NVidia's mobo chipset... comments?

[Tiretool]

ExtremeTech has a preview of the NVidia nForce core logic chipsets.

But no benchmarks yet...

[Tiretool]

Come on Xayd... maybe this might convince you to come away from the dark side?

[Xayd]

lol, I'm readin' already, gimme a few minutes .

Xayd

[Xayd]

Ok, this all makes much more sense than Intel's integrated component mobos that go into crap-ass Dell, Gateway, and Compaq machines, but there are a few big if's here...

1) They say it's gonna be expensive, but how expensive? The whole point of an integrated mobo for a PC is to cut costs at the expense of performance.

2) They can charge what they want for their vid cards because exept for ATI they're all that's out there. They have alot to prove here, so how is a very high price going to get them any attention from would be OEMs?

This has about a 50/50 chance from what I can see. One, they cut their prices and try to compete with the integrated Intel motherboards. Two, they maintain their high price, whatever it is, and make this their first huge blunder as a company.

In the OEM PC market, everything is crap, and price is king. No amount of benchmarks or performance claims will change that in my opinion.

We shall see .

Xayd

[Tiretool]

One of those previews estimated the motherboards to be in the $100-125 price range... Very cost effective if you ask me.

[Xayd]

If that's the case they might make some waves with this. With the death of the P3, Intel has no integrated component motherboards to put out there, so nVidia and AMD might make some progress with this, as long as the mobo is below 130 dollars .

Xayd