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Now that mainboards with the PCI Express bus for the Athlon 64 processor are available in shops, we are glad to offer you our review of one of the first products based on NVIDIA’s nForce4 Ultra chipset!.

The new PCI Express bus first came to PC users back in the early summer on mainboards for Pentium 4 processors, while the Athlon 64 community had to live on with older AGP 8x and PCI buses. Of course, it was not satisfying at all for most users, especially as the leading graphics card makers focused primarily on the PCI Express x16 solutions. However, there was no way out for a while: Intel was the only chipset maker then to have mastered mass production of PCI Express-supporting chipsets and remained such throughout the last summer and fall. And as you know, Intel doesn’t produce chipsets for the competitor’s CPUs.
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Review: x-bitlabs

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