one 1 x 8X for SLI card and four times one lane for peripheral devices. This definitely confirms our previous claim that Nforce 4 will be a platform which will let you plug two Geforce 6 series PCI-E cards into a machine and end up with a much cheaper MP machine than those based on Intel's "Tumwater" chipset.

 

The chipset will support five PCI slots, two times Nvidia Gbit Ethernet and Nvidia RAID, similar in function to Intel's "Matrix Array", says Theo.

 

The Nforce 4, CK8-04 will support eight S-ATA drives and six P-ATA drives and for additional connectivity you will have no less then 10 USB 2.0 ports.

 

As for sound freaks, this chipset will feature SP-10, Soundstorm 2 audio that will be Dolby Digital 5.1 compliant and it will be able to do EX effects at 20 GFlops processing power. Soundstorm 2 supports 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 speaker configurations.

[Åsmund@ATi]

vil Nforce3 komme med pci-e....?

[Goodall]

gleder meg til hw.no tester nforce4 med dette siden dette skulle jo bli mulig dette nå

Endret 10. juli 2004 av Goodall

[Thombr86]

The Inquirer røper nå flere detaljer om nForce4:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17058

The chipset will be Socket 754/939 and 940 capable and will have multiprocessing capabilities. You will be able to use it as a single CPU platform. And you will also be able to use it as a two way, four way and up to a maximum of eight way as a multiprocessing platform.

 

This chipset will support a maximum of 32 PCI-E lanes says Theo, has suggested 1x16 X PCI-E slot, one 1 x 8X for SLI card and four times one lane for peripheral devices. This definitely confirms our previous claim that Nforce 4 will be a platform which will let you plug two Geforce 6 series PCI-E cards into a machine and end up with a much cheaper MP machine than those based on Intel's "Tumwater" chipset.

 

The chipset will support five PCI slots, two times Nvidia Gbit Ethernet and Nvidia RAID, similar in function to Intel's "Matrix Array", says Theo.

 

The Nforce 4, CK8-04 will support eight S-ATA drives and six P-ATA drives and for additional connectivity you will have no less then 10 USB 2.0 ports.

 

As for sound freaks, this chipset will feature SP-10, Soundstorm 2 audio that will be Dolby Digital 5.1 compliant and it will be able to do EX effects at 20 GFlops processing power. Soundstorm 2 supports 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 speaker configurations.

 

Dette er verdt å vente på ser jeg, noen som vet ca. lanseringsdato?

 

Lurer på en ting til: hvis det er et 2-veis-system, kan man da bruke kun 1 cpu og evt 1 eliminator(hvis det er det det heter), som på slot 1?

[Manuel]

Alle burde vite at Soundstorm er Audigy (og alt annet Creative tilbyr) overlegen på DIGITAL lyd. Faktisk så er soundstorm den eneste APU'en som klarer å enkode Dolby Digital i sanntid. Det betyr at man kan nøye seg med å trekke 1 kabel hvis man har et 5.1-anlegg, mens med Audigy må man trekke 3 kabler (3*stereo PCM) til anlegget.

 

Creative unnskylder seg med at enkoding til DD i sanntid innebærer en så høy latency.... Kanskje det er derfor soundstorm brukes i XBOX? Jeg har ikke merket noe til den påståtte latencyen så Creative må komme med en mer overbevisende løgn før jeg skifter mening. Men at soundstorm mangler støtte for Advanced HD-støtte er litt mer problematisk...

 

NVIDIA lager også bedre drivere enn Creative, for som jeg husker Audigy-driverne fylte de opp maskinen med alskens dritt: Jeg liker dårlig at Creative skal velge inn masse fancy "features" uten noe innspill til brukeren (irriterende splash-screen anyone?)

[b0nna]

Lurer på en ting til: hvis det er et 2-veis-system, kan man da bruke kun 1 cpu og evt 1 eliminator(hvis det er det det heter), som på slot 1?

Trenger ingen 'eliminator' 'terminator' etc på dagens K8 systemer ihvertfall.

Går fint å kjøre med kun èn cpu i 2-veis systemer.