NVIDIA nForce 500 Series MCPs for Intel

	NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI	NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI
Segment	Enthusiast	Performance SLI
CPU	Intel Socket 775 Core™2 Extreme Core 2 Duo Pentium D 9XX Pentium D 8XX Pentium 4	Intel Socket 775 Core™2 Extreme Core 2 Duo Pentium D 9XX Pentium D 8XX Pentium 4 Celeron D
NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology	Yes 2 x16	Yes 2 x8
FSB (MHz)	1066 MHz	1066 MHz
DDR2 Memory (MHz)	667 MHz	667 MHz
PCI Express
# Lanes	48 lanes	20 lanes
# Links	11 links	5 links
Configuration	16, 16, 8, 1, 1, 1,1, 1, 1, 1, 1	8, 8, 1, 1, 1 or 16, 1, 1, 1, 1
SATA/PATA drives	6/2	4/4
SATA speed	3Gb/s	3Gb/s
RAID	0,1,0+1,5	0,1,0+1,5
NVIDIA MediaShield™ Storage Technology	Yes	Yes
Native Gigabit Ethernet Connections	2	1
NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology	Yes	No
NVIDIA DualNet® technology	Yes	No
Teaming	Yes	No
TCP/IP Acceleration	Yes	No
NVIDIA nTune™ Utility	Yes	Yes
USB ports	10	8
PCI Slots	5	5
Audio	HDA (Azalia)	HDA (Azalia)