Long ago since the emergence nForce 780a SLI, NVIDIA chipset series back out to the AMD platform. NForce 980a SLI offers a combination of socket AM3 and DDR3 are, of course, along with support for SLI.
During this time, users of the latest generation of AMD processors that come in packaging Socket AM3 (II Phenom X2 and X4, and the Athlon X2 and X4 II) can only pair the processor to the motherboard with a chipset made by AMD. In addition to limiting the choice of chipset pairing, it also means that users are the latest AMD processors can not use multi-GPU solution in addition to technology Crossfire with Radeon graphics cards which incidentally is also produced by AMD / ATI. Another alternative is not available because the chipset supports a combination of socket AM3 and DDR3 memory is only made by AMD (the last of the series 785 and 790). Thus, whether the user Athlon Phenom II and II must forever discard their hopes to be able to use multi-GPU SLI solution? Of course not! NVIDIA has launched the latest nForce chipset series for the “correct” this problem: nForce 980a SLI.
NForce themselves are not new in the world of computers. NVIDIA launched its first nForce chipset for the Athlon XP processor platform in 2001, amid the onslaught of competition from different manufacturers different chipsets for this platform in those days. Apparently, nForce has a relatively higher performance than any other chipset for the Athlon XP processor time. This immediately raises a name in the arena of competition NVIDIA chipset for AMD processors. In fact, the only time that NVIDIA just launched a desktop chipset for the motherboard. NForce triumph continued until the next variants. In recent years, NVIDIA also has released several variants nForce for Intel.