Friday, August 1st 2008
Goodbye NVIDIA nForce?
If the report from Taiwanese industry observer DigiTimes holds ground, NVIDIA could be wrapping up its chipset division. This was revealed by sources at top motherboard manufacturers who have attended a meeting with NVIDIA where the company sought support from them to continue the chipset business. The manufacturers didn't show obvious or in other words, positive support.
Here's how the exit of nForce could affect the industry and you :
Update: NVIDIA has responded to the DigiTimes article saying that they are not leaving the chipset business and have no intention of doing so.source
Source:
DigiTimes
Here's how the exit of nForce could affect the industry and you :
- It will debunk any recent speculation that Apple will be adopting Nvidia chipsets for its upcoming notebook products
- You could be using the same motherboard for multi-GPU configurations across both ATI and NVIDIA hardware
- The subtraction of the BR-04 chip on X58 motherboards could still fetch SLI given that some manufacturers hint that they wouldn't bother using it, forcing NVIDIA to "give it away", meaning use it directly on the platform
Update: NVIDIA has responded to the DigiTimes article saying that they are not leaving the chipset business and have no intention of doing so.source
63 Comments on Goodbye NVIDIA nForce?
xfire scales pretty well in almost all games.theres no advantage for sli over xfire.the 3800 series cards from ati used the SFR "Split Frame Rendering" where each frame is divided in two and each half is sent to a different GPU to be processed. wich is used in the 8-9-200 series cards from nvidia.
now in the 4800 series ATI came up with SuperTiling: Under this mode the screen is divided into several small squared portions (or “tiles”), each one measuring 32x32 pixels, and each video card is in charge of handling part of the available tiles.With dynamic load balancing
technology implemented in the new cards,using to different cards in speed won't be a problem cuz the piles will be divided on the cards so that the faster card will get more piles to render than the slower one.
Amd claims a great advantge for this method over the "SFR" used in the prev. radeon series.
Actually the 4870 in xfire beats the 280gtx in sli in a lot of games.
you can check at techreport or anandtech the review of the 4870x2/4870cf.
Talking about nvidia's sli, i think only AMD can save nvidia now.If AMd comes up with a great processor,then nvidia can use its nforce a series with AMD's processors and it wont need to get the nehalem license.
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And have you noticed the the innovative products they've been showcasing for the last few months? Chipsets with factory cooling that can convert between air, water, and even DICE. There are a few other things they've been doing as well, but I don't feel like looking them up right now. lol.Neither are Intel's. In fact, in recent years the Intel chipsets handily outperform the NV ones. Intel does lack in the IGP arena tho.
Personally, I hope all the major manufacturers do stop making NV mobos. I want to be able to run multi-card setups on ANY chipset. I hate this having to choose between SLI and Crossfire.
I've seen their flashy boards, but I'm not dumb enough to shell out that kind of cash when it can be better spent. It kind of reminds me of ECS. They make some "high(er) end" boards or w/e but I'm really not stupid enough to buy one haha. Foxconn is going to have to work to convince this guy :)
And when it comes to intel, I'd like to keep my board problem free. There's always something that pisses me off with their stuff. I've been using nvidia since nforce2 and haven't ever had a problem. But I come across all kinds of intel boards that make me hate them more than the day before. For example (now these were POS dells), but a laptop and a desktop with the same intel usb controller fried two of my flash drives. How does that happen? I have no idea, but someone from intel would've got stabbed if they were there.
edit: And then another usb controller would randomly drop connection. If you plug the device into a different controller it would work or if you uninstalled and reinstalled it, otherwise, it'd say nothing at all was connected. A lot of problems could be due to manuf of the board, but when you have so many problems and ONLY on intel boards, you just have to wonder.
My motherboard can't overclock very well due to the vcore which is all over the place regardless of PSU.
Only way I have been able to OC the CPU is by raising the vcore higher than necessary.
And the only chipsets I've ever had problems with on an Intel platform is nVidia. I do like their AMD chipsets tho.
Reviews ave also said it's not a fantastic overclocker but decided to see for myself.
Otherwise it is rocksolid at stock speeds and I didnt need to reinstall windows for this motherboard.
I just replaced my ABIT VIA chipset AGP motherboard with this one, forgot to set the boot priority to CD and windows popped up.
Removed the VIA chipset drivers, installed the nVidia chipset drivers and away it went flawless.
To check if there was any performance decrease I installed a fresh copy of windows on to my second HDD and found no difference in desktop loading speed or gaming performance.
Poor PR people. Why are they always the last to know?
Reports of NVIDIA abandoning the chipset market are completely untrue - "at this point in time". That is to say, they still have a lot of inventory to clear.;)
thats who foxconn is, thats there stock chipset cooler to
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=196206
don't post things in here that insult a manuf unless you know the facts about themyou find an ECS that will push a QX9650 to 5.8ghz and post it here for me and i will admit foxconn is no better than ECS
Whoopdeegoddamndoo. So, let me guess, you like vista/M$, intel, foxconn and some other asshole manufacturers. Good, I don't give a shit and have plenty of grounds to hate or dislike them. Exceptions to the rule doesn't sway my judgement of a product or company.
Oh, and I know I'm an asshole and I don't really care. All of my positions are always against the grain.
ps: i hate brand whores
Nvidia will still launch the MCP7A, but the question is what the company will do after that. It will sell the nForce 200 as a compliment for the X58 chipset to allow for SLi on an Intel platform, but again, most motherboard manufacturers are unlikely to add this chip to an already expensive motherboard. Besides, it adds a lot of extra heat and requires extra cooling which adds even more cost.
Besides, with no QPI license, lack of support from motherboard manufacturers etc. it's only a matter of time before they call it quits.
What is that thing which looks like a mouldy toilet roll next to the blue LED fan?
oh and i'm loving the anit-vidsta comment cause that just proves you can't try anything new. don't like MS? thats fine get a mac wait no foxconn makes there stuff
Not with performance but with installation.
It had a random and pointless password on the .bin file.
The BIOS would not install as it had the wrong AWDFLASH file included.
I had to install it manually for it to work.
Instructions were misleading.
Forum support is terrible because of the layout and the fact I and most others would get http400 error instead of being able to connect with the forum.
wooo, 125w, if your board can't handle that, it's crap through and through (whether it supports it or not).
and not that newegg is reliable, but it seems quite a few people don't think those are awesome boards.