Gigabyte’s AM2 Boards (NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI & 570 SLI)

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | Motherboards, News

Gigabyte nForce 570 SLI motherboardHardwarezone takes a sneak peak at the 2 motherboards for the new socket AM2 from AMD. These boards are not in production yet, but give a glance at what to expect.

The AM2 will be compatible with current AMD chipsets because of the hypertransport technology remaining the same. The 940 pin chips will not be compatible with the older 940 pin layout that was used before.

The AM2 chips will include integrated DDR2 controllers, allowing them to use DDR2, rather than the older DDR, which they were stuck with using for such a long time.

Despite the compatibility with older chipsets, Nvidia have released the new 500-series chipsets to compliment the release of these new chips.

Both of these fully-features boards make good platforms on which to build a new computer based on the new AMD chips. Check them out to see how they look.

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2 Comments to Gigabyte’s AM2 Boards (NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI & 570 SLI)

Bob Graham
December 5, 2006

Which NVIDA video cards have WDDM drivers in compliance with Vista requirements?

Thanks for your help,

Bob Graham

Peter
December 6, 2006

I found a listing of compatible cards at nvidia

http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html

There is a chance that some setups might not work because of the BETA status of Vista and the Nvidia Forceware drivers.

Latest Forceware drivers can be found through the links at http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_downloads.html

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