Nvidia nForce 500

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nForce 500 is a family of PC chipsets from Nvidia for AMD's K8 and AMD K9 processors as well as Intel's Pentium 4 / D , Celeron / D and Core 2 processors .

AMD K8 / K9 series

Suitable for all processors of the AMD-K8 and AMD-K9 series .

development

With the introduction of the AM2 socket , Nvidia also launched revised versions of the nForce4 as the nForce 500 . These chipsets are based strongly on the nForce4 and in the case of the nForce 500, 500 Ultra and 500 SLI or 560 SLI have only been renamed or changed only marginally and are sometimes only recognized as nForce4 by the driver .

Models

nForce 550

There are the following variants:

  • nForce 500
  • nForce 500 Ultra
  • nForce 500/560 SLI
  • nForce 520
  • nForce 550
  • nForce 560
  • nForce 570 Ultra
  • nForce 570 SLI
  • nForce 590 SLI

The first representatives nForce 500 , nForce 500 Ultra and nForce 500 SLI or nForce 560 SLI correspond 1: 1 to the nForce4 versions nForce4, nForce4 Ultra and nForce4 SLI and offer identical features.

The actually new nForce 500 series was introduced with the nForce 550 , nForce 570 Ultra , nForce 570 SLI and nForce 590 SLI based on the MCP55 and, compared to its predecessors, offers a high definition audio interface , but dispenses with a channel of the Ultra DMA / 133 controllers . Except for the nForce 550, the chips have been expanded by two more SATA ports to a total of six ports (and thus also RAID5 ) and to two Gigabit Ethernet . The nForce 570 SLI allows the use of SLI again and offers 28 PCIe lanes so that a graphics card can still be addressed with 16 PCIe lanes. The nForce 590 SLI then increases the number of PCIe lanes to 46 using the C51 additional chip known from the nForce 4 SLI X16, so that both graphics cards can be addressed with 16 PCIe lanes.

The second generation of the nForce 500 series is then the nForce 520 (LE) , nForce 560 and nForce 570 LT SLI based on the MCP65 and MCP61, slimmed-down versions of the nForce 550, which is closely related to the MCP68 known as the nForce 630a. A big innovation in the MCP65 and MCP68 was the support of the AHCI standard. The most slimmed-down versions of this chip, nForce 520 and nForce 520 LE, only offer 10/100 MBit Ethernet, only one Ultra-DMA / 133 controller with one channel and, in the case of the nForce520 LE based on MCP61, only two SATA ports without AHCI and only eight USB 2.0 ports.

Furnishing

All chipsets support HT 2.0 with 1 GHz and offer up to 5 PCI slots.

Standard equipment NVIDIA nForce 500 Northbridge function
model PCI-Express
lanes / links 		PATA / SATA
(devices & speed) 		Supported
RAID Modes 		USB connections Ethernet Audio particularities
nForce 500 20/4 4 × ATA-133/4 × SATA 0, 1, 0 + 1 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 1 Gbit / s AC97 -
nForce 500 Ultra 20/4 4 × ATA-133/4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 1 Gbit / s AC97 -
nForce 500/560 SLI 20/5 4 × ATA-133/4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 1 Gbit / s AC97 2 × 8 SLI, TCP / IP acceleration
nForce 520 LE 20/3 2 × ATA-133/2 × SATA-II 0, 1 8 × USB 2.0 1 × 100 Mbit / s HDA -
nForce 520 20/4 2 × ATA-133/4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 100 Mbit / s HDA -
nForce 550 20/5 2 × ATA-133/4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 1 Gbit / s HDA -
nForce 560 19/4 2 × ATA-133/4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 1 Gbit / s HDA FirstPacket
nForce 570 LT SLI 19/4 2 × ATA-133/4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 1 × 1 Gbit / s HDA 2 × 8 SLI, FirstPacket
nForce 570 Ultra 20/5 2 × ATA-133/6 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 2 × 1 Gbit / s HDA FirstPacket, TCP / IP acceleration, DualNet, teaming
nForce 570 SLI 28/6 2 × ATA-133/6 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 2 × 1 Gbit / s HDA 2 × 8 SLI, SLI-Ready Memory (EPP), FirstPacket, TCP / IP acceleration, DualNet, teaming
nForce 590 SLI 46/9 2 × ATA-133/6 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 2 × 1 Gbit / s HDA 2 × 16 SLI, SLI-Ready Memory (EPP), LinkBoost, FirstPacket, TCP / IP acceleration, DualNet, teaming

Intel AGTL + bus protocol

Suitable for all Intel processors that use the AGTL + bus protocol .

development

Shortly after the presentation of the nForce 500 series for the AMD platform, Nvidia also launched a revised version of the nForce4 Intel Edition . The C19 Northbridge was still used and the MCP430 Southbridge remained with the nForce 570i, so that it corresponds 1: 1 to the nForce 4i Ultra or SLI XE. With the nForce 590i SLI, however, the outdated southbridge, actually an nForce4 for the AMD platform, was replaced by the new MCP55, which was used by AMD as the nForce 570 SLI. These two Southbridges should also be used with the nForce 680i or 650i as well as the 780i and 790i or 750i, which means that Nvidia never supported the AHCI standard on the Intel platform apart from the chipsets with integrated graphics.

More important, however, was that the motherboards were modified to support the new Core 2 Duo CPUs, which very few revised nForce4 did. Nevertheless, the old C19 Northbridge was only sufficient for the first generation of the Core 2 Duo with FSB1066, Core 2 Duo with higher FSB or Core 2 Quad only supported the new Northbridge of the nForce 600.

Models

There are the following variants:

  • nForce 570i SLI
  • nForce 590i SLI

Furnishing

Northbridge

Standard equipment Nvidia nForce 500i Northbridge function
model Front side bus Storage controller PCI-Express lanes PCI-Express links particularities
nForce 570i Ultra / SLI 266 MHz AGTL + Dual-channel DDR2-667 20th 5 SLI version with 2 × 8 SLI
nForce 590i SLI 266 MHz AGTL + Dual-channel DDR2-667 48 11 2 × 16 SLI

Southbridge

Standard equipment NVIDIA nForce 500i Southbridge function
model PATA
(devices & speed) 		SATA
(devices & speed) 		Supported
RAID Modes 		USB connections Number of
PCI slots 		Ethernet Audio Others
nForce 570i Ultra / SLI 4 x ATA-133 4 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 8 × USB 2.0 5 1 × 1000 Mbit / s HDA FirstPacket
nForce 590i SLI 2 x ATA-133 6 × SATA-II 0, 1, 0 + 1, 5 10 × USB 2.0 5 2 × 1000 Mbit / s HDA FirstPacket, TCP / IP acceleration, DualNet, teaming

See also