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| NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI | NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI | NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra | NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI | NVIDIA nForce 550 | NVIDIA nForce 520 | NVIDIA nForce 520 LE | NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI | NVIDIA nForce 500 Ultra | NVIDIA nForce 500 | |
| Segment | Enthusiast | Performance SLI | Performance non-SLI | Performance SLI | Mainstream | Mainstream | Value | Performance SLI | Performance non-SLI | Value |
| CPU | AMD Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 |
AMD Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 |
AMD Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 |
AMD Athlon 64 FX Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 Sempron |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 Sempron |
AMD Athlon 64 Sempron |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 Sempron |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 Sempron |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Athlon 64 Sempron |
| *NVIDIA LinkBoost™ technology | ![]() |
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| NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology | ![]() 2 x 16 |
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| PCI Express | ||||||||||
# Lanes |
46 lanes | 28 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes | 20 lanes |
# Links |
9 links | 6 links | 5 links | 4 links | 5 links | 4 links | 3 links | 5 links | 4 links | 4 links |
Configuration |
16, 16, 8, 1, 1, 1,1, 1, 1 | 16, 8, 1, 1, 1,1 | 16, 1, 1, 1,1 | 8, 8, 1, 1 | 16, 1, 1, 1,1 | 16, 1, 1, 1 | 16, 1, 1 | 8, 8, 1, 1, 1 | 16, 1, 1, 1 | 16, 1, 1, 1 |
| SATA/PATA drives | 6/2 | 6/2 | 6/2 | 4/4 | 4/2 | 4/2 | 2/2 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 |
| SATA speed | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s | 3Gb/s |
| RAID | 0,1,0+1,5 | 0,1,0+1,5 | 0,1,0+1,5 | 0,1,0+1,5 | 0,1,0+1 | 0,1,0+1 | 0,1 | 0,1,0+1,5 | 0,1,0+1,5 | 0,1,0+1 |
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| Native Ethernet Connection | 2 x 10/100/1000 |
2 x 10/100/1000 |
2 x 10/100/1000 |
1 x 10/100/1000 |
1 x 10/100/1000 |
1 x 10/100 |
1 x 10/100 |
1 x 10/100/1000 |
1 x 10/100/1000 |
1 x 10/100/1000 |
| NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology | ![]() |
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| NVIDIA DualNet® technology | ![]() |
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Teaming |
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TCP/IP Acceleration |
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| NVIDIA nTune™ Utility | ![]() |
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| USB ports | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| PCI Slots | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Audio | HDA | HDA | HDA | AC97 | HDA | HDA | HDA | AC97 | AC97 | AC97 |


