Nvidia tests PC waters with AMD chipset
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The new Nvidia nForce chipset for AMD Athlon/Duron, announced in June, will make its debut next week in motherboards and desktop PCs, an Nvidia representative said.
A slew of motherboard makers and some smaller PC makers are expected to announce products based on the new chipset. A chipset is a key component inside a PC, a cluster of chips that serves as the go-between for the processor, system memory and input/output devices such as hard drives. More recently, chipsets including the nForce have grown to adopt graphics as well.
Large brand-name PC makers, including Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard, are said to be considering the new chipset for use next year. A Compaq representative, for example, said the company is "evaluating" nForce, but had no immediate product plans for it.
nForce seeks to lure customers by granting moderately priced AMD PCs better overall performance, with much-improved integrated graphics and audio. But the chipset also represents an important strategic move for Nvidia and a potential new ally for AMD on the desktop.
PCs using the chipset will be priced at $900 and up, while motherboards are expected to sell from the "low $100s to the high $100s," depending on configuration of the chipset, the Nvidia representative said.
If you use NTFS your data will be protected and your system will be a bit faster but some strange things may occur.
For example, if you are brave enough to swap your motherboard and change it with another, your system will just halt. It will start to load and fail straight away. You can't even run it under safe mode since it will halt trying to find some files from the SYSTEM32 folder.
All your data will be unavailable since NTFS gives this protection until you reinstall XP system again. To give you idea how painful this is on an AMD Athlon 1400 with 256MB of memory, that's a 45 minute trek at least.
So when you install your XP and want to change your board, get ready to install Windows again.