NForce2
The nForce2 (codenamed Crush 18) is a family of PC chipsets for AMD's K7 the company Nvidia processors and a development of the nForce. It was introduced in July 2002.
Development
It provides 8x especially a revised memory interface for PC3200 memory, support for FSB333 (166 MHz EV6 ) and AGP. As an integrated graphics solution, a GeForce4 MX graphics core is now used. Also, the nForce2 is still divided into North (IGP or SPP) and Southbridge ( MCP).
Northbridges
There are the following variants of the North Bridge:
- NForce2 IGP
- NForce2 SPP
- NForce2 400
- NForce2 Ultra 400
The nForce2 IGP (codenamed Crush 18G ) corresponds to the nForce2 SPP (codenamed Crush 18D ), but, in contrast to this an integrated graphics core. A little later ( early 2003) the two variants nForce2 Ultra 400 and nForce2 400 came on the market. These complement the nForce2 SPP to include support for FSB400 (200 MHz EV6 ). The latter option will forfeit to the dual - channel memory interface and has only single channel.
South Bridges
There are several southbridges available. Initially, there were only MCP and MCP -T, from 2004 came three more this: MCP -S, MCP- RAID and MCP- Gb. All southbridges have a UDMA 133 controller with two channels, integrated 10/100 Mbit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 ports and an AC97 audio interface. The MCP- T features in addition to an audio processor (APU ), called Sound Storm, an additional 10/100 Ethernet port and one FireWire controller. The MCP -S is equipped like the MCP, so waived Sound Storm, but has eight instead of six USB 2.0 ports and an integrated SATA controller. The MCP- RAID complements the MCP -S to RAID functions, the MCP- Gb also has a GBit Ethernet controller.