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  • NVIDIA SoundStorm

    Combined with the APU, NVIDIA SoundStorm(TM) audio provides Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding and connections for headphones; front left and right, and rear left and right speakers; a center channel; and subwoofer connection.

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Digital Media Platform

 

NVIDIA nForce™2 powers all of your digital media applications by combining performance, GeForce™4 MX graphics and a digital media gateway in a value-priced desktop PC. Get creative and burn your own CDs, create and edit videos and watch them in your home theater. Then share what you create over your home network or via a broadband connection with your family and friends.

  • Awesome system performance and GeForce MX graphics: An innovative system architecture with a revolutionary memory architecture—including NVIDIA nForce2’s DualDDR memory controllers—provides the best performance for today's PCs. GeForce4 MX graphics deliver new levels of realism for 3D applications, including games and multimedia tools.
  • A digital media gateway with revolutionary audio and connectivity: The NVIDIA SoundStorm™ audio solution delivers unprecedented 3D positional audio effects and real-time encoded Dolby® Digital 5.1 cinematic-quality audio. The NVIDIA nForce2 PC platform also provides complete digital media connectivity and home networking, with DualNet™ Ethernet controllers, USB 2.0, and a FireWire® port.
  • High-speed networking and the latest storage technology: NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet technology provides the fastest network connectivity available, with the added security of NVIDIA Firewall technology—a network-level, hardware optimized firewall solution. SATA and NVIDIA RAID enable users to have up to 6 storage devices and implement RAID 0 (for increased performance), RAID 1 for data and operating system backup, or RAID 0+1 (for better performance and backup).

    NVIDIA nForce2 features vary by product and/or motherboard design. Please confirm actual product specs with your motherboard manufacturer.


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Demos: VideoFX
VideoFX takes advantage of the power of the nForce2 by allowing special effects to be applied to video footage in real-time.


   



Demos: Bugs
The only things more disgusting than being swarmed by alien bugs is to render without NVIDIA’s accelerated antialiasing hardware.