Intel puts pressure on Taiwan mobo companies about RD600 chipset and NVIDIA's C19 nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition faces uncertain future
The future of Intel Core 2 based chipsets is uncertain right now as
the industry is shaken up by various new business projects, such as the merger
between AMD and ATI.
The word in Taiwan, where I live and run my site TweakTown.com, is that the high-anticipated ATI RD600 Conroe chipset is only
going to be provided by one motherboard manufacturer, DFI. According to my
sources, Intel has been putting pressure on Taiwan motherboard companies not to
produce RD600 based motherboards. DFI stood up to the Intel giant and mentioned
to us that they’ll be the only company providing an RD600 board, the DFI
Lanparty RD600. This seems like a real disappointment for ATI as RD600 was set
to be a bigger seller for the Canadian company with FSB speeds set to reach
480MHz and above – much higher than 975X and the C19 nForce 590 SLI Intel
Edition chipset. DFI’s Lanparty RD600 motherboard will be on shop shelves
sometimes next month but we’re not sure on an exact date yet.
We’ve also been hearing reports about the upcoming nForce 590 SLI
Intel Edition chipset for Core 2 processors. This chipset is based on the now
aging NVIDIA C19 chipset which some Taiwan motherboard manufactures are
not impressed with. In fact, NVIDIA recently issued an announcement to
motherboard companies saying that the C19 chipset will be phased out very soon
and replaced by the newer and more refined C55 chipset in October. The C19
chipset maxes out at around 350MHz FSB which is one of the main reasons the
Taiwanese folk were not impressed with the chipset, especially the companies
interested in producing highly overclockable boards – and that’s most companies
these days. With Intel’s P965 chipset, while not as fast as 975X, we’ve seen
reports of the FSB hitting the 500MHz FSB mark. There are no official testing
numbers on C55 FSB overclocking but being a refined chipset using newer
technology, it is expected to beat the older C19 easily.
New Conroe motherboards using either the RD600 or nForce 590 SLI
Intel Edition were expected this month (as first reported here on TweakTown) but users wanting to move away from Intel chipset solutions will
need to wait another few weeks for these boards to be ready, possibly longer as
BIOS’s are tweaked.
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