Posted on Wednesday, November 21 2007 @ 19:10 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The NVIDIA nForce 780i chipset for the Intel platform will be available in December,
DigiTimes reports, but it will still take until January before mass shipments will occur.
The nForce 780 SLI chipset will be available to two forms, the nForce 780i SLI (C72 XE) supporting Intel and nForce 780a SLI (C72 P) supporting AMD, noted the sources.
The nForce 780i will target Intel's X38 chipsets as its major competitor. It will support PCI Express 2.0 and 3-way SLI technology with three PCI Express x16 slots. Motherboard pricing will be around US$200, noted the sources.
With most of the features of the 780i similar to those of the X38 with the added benefit of 3-way SLI, some motherboard makers expect the chipset to have a good chance of performing well in the market. The chipset will also feature Nvidia's ESA (enthusiast system architecture) to monitor the PC hardware status, added the sources
The site also reports DDR3 support from NVIDIA will follow in Q1 2008.
