New and Improved: NVIDIA nForce3 250 Gb Chipset

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Manufacturer	NVIDIA Corp.	NVIDIA Corp.	SiS	VIA Technologies
Northbridge	nForce3 1501309 Ball BGA0.15 µm	nForce3 250 Gb1309 Ball BGA0.15 µm	SiS 755698 Ball BGA0.22 µm	K8T800578 Ball BGA0.22 µm
Southbridge	Integrated	Integrated	SiS 964	VT8237539 Ball BGA
Interconnect	StreamThru	StreamThru	MuTIOL 1 GB/swith HyperStreaming	8X V-Link 533 MB/s
AGP	3.0 / AGP 8x	3.0 / AGP 8x	3.0 / AGP 8x	3.0 / AGP 8x
Fixer AGP/ PCI clock for overclocking	yes	yes	yes	no
System Speed / Hyper Transport	8 Bit, 600 MHz Up ; 16 Bit, 800 MHz Down	16 Bit, 800 MHz Up & Down	16 Bit, 800 MHz Up & Down	16 Bit, 800 MHz Up & Down
Memory Type	DDR SDRAM	DDR SDRAM	DDR SDRAM	DDR SDRAM
Memory Speed	DDR266/333/400	DDR266/333/400	DDR266/333/400	DDR266/333/400
Max. Memory	4096 MB	4096 MB	4096 MB	4096 MB
PCI Slots	6x 32 Bit PCI 2.3	6x 32 Bit PCI 2.3	6x 32 Bit PCI 2.3	6x 32 Bit PCI 2.3PCI-X using VIA VPX2
IDE Interface	2 Ports U-ATA/133	2 Ports U-ATA/133	2 Ports U-ATA/133	2 Ports U-ATA/133
Serial ATA	-	4 Ports	2 Ports	DriveStation Controller, 2 Ports SATA-150 &SATAlite Interface for 2 additional SATA ports
RAID	-	RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1	RAID 0, RAID 1	RAID 0, RAID 1 (SATA only)
USB Ports	-	6x USB 2.0/1.1480 MBit/s	8x USB 2.0/1.1480 MBit/s	8x USB 2.0/1.1480 MBit/s
Audio	AC97 2.1	AC97 2.1	AC97 2.1	AC97 2.1 or PCIVIA Vinyl Audio
Network	10/100 NVIDIA MAC	10/100/1000 NVIDIA MAC with Firewall	10/100 MAC Interface	VIA Gigabit Ethernet Interface or 10/100 MAC
Drivers	nForce Unified Driver & ForceWare Suite	nForce Unified Driver & ForceWare Suite	Dedicated AGP & IDE drivers	Unified Hyperion 4in1 Drivers

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Processor
Socket 754	Athlon 64 3200+ (2000 MHz, 1 MB L2 Cache)
Memory
AMD Athlon 64	2x Corsair TwinX CMX512-3500C2 (XMS3502 V1.1)512 MB per DIMMCL 2.0 - tRCD 2/3 - tRP 2 - tRAS 5
Motherboards
NVIDIA nForce3 150	Gigabyte KA-8NNXP Rev. 1.0BIOS : F12 (2010 MHz)
NVIDIA nForcee 250 Gb	MSI K8N Neo MS-7030, Rev. 1.0BIOS : 1.13 (2009 MHz)
SiS 755	SiS 755 Reference BoardBIOS : n/a (2010 MHz)
VIA K8T800	MSI K8T Neo MS-6702, Rev. 1.0BIOS : 1.4 (2001 MHz)
System Hardware
Graphics Card	Asus A9800XT/DVD, Rev. 1.01GPU : ATI Radeon 9800XT, 412 MHz Chip ClockMemory : 128 MB DDR-SDRAM, 365 MHz Chip Clock
Sound Card	Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space
Hard Drive	Western Digital WD800JB, 80 GB80 GB Per Platter, 7200 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Network Controllers	3COM 3C996B-T PCI-X Controller on Dual Xeon 2.8 GHzfor network testing
Software
Chipset Software	SiS AGP Driver 1.17, IDE Driver 2.03NVIDIA Platform Driver 4.09VIA Hyperion 4in1 Ver. 4.51
Graphics Driver	ATI Catalyst 4.1 (7.97 / 6.14.10.6414)
Network Drivers	Broadcom BCM5705 Driver Build 7.35a
DirectX Version	9.0b
OS	Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600, Service Pack 1

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