nForce4-4X??

[cbolt67]

I was looking into buying a socket 754 board with pci ExpressX16 capability. Just for giggles and grins before making the jump to socket 939. I noticed that all the chipsets on these boards say "nForce4-4X" is this different from the normal nForce4??

 

[GOREGRINDER]

its not alls that means is its a standard nforce4 chipset with an additional pci-e 4x slot (along with the 16x and the 1x slots for pci-e peripheral's),.....s939's are the same chipset

the video pci-e slot is 16x not 4x if thats what you were worried about,... different slot altogether

 

[Myrandex]

No the 4x means limited to a 4x multiplier for the HTT bus instead of a 5x multi. On Socket 754 systems, 4x is standard, while on socket 939 it is 5x (thats why it is 1.6GB buss for socket 754 and 2GB bus for socket 939).
Jason

 

[grooge]

But.. that doesnt change anything on performance. Even 3X is plenty fast for normal operation..

 

[grooge]

And the speed is not 1600 or 2000MHz.. it is 800 or 1000 MHz. See, it is not because you can drive 65 MP/h on both direction of the hyghway that you can say that you are going to 135 MP/h.. The HTT speed is 200MHz to and from. This is stupid marketing trick to impress with big number. The bigger is the better, unless you know your stuff.

 

[Budman]

also i think it's only sata1 not sata2.

 

[Peter]

The 4x is the max HTT multiplier - which gives you 800 MHz as required for socket-754. The "normal" NF4 lets you do 5x, which is useless on this platform.

Originally posted by: grooge
And the speed is not 1600 or 2000MHz.. it is 800 or 1000 MHz. See, it is not because you can drive 65 MP/h on both direction of the hyghway that you can say that you are going to 135 MP/h..

But if you hit an oncoming car, the crash will be at a relative speed of 130

 

[Reapsy01]

Originally posted by: Peter
The 4x is the max HTT multiplier - which gives you 800 MHz as required for socket-754. The "normal" NF4 lets you do 5x, which is useless on this platform.

Originally posted by: grooge
And the speed is not 1600 or 2000MHz.. it is 800 or 1000 MHz. See, it is not because you can drive 65 MP/h on both direction of the hyghway that you can say that you are going to 135 MP/h..

But if you hit an oncoming car, the crash will be at a relative speed of 130

hehe

 

[grooge]

Originally posted by: Peter
The 4x is the max HTT multiplier - which gives you 800 MHz as required for socket-754. The "normal" NF4 lets you do 5x, which is useless on this platform.

Originally posted by: grooge
And the speed is not 1600 or 2000MHz.. it is 800 or 1000 MHz. See, it is not because you can drive 65 MP/h on both direction of the hyghway that you can say that you are going to 135 MP/h..

But if you hit an oncoming car, the crash will be at a relative speed of 130

I don't plan to hit incoming cars thou ...

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