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NVIDIA's Socket 775 Core Logic Coming Soon
Hack Jandy writes "NVIDIA dominates a large percentage of AMD chipset sales already, and next week they will reportedly make the announcement to pursue Intel based platforms as well. NVIDIA's General Manager claims March 1st (during the Intel Developer Forum) will be the date the world gets to see NVIDIA's SLI chipset running on a Socket 775 Intel motherboard."
Well at least they went to the trouble to make available some half-decent drivers for *nix systems. Its taken ATI a long time to get to the quality the Nvidia drivers have been for quite a while.
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Last time I checked, while ATI had better hardware than nVidia, their drivers were still poorly lacking. ATI seems to be able to come up with better/cheaper hardware (usually), but I have yet to see them come close to matching nVidia's drivers. nVidia updates their drivers more often, on more platforms, and supports more software* than ATI does. *by software, I mean games
There's a difference between "available from nVidia" and "available on a motherboard". Even if nVidia makes it, will any motherboard manufacurers include it? Or will they just go with the standard RealTek/AC97 onboard sound solutions?
There were only one or two actual boards that used the full SoundStorm solution -- because of it's price, it was relegated to Deluxe models, and the standard onboard sound solutions were used on the normal boards.
Good point, but what most people liked about the nvidia APU was the realtime DD encoding - not the nice d/a converters that nvidia specced but most manufacturers discarded in place of crappy realtek codecs. This DD encoding was on lots of boards, and for someone like me who uses sp/dif the quality of the analogue outs is moot anyways.
Will it, or any other motherboard, really, truly, fully support Linux anytime soon?
I'm strongly considering buying the pcHDTV HTDV card even though I don't really care about watching HDTV. Why? Because it's designed for Linux.
This weekend I had to haul a 5ish year old SB Live card out of an old server and install it on a new machine, because the onboard sound card on the new nForce2 motherboard wasn't properly supported in Linux.
I think there's a huge untapped market for hardware that's fully open. It doesn't even need to be the latest and greatest stuff. My SB Live is a prime example. If someone were selling new sound cards with a 5-year-old feature set, but with completely open hardware and APIs I'm sure they'd do great. Same with network cards and even graphic cards. Sometimes full support is more important than performance. Linux users may only be 1% of the market, but that market share is growing.