I am running with an older nForce chipset myself on my ASUS board. So when I came across this piece below on the nForce4 chipsets and the boards that support them, my ears perked right on up.

As recently as a few months ago, there was no arguing that the best chipsets for Pentium processors came from Intel. While ATI, ULi, SiS, and VIA all offer competing products, Intel’s reputation as the market leader left no doubt about who was in the driver’s seat. But with the Intel Edition of its nForce4 chipset, NVIDIA has become the first vendor to call Intel’s dominance of the high-end segment of the market into question.

So today, those who want everything from their motherboards have a choice: the Intel 955X, or the NVIDIA nForce4 Intel Edition chipsets. The “Intel Edition” (IE) nomenclature is necessary to distinguish this chipset from the original nForce4 offerings, which were designed for AMD Athlon 64 systems. In that arena, you’ll find differing versions of the nForce4 called the Ultra, Professional, and SLI. For the Intel platform, however, the only nForce4 offering available is both SLI-capable and also equipped to the max. [Read the rest]