Nvidia made public details of its nForce 4 PCI Express chipset, as expected - doubly so since AMD welcomed the company's Athlon 64-oriented product earlier today.

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Double click on 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers'. Double click on 'NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller'. Note: There may be more then one entry. In this case just double click the first one. Click driver at the top. Click Rollback Driver. Click Yes to rollback the driver. Click Yes to restart the computer. Serial ATA (SATA, abbreviated from Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to. NForce 9 series: 980a SLI nForce 7 series: 790i Ultra SLI, 790i SLI, 780i SLI, 740i SLI, 730i (Geforce 9400/9300), 730a (GeForce 8300/8200), 720i, 720a (GeForce 8100) nForce 6 series: 630i/GeForce 7150, 630i/GeForce 7100, 610i/GeForce 7050 ION series: ION.

The leaks pretty much had it right. The nForce 4 family comprises three models: nForce 4, nForce 4 Ultra and nForce 4 SLI, the latter providing support for Nvidia' 'two GPUs, one image' multi-processing technology.

The nForce 4 provides one x16 PCI-E interconnect for graphics cards and three x1 slots for other boards. It can also handle up to four Serial ATA drives and four parallel ATA drives, with RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 running across all of them. On the communications side of the Media and Communications Processor (MCP), the chip provides a hardware firewall and Gigabit Ethernet. There's also support for TCP offloading, a system that's compatible with Microsoft's 'Longhorn' OS 'TCP Chimney' acrchitecture. The media component includes AC97 support, and not the anticipated hi-definition system.

The Ultra part adds support for Serial ATA 2.0, with its 3Gbps operation, again over four devices. There's support for ten USB 2.0 ports, too. The MCP features a beefed up security sub-system.

The nForce 4 SLI is an UItra part with support for a further ten PCI-E lanes. Both SLI and Ultra will also ship with nTune's Nvidia's performance control software - overclocking, to all intents and purposes. Nvidia dubbed the code an 'industry first', but this is the kind of thing companies like ABIT have been doing for some time. The utility offers a 'powerful... tuning engine that customises various system parameters to automatically adjust for the ultimate performance', Nvidia claimed, adding: it 'also offers customisable computing environments, ranging from extreme performance for 3D-intensive applications to quietened operation for DVD playback and other traditional PC applications'.

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All three chipsets are geared toward 939-pin AMD processors.

Nvidia said it expects mobos based on the nForce 4 family to ship within the next 30 days from all the usual suspects. ®

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