Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 nForce4 Ultra Review @ PCStats

"Of course there's more to the nForce4 Ultra than just PCI Express. One of the most exciting new features is the integration of four Serial ATA II channels. With compatible hard drives, SATA II can burst transfer up to 300MB/s, twice that of standard SATA drives. Sustained transfer rates will be substantially lower than that, but I'm willing to wager they will still be comfortably higher than today's fastest SATA hard drives can muster."
You may also notice that most nForce4 boards have a "I am afraid of change" layout situation going on with the 16x PCIe slot. Instead of it being close to the processor its down more in the middle of the board. I suspect this has something to do with saving money since an SLI version is likely to use the same basic PCB.

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