NForce 500

The nForce 500 is a motherboard chipset series and the successor to the nForce4 series. It was revealed by NVIDIA on 2006-03-07 and released on May 23, 2006. The nForce 500 series supports AMD's Socket AM2 and support for Intel's LGA 775 has also been added.

Specifications

 * Support for NVIDIA SLI technology, including Quad SLI (enabling the simultaneous use of four GPUs) and SLI LinkBoost developments.
 * Support for up to six SATA 3 Gbit/s hard disks and ten USB 2.0 devices.
 * Support for dual RAID 5.

==Chipsets for AMD processors ==

nForce 590 SLI MCP

 * Enthusiast dual GPU segment, with full 16+16 SLI support.
 * Uses the C51XE northbridge and MCP55XE southbridge. The two chips provide a total of 46 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 570 SLI

 * Performance dual GPU segment.
 * Total of 28 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 570 LT SLI

 * Performance dual GPU segment.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 570 Ultra

 * Performance single GPU segment, lacking SLI support.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 560 SLI

 * Performance dual GPU segment, featuring only one Ethernet and four SATA ports.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 560

 * Mainstream single GPU segment, lacking SLI support, and featuring only one Ethernet and four SATA ports.
 * Total of 19 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 550

 * Mainstream single GPU segment, lacking SLI and RAID 5 support, and featuring only one Ethernet and four SATA ports.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 520

 * Value/Mainstream single GPU segment, lacking SLI and RAID 5 support, and featuring only one 10/100 Ethernet and four SATA ports.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.
 * Uses MCP65S northbridge.

nForce 520 LE

 * Value single GPU segment, lacking SLI, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 support, and featuring only one 10/100 Ethernet, 8USB ports two SATA ports.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 500 SLI (nForce4 SLI AM2)

 * Performance dual GPU segment.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 500 Ultra (nForce4 Ultra AM2)

 * Performance single GPU segment.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 500 (nForce4 AM2)

 * Value single GPU segment.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.

==Chipsets for Intel processors ==

nForce 590 SLI

 * Enthusiast dual GPU segment, with full x16 + x16 SLI support.
 * Total of 48 PCI Express lanes.

nForce 570 SLI

 * Performance dual GPU segment, with x8 + x8 SLI support.
 * Total of 20 PCI Express lanes.