NVIDIA has announced details about its upcoming MCP61 family of integrated graphics chipsets. As you know from before the MCP61 chipset is a single chip solution which will share the market with its brother in arms GeForce 6100. NVIDIA will have three variants of the MCP61 family-MCP61P, MCP61S and MCP61V. MCP61P is the premium product with support for one PCI Express x16, two PCI Express x1, standard definition video output, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 USB ports, four SATAII, RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and ASF 2.0 management. It will also be the only member of the MCP61 family to have an sDVO output for external video output capabilities such as DVI, component and TV out. MCP61S is the standard variant with a single PCI Express x 8 slot and two PCI Express x1 slots. Two SATA ports with support for RAID 0, 10/100 ethernet and eight USB 2.0 ports will also be available. MCP61V is the value part and is similar to MCP61S except for the lack of an external PCI Express graphics slot. Nevertheless, MCP61V still retains two PCI Express x1 slots. All MCP61 products are fully compliant with Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Premium with Aero glass. The premium MCP61P will have a 425 MHz graphics clock while MCP61S and MCP61V will be clocked slightly lower at 375 MHz. Launch of the MCP61 family is expected near the middle of 1H Q3'06 for MCP61S and MCP61V. MCP61P is expected to launch 2H Q4'06. Pricing on the new chipset family is unknown at the moment, but the MCP61 is expected to be significantly cheaper than the current GeForce 6100 family products.