The chipset is expected to appear in three variants, the MCP61P, MCP61S and MCP61V. The first two are pitched at mainstream systems, while the V part, as its name suggests, is aimed at the value end of the market. It's anticipated the P and S variants will replace the current GeForce 6100, nForce 430 and nForce 410 chipsets by the Christmas sales season.More info at The Register.
The MCP61P is believed to support a PCI Express x16 slot, two x1 slots, five PCU slots, four 3Gbps SATA ports, two parallel ATA drive links, Gigabit Ethernet, ten USB 2.0 ports, 7.1-channel HD audio, and digital video out. The MCP61S and MCP61V are said to lack digital video out, have just two SATA ports and support 10/100Mbps Ethernet. The S has PCI-E x8 for an optional external graphics card, but the V is integrated-only.
NVIDIA MCP61 chipset to be launched in August?
Posted on Wednesday, July 05 2006 @ 16:26 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck