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NVIDIA's Socket 775 Core Logic Coming Soon 47

Posted by Hemos 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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  • The question is (Score:4, Interesting)

    by alexo ( 9335 ) on Monday February 28, 2005 @11:43AM (#11803394) Journal
    Will it support SoundStorm?

    (Pirst Fost?)

    • Highly doubtful. (Score:3, Informative)

      by DeeKayWon ( 155842 )
      They've pretty much declared that Soundstorm is dead, save for the possibility of it showing up as add-on card in the future.

    • Re:The question is (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 28, 2005 @11:47AM (#11803428)

      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.

      • 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.


        That might not be true. According to hexus and theinquirer.net, soundstorm will return in the next chipset iteration. Which is nice - the sound on my nforce boards is fantastic.

        • Re:The question is (Score:3, Insightful)

          by Evangelion ( 2145 )

          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.

          • Re:The question is (Score:2, Insightful)

            by doofusclam ( 528746 )
            Good point, but what most people liked about the nvidia APU was the realtime DD encoding - not the nice d/a converters that nvidia specced but most manufacturers discarded in place of crappy realtek codecs. This DD encoding was on lots of boards, and for someone like me who uses sp/dif the quality of the analogue outs is moot anyways.

      • Re:The question is (Score:5, Funny)

        by Temporal ( 96070 ) on Monday February 28, 2005 @12:19PM (#11803726) Journal
        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 [nvidia.com].

    • The better question is (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Merk ( 25521 )

      Will it, or any other motherboard, really, truly, fully support Linux anytime soon?

      I'm strongly considering buying the pcHDTV HTDV card even though I don't really care about watching HDTV. Why? Because it's designed for Linux.

      This weekend I had to haul a 5ish year old SB Live card out of an old server and install it on a new machine, because the onboard sound card on the new nForce2 motherboard wasn't properly supported in Linux.

      I think there's a huge untapped market for hardware that's fully op

  • Samsung used a strategy like this to outmanuever their competition in the Japanese electronics market. Basically, make a really good version of the lowest common denominator part of an electronics system. If it's good enough, rival companies will use it within your own system instead of developing their own in house. In this way Sony made TVs that were making Samsung money as well.

  • Continuance of SLI in nVidia Intel mobo chipsets? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Piewalker ( 777952 ) on Monday February 28, 2005 @12:48PM (#11804067) Homepage
    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...

  • Article pretty slim on information. (Score:3, Informative)

    by caryw ( 131578 ) <carywiedemann@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on Monday February 28, 2005 @12:54PM (#11804151) Homepage
    The link at the bottom of the page to the german "computerbase.de" provides much more information. Just make sure you run it through the fish [altavista.com].
    Even after fishing it provides more detail than the original article.
    - Cary
    --Fairfax Underground [fairfaxunderground.com]: Where Fairfax County comes out to play

  • When nVidia starts Open Sourcing their motherboard drivers, I'll start caring about their motherboard products. Sadly, I use their graphics cards. :-( I feel like I either have the choice of nice 3D graphics or Open Source drivers, and I pick nice 3D graphics.

    But with motherboards, there are other offerings out there, and they will tell you enough about how their stuff works that the Open Source community can create drivers for it. Heck, some of them even actively cooperate in writing the drivers. I do

    • Check again, it's fine now. The Linux kernel has had open drivers for nvidia ethernet, AGP, IDE and sound for quite a while now. The only thing lacking open drivers is Soundstorm (the fancy sound hardware on some but not all nforce2 boards), but it's dead anyway, and at worst you can run it in ac97 mode with the intel8x0 drivers from ALSA. Or just do like me and get a Creative emu10k1-compatible card (hands down the best open Linux drivers).
  • Anand just posted and article http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i =2364 [anandtech.com] about it.

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