The date of announcement nForce4 SLI chipset for the Intel took quite a lot of time and motherboards based on it firmly took place in the high-end market sector. NVIDIA Later, the company issued a more powerful version - nForce4 SLI H16, which is the absolute record for the possibility of expansion. True, Boards of both chipsets have a very high retail price, and only a few computer enthusiasts can imagine their permit.

But NVIDIA recently introduced a new product in a series nForce4 SLI, which was designated XE. Its main feature - price that allows motherboard manufacturers to produce products more expensive than $ 100. Naturally, the first company responded Elitegroup, which submitted the charge C19-A SLI, which is already being sold in stores at a cost of $ 95-105.

Now briefly acquainted with this chipset. As we know, all Intel chipsets-family consists of two bridges: the north and south. In the northern realized memory controller, and support for PCI Express. And all the possibilities of increasing the bridge concentrated in the south.

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So, Northbridge compared to nForce4 SLI special not undergone changes. He still supports 20 lines for PCI Express, and memory controller can work with the type of memory DDR2-667. And, in the southern bridge chip supports nForce 430 (410), which is familiar to us GeForce 6150/6100 chipsets. Thus, NVIDIA harmonize the southern line bridges.