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NF4 Ultra or NF4 non-Ultra chipset?

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Shuffle   07-24-2005 at 09:35:14 AM

I considere to buy DFI Lanparty UT NF4-D or NF4 Ultra-D. what is the difference between chipset nforce4 and nforce4 ultra? From what i read from tomshardware's article, the difference is NF4 non-ultra chipset doesnt support athlon64fx, HT-link just at 800Mhz for NF4 non-ultra instead of 1000Mhz for NF4 ulta, and NF4 doest have SN engine. My question is what is HT link and SN engine? are they important feature?
i want to use it with athlon64 3000+. Will that be ok if i just use NF4 non ultra motherboard? Thanks a lot..

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Rugger   07-24-2005 at 03:53:04 PM
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<A HREF="http://nvidia.com/object/feature_activearmor.html" target="_new">SN engine</A> description.

Neither of these features are essential to using that CPU in a system. If you want the non-ultra board, then make sure it has all of the features that YOU need or want. If it does, then get it and be happy!

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pat   07-25-2005 at 03:57:09 AM
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You start to see difference in performance witnthe HT link at 400MHz.. so dont worry about having it a 800 instead of 1000, you wont see any difference..

I have the nforce4 chipset, non ultra and I dont feel I'm missing the ultra feature.

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TheRod   07-26-2005 at 04:22:49 PM
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All nForce4 based motherboards supports Athlon FX. CPU support is part of the BIOS programming.

nForce4 4x or NON-Ultra use the exact SAME silicon than Ultra or SLI version.

ActiveArmor works on all nForce4. I personnaly don't recommend to use it, since it's quite buggy.

So, choose the mobo with the features you really need (firewire, audio output, etc...). But, if you plan to overclock a lot, getting a good Ultra or SLI board might help since they are often built with top-notch components and are meant for the enthousiast audience. But some 4x/non-Ultra boards overclocks quite well. For example, a lot of GA-K8NF-9 users can run at 280-290MHz FSB and/or CPU at 2.6GHz and higher. Mine can run my 3200+ @ 3800+ without trouble with stock HSF.

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