Added: the nForce 3 150 was not just the expected high fliers. CeBIT taking place in the near future various manufacturers – including ASUS, MSI and gigabyte – will show but likely to nForce 3 250 public first circuit boards with the brand new.

The single-chip solution with the version number of 250 to fix it so for the chip manufacturers. In addition to some improvements in the design of the chip you would like to score already integrated Gigabit Ethernet over the competition especially with the in the Silicon, which must link such network adapter still largely over the very slow PCI bus on the southbridge, even apart from Intel.

As is known from nForce 2, there will be 3 250 different variants with the nForce. So the nForce 3 250 with conventional 10 / 100 MBit Ethernet has to make do. In addition motherboards should with the nForce 3 250 up to eight USB 2.0 ports on Board have and also four S-ATA ports, of which two to four – depending on the variation of chip – nForce 3 provided by the. The integrated S-ATA RAID controller supports RAID 0, 1 also RAID 0 + 1, and JBOD. Competitors such as VIA and Intel offer such a function already longer in their chips, so nVidia especially here ground had to do well. In addition to the Gigabit controller, the GB version of the chip will have also have a built-in firewall that can be configured by the ForceWare software.

For the now very elderly nForce 2, is with the MCP2-S a similarly equipped Southbridge also (even longer) in planning and will soon be installed on the first circuit boards.