NVIDIA Announces Intel nForce Chipsets Coming

ruiner5000 writes "NVIDIA has just made a surprise announcement about their cross license agreement with Intel to make chipsets. This means that the bragging rights AMD users have had about having the superior nForce chipsets is about to end, and it will also bring NVIDIA's superior Linux support to Intel users. We have a statement and press release from NVIDIA about planned shipment dates, and expected products NVIDIA will be aiming their chipsets at. With the nForce 4 NVIDIA is aiming for desktops, laptops, workstations, and servers."

Comments

Am I the only one who saw this coming?

[Valarauk]

Intel and NVIDIA cut a deal with Sony Online Entertainment to get their products given "premier" status, complete with back to back advirtisments while loading games like Everquest2.

nVidia for my video, not my chipset

[dlZ]

I've worked with the nForce chipsets before, but for my AMD needs I still prefer VIA. And on the Intel side, it'll take me a lot to sway away from Intel boards with the Intel chipsets. I'm mostly working with Windows machines on the Intel side, and the Intel chipset has never given me an issue, unlike SIS and even Via.
The average machine going out of my shop is going into a home with no real PC experience. I have to worry more about spyware than maybe some odd chipset incompatibility.

Not too hot for AMD.

[SnowCrashed]

The NForce boards were really one of the best things about AMD's chips for people who wanted a good all in one mobo for a basic system (esp. the NForce2 with the onboard GF4mx which totally rocked Intel's "extreme" garbage). While AMD rigs will still probably be cheaper, this is quite a low blow. However, maybe it won't make much difference with ATI's XPress chipsets coming out. They like they will be the ultimate solution for a while, at least until newer things come.

Chipset drivers

[Derf_X]

Am I te only who thinks it's not normal for chipset to require drivers to be installed. Every chipset I tried works out of the box without drivers needing to be installed, be it on Windows or Linux.

Iwas very surprised the first time I did troubleshooting on my friends computer who has an nForce chipset. I was actually troubleshooting his GeForce video card (in Windows) so I uninstalled the drivers, but I actually uninstalled the chipset drivers because I didn't know the chipset required some. Same when I installed Linux on his computer: I knew the videocard required drivers but the chipset?!?!

This is ridiculous! It conviced me never to buy a motherboard with an nForce chipset. Now if I could only find a videocard with open source drivers that support accelerated TV-out under Linux...

Re:Superior Linux Support?

[EvilGrin666]

My Linux desktop box (yes, they do exist!) has a Tyan Tiger motherboard with an Intel chipset. A matrox graphics card and a realtek network card. It works flawlessly with Linux 2.6.9 using drivers readily avalible in the offical tree. I don't need to switch, I'm already there.

I agree with your Asus comment. My gaming rig has an A7N8X deluxe which was a pig to setup and get running. Once its there with XP installed its fine though.

Re:Doesn't matter

[doublebackslash]

Ok, I'm responding to an AC, but I can't resist.
Hyperthreading can SLOW DOWN your computer. Why? Because the two tinstructions that are supposed to execute similtaniously aren't allways on the same set of data, due to poor scheduling. This means that data is 'thrashed' in and out of low level cache to higherlevel cash and main system memory. Even with dual channel support on cheap chips it dosn't make up for the fact that their processor can't keep up with AMD's on operations (read: they could, in theory, get more data to the cpu, but can't do much with it fast enough), and as far as hyperthreading making the desktop more responsive, well, this MAY be true, in similarly performing chips, but save the cash from an intel HT chip, and buy a higerperforming AMD at the same price (most likely a 64 w/ hypertransport) and your latency issues will go DOWN.
Intel hasn't made a decent chip since the P3, and I never even bothered to invest in a p4 because of the price to performance disparity between AMD and intel.
I don't expect intel to be the lagger for much longer, but they have a lot of work to do to get the price down, and the performance up (across the board, not just in synthetic benchmarks).
Thats just the way I sees it.

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