Nvidia today said that it will offer a specially tailored version of its Nforce 500 chipset for Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo processors. While the success of the Nforce 4 on Intel was very limited Nvidia takes another shot at the next generation platform to open up the massive Intel business, which is pretty much owned by Intel itself an ATI today.

The availability of Nforce 500 series media and communications processors will enable SLI configurations to Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme, which seem to be challenging AMD's Athlon64 processors for the gaming crown. Nvidia said that Nforce 500-based motherboards for Intel Core 2 Duo platforms and Geforce 7950 GX2 (dual-GPU) graphics cards will be available in Dell's XPS 700 gaming system as well as major system builders such as Asus, BFG, Biostar, DFI, ECS, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI and XFX.

News source: tgdaily.com


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by redeemed on 08 Jun 2006 - 10:12
Why it needs a "specially tailored version of its Nforce 500 chipset for Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo processors" is beyond me.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by g0wg on 08 Jun 2006 - 11:04
hmmm ... and when will the Core 2 Duo be released?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Croquant on 08 Jun 2006 - 14:39
What, were you expecting nVidia to NOT support SLI on the new Intel chips?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Internal Storm on 08 Jun 2006 - 15:01
July 23rd for Core Duo 2
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