NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra introduced silently

[mascaras]

New Nforce 650i Ultra (Price: ~ 70€/80€)

NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra introduced silently





NVIDIA is now silently introducing the nForce 650i Ultra, and it should be available shortly. The motherboard will use the same chips as the nForce 650i SLI (C55+MCP51, while the 680i Series uses C55+MCP55) but will be substantially cheaper while the physical layout will only sport one x16 PCI-E slot, compared to the 650i SLI which had two and was capable of running in 2x8 SLI mode.

The nTune release notes for version 5.05.25.00 confirm the product's existence, and when we asked NVIDIA directly, they told us it will be available for roughly ~£50, so you should expect products to be available in the 70-80€ price range most likely. This is a fairly significant price cut compared to the 650i SLI, since that seems to retail for about 100 to 120€. A quick Froogle tells us that the cheapest 650i SLI available at UK E-tailers sells for £68, including VAT.

We don't know if the C55 chips are of the same bins as those used in the 650i SLI (since that would determine the motherboard's FSB overclocking potential), but we would tend to believe performance and overclocking will be roughly comparable.

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/163

regards

[LuckyNV]

wow that is cheap...

[Gam3Ra]

Board with that chipset for 80$ will be damn nice

[xlink]

Ultra-d Please...

[lowfat]

WOW, the SLI is dirt cheap already.

[Marioace]

http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce_600i_tech_specs.html

http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/35382/...ecard_0307.pdf

[metro.cl]

I had this for a while didnt know no one seemed to have posted it.




Comparative Specs with the nforce 600 family




Source: Chilehardware

[nn_step]

seems like a decent budget chipset

[Marioace]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=139308

thread created with some info (price) and the same Specs from NVIDIA

[falqon]

WOW, the SLI is dirt cheap already.

I'm pretty sure the point of the 650i ultra is no SLI.

Any clue on who might make one of these?

[erwinz]

nice mobo.. any bios shots??

[perkam]

Merged-Ness.

Perkam

[dinos22]

I had this for a while didnt know no one seemed to have posted it.

the placement of battery, IDE channels and power connectors is in great positions

[Marioace]

MSI P6N2 Ultra (NF650i Ultra)

Supports Socket 775 for Intel® Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, P4, P4EE, Pentium D, Pentium XE processors.
• Supports FSB 1333/1066/800/533MHz. (FSB 1333MHz supports on E6x50 processors only)
• Supports EIST technology.
• Supports Intel® Hyper-Threading technology.


Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce 650i Ultra (C55) Chipset

• NVIDIA® nForce 430i (MCP51) Chipset


Main Memory

• Supports dual channel DDR2 533/667/800, using four 240-pin/1.8V DDR2 DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size up to 8GB


Slots

• One PCI Express x16 slots (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant) (The second slot doesn't provide any function)
• Two PCI Express x1 slot (support PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Two 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface)


On-Board IDE

• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA® nForce430i chipset provides IDE
HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices.


On-Board SATA

• nForce 430i supports 4 SATA II ports (SATA 1 to 4).
- Transfer rate is up to 300 MB/s.

NV RAID
• Supports up to 4 SATA Hard drives
- RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 or JBOD is supported
- Supports up to 8 drives for RAID function.
MSI Reminds You...
• The RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.


Audio

• Chip integrated by Realtek® ALC888
- Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
- Compliant with Azalia 1.0 spec.


LAN

- Supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Vitesse® VSC8301


Internal I/O Connectors

- ATX 24-Pin power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / System FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 4 ports
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 4 x serial ATA connectors
- 1 x serial port connector
- 2 x ATA133 HD connectors
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- Clear CMOS jumper
MSI Reminds You...
• The floppy disk cable will be optional.


Back Panel I/O Ports

- 1 x Parallel port
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 1 x Coaxial SPDIF put
- 1 x 5 in 1 Audio jack
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack


BIOS

• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.

[perkam]

Eh...Nvidia's courting Intel a tad much these days...

Perkam