We have talked many times about Intel and their lack of competition in the chipset side of the business. Now it seems they are seeing the light and learning.  This nForce4 Intel chipset is different to the AMD nForce4 version in that the memory controller is not included as Intel have included in their architecture which has caused Nvidia to move to two chips and have been able to add some more enhancements to this nForce4.

Also with two independent SATA controllers for four SATA ports complying to SATA II specifications and with full support for native command queuing (NCQ) and 3 GBit's operation and various RAID setups.

With processors both AMD & Intel having L1 cache memory all-be-it smaller than in earlier years it is very fast while the L2 is bigger but slower. These are for data that is repeatedly used over a short time interval or data that is close to data recently used. Processors with their in-chip prefetch units predict the memory page needed. Nvidia with their Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Processor (DASP) works on top of the processor prefetch to track each core and thread to prefetch data using their sophisticated algorithms for quicker processing so the story goes.

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