I had the news a few dyas, but didn't feel like posting
The new chipset from Nvidia is a welcome in AMD plateform, as the value catagory of AMD CPU, which included semprons & athlon 64 2800+ based on socket 754 is dominated by SiS 756 chipet, but they are directX 7 class only, this will atleast let the people play games casually in a better way
The GPU has purevideo decoding capability, which a for the first time in any onbaord GPu, other then Via EPIA Mini-ITX which has capability of decoding mpeg-2
it will be a boon for those who are making low cost AMD casual home PCs or cyber cafe PCs or HTPC, as the onboard gfx will be very helpful, combined with Intel HD Audio, upto 7.1 channel support, now thats something which can rival upto audigy 2 level,& better then Live series
with a low cost Micro-ATX motherboard having no PCI-E slot at all, Amd Sempron 64 bit 2800+ socket 754, this can bring the cost of AMD PCs really down, as one of the reason, for the low adoptation of Athlon64 here in india is that it requires an immidiate investment in AGP/PCI-E based GPU, with this people will have an option to go for really good "Quality" graphics with options to update later. After all the name "Nvidia" is famous these days here
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