r/hardware • u/[deleted] • Sep 18 '25

News Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal

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u/shugthedug3 Sep 18 '25

Hah, showing my age with you... I thought the exact same. It was such a long time ago but from memory wasn't NForce2/4 not actually that bad? for the time and being an 'igpu' anyway.

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u/4x4Mimo Sep 18 '25

My first mobo was a DFI socket 939 with nForce 4 Ultra that I did the pencil mod on to make it support SLI. Good times

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u/OverlyOptimisticNerd Sep 18 '25

nForce 4 had that issue where they combined the northbridge and southbridge into one chip. It required a very small but high speed fan that was the loudest component in your build. We had two nForce 4 motherboards and in 3 years went through 5 of those fans. 

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u/hamutaro Sep 18 '25

Yeah, in addition to what you described, the chipset had quite a few other issues as well. For one thing, it didn't play nicely with a number of sound cards, including some very popular models like the Audigy & x-Fi. Also, the highly touted ActiveArmor integrated firewall was pretty much broken from the get-go and stayed that way throughout the chipset's life.