NForce 700
The Nforce 700 series is a family of PC chipsets the company Nvidia for AMD processors with HyperTransport interface (AMD K8, AMD K9 and K10 AMD ) and Intel processors with NetBurst or Intel Core microarchitecture. She is competing with the AMD 700 series, AMD 800 series, Intel 3 Series and Intel 4 series.
Model Overview
AMD K8/K9/K10-Serie
Suitable for all processors in the AMD K8, AMD K9 and AMD K10 series. In many chipsets 700a series an IGP has been integrated in order to provide the features of hybrid SLI in all price ranges and equipment can. For all Nforce 700a chipset Southbridge is integrated into the Northbridge and not available as a separate chip.
Northbridges
Southbridge
Intel AGTL bus protocol
Suitable for all Intel processors, which use the bus protocol AGTL . In all models, PCI - Express 2.0 will be used. In models based on C72 but this is only by an additional nForce 200 bridge chip realized that offers 32 PCIe lanes of the second generation, which replace the 16 lanes of the first generation in the Northbridge (SPP ). When nForce 790i this chip was integrated into the Northbridge, so that they natively provides 32 lanes of second generation. This nForce 200 chip was installed to provide more than two PCIe 16x slots can since on some high-end boards later Intel platforms (Socket 1366, 1156 and 1155 ). In addition, the memory controller is in the models nForce 790i Ultra SLI nForce 790i SLI and revised, which can now handle DDR3 memory, and the maximum clock frequency of the front side bus at 400 MHz (FSB 1600) increased. When nForce 790i Ultra SLI (not 790i SLI) to overclock to DDR3 -2000 ( PC3- 16000U ) is also possible. The other two models are still on DDR2 memory and 333 MHz (FSB 1333) limited. In contrast to the previous generation 45nm CPUs also now be officially supported, which was quite manufacturer and board depending before. Since the South bridges were compared to the previous generation does not change, they offer the same facilities, which is no longer Contemporary nForce 750 SLI especially when.