Nvidia’s nForce4 for Intel to arrive on April 6

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:42 pm

Nvidia will launch its nForce4 Intel Edition media and communications processor (MCP), which supports Nvidia’s scalable link interface (SLI) graphics architecture on April 6, according to the company.

The new MCP for Intel’s Pentium 4 platform, which was unveiled at CeBIT 2005, will be featured on motherboards from at least eight Taiwan-based motherboard makers.

Motherboard makers Abit Computer, Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) said they have already prepared Nvidia nForce 4 SLI-based motherboards supporting Pentium 4 CPUs for their high-end product lines, especially for the gaming segment.

The boards are expected to be priced at about US$200, which was confirmed by sources at Abit for its new Fatal1ty board.

According to a report from the Inquirer, Abit’s new board will be called the Fatal1ty NI8 SLI and will feature the company’s Dual Otes cooling technology. The sources at Abit indicated that its new board will begin shipping at the end of the month, and the company expects to ship about 20,000 units per month.

However, some makers argue that shipments of motherboards featuring Nvidia’s new MCP will not begin picking up until the third quarter, following Intel’s CPU price cuts. The chip giant’s introduction of its dual-core Smithfield platform later this year may also help push sales in the second half of this year, the makers added.

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20050401A4015.html

deadly-app · Post by **deadly-app** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:29 am

Doesn't interest me much, me being an AMD guy, but its nice to know none the less.

Nvidia is really taking a stand in motherboards now by branching into intel, as I beleive they were exclusively amd beforehand.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:08 am

the reall question is weather it can match intel for chipset performance. In the past intel's own chipsets have set the bar for performance while all the others had to try to play catch up.

deadly-app · Post by **deadly-app** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:12 am

definitely, and thats where it is going to get interesting. NF4 has been proven to be a pretty stable chip, and SLI alone is going to get tons of people onto the bandwagon. Everyone who previously was intel and wanted sli are going to pick up this board, whether or not it performs well.

It might not match intel in terms of stability, but performance, im sure of it.