NFORCE chip M/B's are coming with

[Maschulo]

can someone explain these motherboard to me, the ones with the NFORCE Chip on them?? what is it?
is it better?

 

[Maschulo]

is this one without the Nforce chip better?

Asus K8V SE Deluxe

or is this one with the Nforce chip better?

Asus K8N-E Deluxe

what is the big deal?

 

[shortylickens]

Wow dude, you just started a post with "IS IT BETTER??"

Just to get things started, I believe the nForce 1 chipset was buggy and horrible.
The nForce2 chipset was nice because of all the onboard features and overclocking.
The nForce3-150 chipset had problems and the nForce3-250 looks very nice.
Not too many motherboard companies have screwed up an nForce 2 chipset.

Will tell more you when Fedex delivers my Gigabyte nF3-250 and 64 3400+, either today or tomorrow.

 

[MrChad]

nVidia's nForce is a motherboard chipset for AMD-based systems. The motherboard chipset basically controls all of the communication between the CPU, the RAM, the PCI bus, etc.

The significance of the nForce was that it finally brought stability to AMD-based motherboards. Before nVidia came along, the only option for most AMD builders was VIA chipset motherboards, which were notorious for driver and hardware incompatibility issues. Thanks to the nForce, AMD systems were finally able to compete with Intel-based systems in stability and reliability. VIA has cleaned up its act quite a bit since then (mostly due to competition from nVidia), but for performance and stability, nForce-based motherboards are still the top choice for many AMD builders.

 

[Davegod]

"nforce" is just a brand name Nvidia uses to name it's motherboard chipsets.

To simplify heavily, motherboards are made roughly as follows:
A company (such as Nvidia, VIA, SIS or Intel) designs a chipset, and usually makes the key chips such as Northbridge and Southbridge chips. Other companies (such as ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte, MSI and so on) then design the actual motherboards, making use of the chipset designs and the chips they buy from the chipset designers (aswell as other components from other suppliers).

In this way you have manufacturers like Asus producing boards based on many different chipsets. A motherboard that has an nforce chip on it is not necessarily "better", because those that dont will have somebody else's chip/design instead.

To use the two motherboards you give as example, the Asus K8V SE Deluxe is a motherboard made by Asus using a chipset called K8T800 which was designed by a company called VIA. The other board, the Asus K8N-E Deluxe, is based on the Nforce3-250 chipset which was designed by the company Nvidia. You will also find other manufacturers have motherboards based on chipsets by VIA and Nvidia.

Which is better? I dont know, though my guess would be it depends on what you need and what you want from the motherboard. MY suggestion would be to examine the features of each and eliminate the motherboard options that do not have what you need, then check some websites for performance indicators to see which of the suitable boards are faster, and also check some user comments on a board like this - hopefully some of which will follow this post

Hopefully that explains the situation to you and helps you make a more knowledgeable decision