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NVIDIA's Socket 775 Core Logic Coming Soon

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-into-the-big-boy-space dept.

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."

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  1. The question is by alexo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will it support SoundStorm?

    (Pirst Fost?)

    1. Re:The question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


      No. SoundStorm is dead.

      The motherboard mfgrs weren't getting enough positive feedback from it, it was expensive (the Dolby license was not the only reason), and Creative bought Sensura, whose technology it used.

    2. Re:The question is by Temporal · · Score: 4, Funny

      The motherboard mfgrs weren't getting enough positive feedback from it, it was expensive (the Dolby license was not the only reason), and Creative bought Sensura, whose technology it used.

      Sure, you can come up with all the excuses you want for why soundstorm died, but we all know the real reason is this.

    3. Re:The question is by Evangelion · · Score: 3, Insightful


      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.

    4. Re:The question is by doofusclam · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

  2. Highly doubtful. by DeeKayWon · · Score: 2, Informative

    They've pretty much declared that Soundstorm is dead, save for the possibility of it showing up as add-on card in the future.

  3. Re:More propietary crap by stuffisgood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    --
    My Site, My Life
  4. Re:More propietary crap by crow · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm running nForce-2 on my Myth box, and I haven't had any unexplained freezes. Did you monitor the CPU temperature? Overheating is the most common cause of random freezes. It's quite easy to use insufficient fans or improperly-attached heat sinks.

    I've also heard some suggestions to use the pci=noapic command-line option when booting the kernel (in your grub.conf or equivalent); I'm not sure if that's a nForce issue or a 2.6 issue.

  5. Re:More propietary crap by Keltan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

  6. Re:Poor server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link to the official press release, no need to guess further.

  7. Continuance of SLI in nVidia Intel mobo chipsets? by Piewalker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will nVidia continue to pursue SLI configurations in Intel mobos? I think it makes sense to do so. Intel chipsets have a much bigger market, and SLI is just barely coming of age. SLI would certainly distinguish nVidia from other Intel chipset manufacturers. Sounds like nVidia is doing well enough to expand into the Pentium/Celeron/Xeon market. Finally some options for P4 users! But what will they call it??? Will they call their Intel chipsets "nForce" or something else? Waiting for benchmarks...

  8. Re:Continuance of SLI in nVidia Intel mobo chipset by Piewalker · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the press release: "Informed gamers and PC enthusiasts know that NVIDIA SLI graphics technology and NVIDIA nForce MCPs are synonymous with incredible performance and exceptional features," said Drew Henry, general manager of platform business at NVIDIA. "I am excited to provide IDF attendees with a preview of the features and performance that NVIDIA nForce MCPs can bring to Intel-based PCs."

  9. Article pretty slim on information. by caryw · · Score: 2, Informative

    The link at the bottom of the page to the german "computerbase.de" provides much more information. Just make sure you run it through the fish.
    Even after fishing it provides more detail than the original article.
    - Cary
    --Fairfax Underground: Where Fairfax County comes out to play

  10. Re:More propietary crap by aztracker1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've seen as many issues with cheapy psu's as I have overheating.. also, many video cards are clocked to their max... I bought a radeon 9600 pro for my kid's pc, so he could play doom3 better, and it wasn't stable under load to video... when I underclocked 1 notch in ati-util, it's been rock solid since then.

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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
  11. Re:Huh? Coming of age? by Piewalker · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apparantly you haven't seen recent benchmarks on SLI: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041123/ index.html and here for Doom 3, Counterstrike and FarCry benches: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2258 &p=4 The store you work probably isn't selling SLI because the new SLI PCI-Express mobos were just released. They're available on Newegg, CDW, etc.

  12. The better question is by Merk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.