The nVIDIA nForce Motherboard Chipset:
a different perspective
Last updated: 6/28/01

MCP FEATURES

Audio Processing Unit (APU)

• Dolby Digital Interactive Content Encoder
• Hardware DirectX 8.0 Audio Processor
• 256 Total Voices
• 64 3D Voices
• Downloadable Sample Version 2 Acceleration (DLS2)
• 32 Bin Mixer (8 voice volumes mapped to each bin)

 StreamThru

• IEEE 802.3 MAC (Media Access Controller)

• Supports 10/100 BaseT Ethernet/Fast Ethernet
• Supports HomePNA 2.0 PHYs
• Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect Compliant with IEEE 802.3 and 802.3u (MII)
• ACR Interface Support
• CNR Interface Support

• Isochronous Controller Paired with HyperTransport Results in Fastest Networking Performance

 Complete Communications Suite

• Dual USB Controlle

• Supports 6 USB Ports
• Configurable as 3/3 or 2/4
• Supports Full Speed (12Mb/sec.) and Low Speed (1.5Mb/sec.) per Port

• ACR Interface Support
• CNR Interface Support
• Allows USB Concurrency
• Supports 10/100Base-T Ethernet/Fast Ethernet
• Supports HomePNA 2.0 PHYs

 HyperTransport™ Technology

• High-speed (800MB/sec.)
• Low Voltage, Differential, and Low Pin Count Interface
• Communication Link Between IGP, MCP, and CPU

 Dual ATA-100 Disk Drive Controllers

• Supports Ultra DMA Mode 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (Ultra DMA-100/66/33)
• Industry Standard PCI Bus Master IDE Register Set Separate Independent IDE
• Connections for Primary and Secondary Interface (5V Tolerant)

 AC’97 2.1 Compliant Interface

• Supports 2, 4, or 6-channel Audio
• Dual AC-Link – Supports Up to Two CODECs
• 16-bit Stereo Output and Input Streams
• Supports Input, Output, and GPIO Channels for Host-Based Modems
• Separate Independent Functions for Audio and Modem
• Six Independent DMA Controllers
• ACR Interface Support
• CNR Interface Support
• S/PDIF Output (Stereo or AC-3 Output)

 Internal Fast PCI to PCI Bridge (Version 2.2 Compliant)

• Supports Up to 5 External PCI Slots at 33MHz
• PCI Master and Slave Interfaces
• Bi-directional Write Posting Support for Concurrency

 Internal Fast PCI-to-LPC Bridge

• Subtractive Decode
• Can Be Connected to External Super I/O, Flash BIOS, and LPC-to-ISA Bridge
• Supports LPC DMA and Mastering
• Serial Interrupt Protocol Support

 Integrated Clock Synthesizer

• MCP, LDT, PCI, IDE, and USB Clocks

 Dual System Management Bus (SMBus)

• 2.0 Interface
• PEC and ARP Support
• SMBus Host and Slave Support
• SMBus Alert Support

 PERFORMANCE

• APU

• 256 Total Stereo Voices
• 64 3D Voices Plus 192 Stereo Voices

• HyperTransport Technology 800MB/sec.
• Dual ATA-100 Disk Drive Controllers
• PCI Support at 33MHz

 QUALITY

• NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• WHQL-Certified Windows 2000, Windows NT®, Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows ME
• Complete Linux Drivers
• Fully Compatible with Microsoft DirectX 8.0

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