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NVIDIA® SLI™ technology
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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
NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology
2 x 16
1 x16, 2 x 8
2 x 8
2 x 8
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
NVIDIA MediaShield™ Storage Technology
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
NVIDIA DualNet® technology
Teaming
TCP/IP Acceleration
NVIDIA nTune™ Utility
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
*Note: NVIDIA LinkBoost™ technology has been removed as a feature from NVIDIA nForce® 590 SLI