Nvidia nForce 500
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
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.
model | PCI-Express lanes / links |
PATA / SATA (devices & speed) |
Supported RAID Modes |
USB connections | Ethernet | Audio | particularities |
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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
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
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 |