nForce 4 S939 Motherboards

[Jeff]

Rumor has it the nForce 4 will be launched on Oct 19th. Does anyone know if
tons of motherboard manufacturers will announce/release boards the same day?
Anyone have any rumored model numbers/specs I could research?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[borolad]

nForce 4

nForce 4
nForce 4 Ultra
nForce 4 SLI

I posted a CK8-04 *.jpg of reference board for the group some four
months ago but there is still nothing definitive to be had on the
subject. It's still wait and see.

Generally real evidence appears on the Korean manufacturers sites long
before it appears into the west.

BoroLad

 

[Jeff]

So since nothing has shown up on the Korean sites and we've got a week to go
before launch,
that pretty much means we're talking a paper launch, huh? No product on
retail shelves before
well into Nov/Dec?

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

So since nothing has shown up on the Korean sites and we've got a week to go
before launch,
that pretty much means we're talking a paper launch, huh? No product on
retail shelves before
well into Nov/Dec?

Doesn't mean anything. The motherboard makers have NDAs in place with
Nvidia which prohibit them from discussing the nForce 4 until it's
offically announced. There probably will be a bunch of board announcements
at the official launch. It doesn't mean you'll be able to buy a board but
you might be able to if they've managed the availablity of the chip
correctly.

 

[borolad]

So since nothing has shown up on the Korean sites and we've got a week to go
before launch,
that pretty much means we're talking a paper launch, huh? No product on
retail shelves before
well into Nov/Dec?

I hope I'm wrong, most always it's the xmas market that gives any
release a megga instant return on real cash generation to any
manufacturer and I've seen very little - almost zero on these
non-english sites, and I would have expected them to be actually
shipping by the end of this month.

We will see . . . .

BoroLad

 

[rstlne]

I hope I'm wrong, most always it's the xmas market that gives any
release a megga instant return on real cash generation to any
manufacturer and I've seen very little - almost zero on these
non-english sites, and I would have expected them to be actually
shipping by the end of this month.

We will see . . . .

It's probably good to remember... What's the rush..
Sure you get a board that supports PciExpress.. BUT those cards are fairly
rare at the moment "if you do find them then they are not cheap".. That's
the Big change between the chipsets and It will end up being the main
selling factor.. I WANT to go to pci express and bypass buying another agp
card. I bet we do see them before xmas.. Still about 2 months for that and
we all know that this kinda stuff can just "show up" a week after they
annouce the release

 

[Tone-EQ]

Rumor has it the nForce 4 will be launched on Oct 19th. Does anyone know

if
tons of motherboard manufacturers will announce/release boards the same
day?
Anyone have any rumored model numbers/specs I could research?

You might want to take a look at this:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19026

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[Jeff]

Also, this Asus board today...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19087

 

[Jeff]

to

It's probably good to remember... What's the rush..
Sure you get a board that supports PciExpress.. BUT those cards are fairly
rare at the moment "if you do find them then they are not cheap".. That's
the Big change between the chipsets and It will end up being the main
selling factor.. I WANT to go to pci express and bypass buying another agp
card. I bet we do see them before xmas.. Still about 2 months for that and
we all know that this kinda stuff can just "show up" a week after they
annouce the release

Waiting is cool and all, but I'll bet you've got something slightly better
than a
Pentium III 1Ghz with a Geforce 4200ti. I've been ready to buy something
since NVIDIA announced the 6800GT for PCI Express in June. If it had
actually shown up on retail shelves, I would have gone with socket 775
months
ago, but I really wanted to go AMD this time and since it's going to be such
a big
step over what I've got, why not get a 64bit 939 and PCI Express and
actually
be able to upgrade it a year or two down the road?

I'm guessing if we do see 939 PCI Express boards this year from a major
(Asus,
MSI, Gigabyte) it will be very late November or December. And at this
point, I
guess I don't care if it says nForce 4 or VIA 890 on it. Whoever ships
first, I'm
good... and if has two x16 slots on it... even better.

 

[cheap bastard]

Waiting is cool and all, but I'll bet you've got something slightly better
than a
Pentium III 1Ghz with a Geforce 4200ti. I've been ready to buy something
since NVIDIA announced the 6800GT for PCI Express in June.

I hear ya, I picked up a 754/2800 around easter. Big improvement over
the old P2b for some things. Not much difference for others.

I've learned though that cpu's and motherboards are pretty cheap and
good cases are really cheap. No need to nurse the old BX along now
that we have a real engineering alternative to the misguided Intel P4
nonsense.

Now AMD has revealed just HOW BAD IT IS AT INTEL with the release of
their excellent .90 cpu's.

 

[rstlne]

I hear ya, I picked up a 754/2800 around easter. Big improvement over
the old P2b for some things. Not much difference for others.

I've learned though that cpu's and motherboards are pretty cheap and
good cases are really cheap. No need to nurse the old BX along now
that we have a real engineering alternative to the misguided Intel P4
nonsense.

Now AMD has revealed just HOW BAD IT IS AT INTEL with the release of
their excellent .90 cpu's.

Heh..
It doesnt take a Cheap Bastard to tell you how bad it is at intel now ..
They plan to be back on top in about 3 years tho, and knowing how these
processor markets work then it's highly likely..

Intel has turned a few of their views around too and most consmers who loved
intel now dont say much about it..
mhz = everything .. Out the window
Intel has also hit their top speed EVEN WITH their new chips.. Nothing over
4ghz .. a64 4000+ .. I guess when we see a p4 3800 w4 meg l2 cache compared
to it then we'll know what's better..
To me however my amd love is fading cause you look at their FX series chips
and wow they are high priced..

 

[cheap bastard]

Heh..
It doesnt take a Cheap Bastard to tell you how bad it is at intel now ..
They plan to be back on top in about 3 years tho, and knowing how these
processor markets work then it's highly likely..

Intel has turned a few of their views around too and most consmers who loved
intel now dont say much about it..
mhz = everything .. Out the window
Intel has also hit their top speed EVEN WITH their new chips.. Nothing over
4ghz .. a64 4000+ .. I guess when we see a p4 3800 w4 meg l2 cache compared
to it then we'll know what's better..
To me however my amd love is fading cause you look at their FX series chips
and wow they are high priced..

Yeah, that's why some of us here have been pushing socket 754, it's
reasonably priced. But with the .90's out, I'd look at the 3000 and a
good overclocking nforce3 motherboard.