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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.

  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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

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

  5. 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...