As NVIDIA's World Turns...
It's been a whirl-wind past few weeks for NVIDIA - bad mobility GPUs, the possibility of seeing NVIDIA inside Apple machines and now the death of the NVIDIA chipset products. Quite a bit for a single company to take all at once, but how much truth is there to the idea of the end of the nForce? We take yet ANOTHER look at NVIDIA...
NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI Chipset Update
Subject: Chipsets | May 8, 2008 - 06:16 PM | Ryan Shrout
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At the request and repeated insistence of NVIDIA, we decided to retest
our performance results above; NVIDIA said they had seen no problems
with the Hybrid Power over the mGPU as dramatic as we saw here. We
retested all three titles at got some slightly different results; at
least on the one title that stood out:
New Hyperion Pro drivers released
Subject: Chipsets | April 28, 2008 - 11:22 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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New Hyperion Pro drivers have just been released - the drivers for all VIA chipsets (so long as they're not too old) and all Microsoft operating systems. This new version, 5.17a has had the built in VIA Falcon IDE driver updated to version 2.50A. The full list of components includes:
INF V3.00A
AGP V4.60A
V-RAID V5.70A and RAID Tools v5.40
VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.50A
Will AMD phase out the 790X for the 790GX?
Subject: Chipsets | April 23, 2008 - 06:04 PM | Ryan Shrout
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It would appear that the move towards all chipsets having integrated graphics is picking up speed as word has it AMD will be phasing out the 790X chipset and replace it with the 790GX. The 790GX was just recently released and was kind of a surprise to us but in reality it makes sense for AMD to make this move.
The AMD 790GX chipset pops up to surprise us
Subject: Chipsets | April 16, 2008 - 12:19 PM | Ryan Shrout
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I saw a post on Fudzilla that shows the first shots of a motherboard based on the AMD 790GX chipset - a product that hasn't really made its official introduction yet. The chipset offers most of the features of the 790FX chipset but with the added benefit of having integrated graphics on it as well; slightly better than the 780G platform that we were initially pretty impressed with.
Intel P45 chipset has problems with modern graphics cards
Subject: Chipsets | March 28, 2008 - 07:08 PM | Ryan Shrout
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According to this report on Digitimes, Intel is delaying the P45 chipset until mid-June due to some compatibility issues with its primary x16 PCIe slot and modern graphics cards.
Intel is delaying the launch schedule of its P45 chipset
from originally in May to mid-June, according to sources at motherboard
makers.
NVIDIA and VIA in talks of acquisition
Subject: Chipsets | March 18, 2008 - 09:24 AM | Ryan Shrout
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Apparently NVIDIA and VIA are in talks to merge, with the larger NVIDIA obviously doing the buying and the aging, struggling VIA looking to sell. We recently talked with VIA about their upcoming processor line and can't help but think that NVIDIA still desperately wants to get into the general purpose processor world to have a snowball's chance of competing with Intel in the long run.
Would you like a free AMD 780G chipset?
Subject: Chipsets | March 4, 2008 - 02:46 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Are you interested in getting a new, AMD 780G chipset, for FREE?? If so, we have a contest for you...that's right we have two AMD 780Gs to give away to our loyal readers and forum members.
A whole new AMD chipset
The AMD 780G chipset combines powerful integrated graphics, an improved SB700 south bridge and support for Athlon X2 and Phenom processors to offer by far the best IGP solution we have seen yet. And Hybrid CrossFire might just make 780G worth while for more than you might think.
Intel X48 Chipset launched pushed back into March
Subject: Chipsets | February 5, 2008 - 12:24 PM | Ryan Shrout
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No no, this time we MEAN it. For reallys. The X48 chipset is coming in mid-March, according to Intel according to Digitimes.
Intel has informed motherboard makers that it will
definitely launch its X48 chipset in mid March, two months later than
its original launch date, according to industry sources. The X48
chipset was originally slated for launch in January, but Intel pushed
it back as inventory of X38 had yet to be cleared, the sources said.
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