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Nvidia to quit chipset business

If Intel are really planning to enter the graphics card market and make a push for gold, then really I'd would say they would be out their minds if they refused to allow SLI on their boards and they'd remove Nvidia out of the equation for multi-gpu setups.

Also, I'd love that to happen, just to show the two fingers to Nvidia and their greedy nature.
 
Their first Nforce chipsets were good & had some nice features. I think they got a bit lost after Nforce 3 or 4 though.
 
Tetsu said:
They are.


This is how they are shipped

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HAHAHAHA very funny, like it :D

But yea, and as so many other have already said, never bite the hand that feeds you, NVIDIA have been taking the mik for too long now...
 
To be honest these news are crazy, already disproven by Nvidia and it really doesn't make sense for them to do this :)
 
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Strife212 said:
I must be the only person who loves my nForce 6, excellent overclock, rock solid, good BIOS.
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Yeah the 680i was OK. My 680 was alright, better than Intels offering at the time.

The Nforce 2 and 4 were great. The 790i is also good, the corruption problems were fixed and they're great overclockers, and dont get as hot as people think.

Theres WAY too many immature uneducated kids on these forums with hate towards NV, just look at there comments.

Even though this so far seems to be untrue... it would be a bad thing if NV left the chipset market. Less competition is not a good thing, but this obvious fact isn't realised by many of the muppets on here.
 
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The above might be true but its will just be AMD based stuff and new board for Core2 chips, Laptops ect, There will be no Nfail Nehalem board, There will be no XFX and EVGA to sell them anyway lol
 
flibby said:
If Intel are really planning to enter the graphics card market and make a push for gold, then really I'd would say they would be out their minds if they refused to allow SLI on their boards and they'd remove Nvidia out of the equation for multi-gpu setups.
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Intel dont have much choice, all SLI needs is a motherboard with PCIe X16x2, infact in most cases it will even work on PCIe X8 x 2.

The Intel 975 chipset was designed for SLI and Crossfire support, but Nvidia wanted more of the pie, and their drivers will only enable SLI if they detect an Nvidia MCH. Several hacked drivers which enabled SLI for the 6800 series on the Intel 975 showed there was no performance loss with SLI on intel chipset motherboards.

Forcing motherboard OEMS to add yet another chip to the motherboard increases cost, and energy requirements to the system. Just because Nvidia wont unlock the driver to support intel natively.

Quite surprised intel bothered selling Nvidia the license to support Nehalem, while agreeing to retain the "need" for an nvidia chip to enable SLI.

Of course in the real world, the number of people who take SLI rather than wait for the next fastest single slot GPU are fairly limited, and while I did enjoy my SLI Voodoo 2, I would never go SLI again, so the Nvidia blocking SLI on intel chipsets does help reduce temptation!

And I bet there are a lot of Intel chipset board owners who might consider SLI who get crossfire because ATI arnt insisting on ATI/AMD motherboards for crossfire to work (and likely never will, ATi, and Intel are also cooperating with the Havok physics engine too)
 
If this is true, then it is unfortunate to see 1 less competitor in the market.

NF2, 3, 4. Ah! Those were the days! :D

Time to sell up my gtx sli and 780i set-up I guess.
 
NVidia's AMD chipsets have always been good - this seems to have been forgetten recently because of intel having better CPU's, everyone has focused on socket 775, understandably.
This was/ is still true on NForce 5, & as far as I know the latest Nvidia AMD chipsets are also solid in a way their 775 efforts don't seem to be.
I always wondered why that was - did NVidia never work out how to make good Intel chipsets or were AMD more open with information than Intel ?
If this news is true, I'm not sure it's good news. That would leave AMD & Intel as the only main provider of chipsets on their respective platforms (With VIA & SIS fading out at the moment anyway). Still, I reckon this news is much exaggerated.
 
Well seeing as Foxconn are the biggest OEM manufacture in the world, and have some of the best overclocking boards ever made there comments pretty much confirm that Nvidia chipsets are pure Nfail

" Foxconn announced today that it was not going to continue with the development of its planned Dreadnought motherboard due to issues with the NVIDIA 790i chipset.

Carl Brunning, the UK technical manager at Foxconn, told *****: “The [790i] chip is not of the quality standard that we needed for the Quantum Force range.”

Quantum Force is Foxconn’s relatively recent entry into the enthusiast motherboard space. It has already released the Mars and Black Ops, with the 780a Destroyer expected soon, having been delayed by a BIOS rewrite, according to Brunning.

The P45 Avenger is apparently still a work in progress, with BIOS debugging being the delaying factor here too, but the 790i Dreadnought has left the building. Brunning confirmed that nobody in the media and certainly no consumers had received any Dreadnoughts. ""
 
Quixote said:
NVidia's AMD chipsets have always been good - this seems to have been forgetten recently because of intel having better CPU's, everyone has focused on socket 775, understandably.
This was/ is still true on NForce 5, & as far as I know the latest Nvidia AMD chipsets are also solid in a way their 775 efforts don't seem to be.
I always wondered why that was - did NVidia never work out how to make good Intel chipsets or were AMD more open with information than Intel ?
If this news is true, I'm not sure it's good news. That would leave AMD & Intel as the only main provider of chipsets on their respective platforms (With VIA & SIS fading out at the moment anyway). Still, I reckon this news is much exaggerated.
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There AMD chipsets are pretty good, I've been playing with a Crosshair 2 with the new Hybrid SLI and its a good solid board, It took a ES Phenom to over 3.3 Ghz I was very impressed any board that lasts longer than a week in my hands is good lol
 
The trouble NVidia have in the chipset business is that anyone who buys an Intel CPU will want an Intel chipset because they have been long since widely regarded as the most stable chipset available.

Nvidia's main customers over the years were probably AMD CPU owners, but for the past few years AMD have been getting an absolute tonking so it will have obviously affected NVidia's sales.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Nvidia's main customers over the years were probably AMD CPU owners, but for the past few years AMD have been getting an absolute tonking so it will have obviously affected NVidia's sales.
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Very good point I hadn't thought of, anyone with an Intel cpu with half a brain gets an Intel chipset-based board :)
 
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