As they always say, hindsight is 20-20 and you all now know that the launch of NVIDIA’s first chipset wasn’t flawless. It was no less than 3 months after the launch of the chipset at Computex that we saw our first reference board from NVIDIA; it was a matter of several weeks after that before third party boards started appearing on the market, and at extremely high prices. Because of this large gap between the announcement and the shipping date for motherboards, it has only been recently that NVIDIA has garnered any significant OEM design wins based on their nForce chipset.
Because of everything that happened with the original nForce launch, we were quite skeptical when we heard that NVIDIA would be showing off nForce2 at Computex this year. However when we arrived in the humid city of Taipei we caught wind of NVIDIA’s slight change in nForce2 launch strategy; motherboard manufacturers were able to show off all of their nForce2 solutions (and even their CK8 Hammer chipset) but NVIDIA didn’t publicly disclose any details about the chipset. Instead, we were given a look at nForce2 behind closed doors and told not to speak about the specifics until now.
Today
we’re finally able to tell you all about NVIDIA’s second try at
an Athlon chipset – nForce2. But before you get too excited, it will still
be a matter of weeks before we can get our hands on a reference board to actually
benchmark. And in terms of availability, you won’t be able to purchase
nForce2 motherboards until September in all reality. So although NVIDIA has
learned from some of their mistakes, their release schedule is far from perfect.
We’ve complained about this in other chipset reviews as well, but it doesn’t
make sense to officially launch a chipset unless motherboards are available
or will be made available within a matter of a couple of weeks. That’s
how Intel does it and it doesn’t hurt to take a few pages out of the big
blue book every now and then.
Let’s start.
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Cool article, thanks. I want to share my thoughts on this board. Well, NVIDIA's new strategy, which provides for active promotion of its chipsets to the market, change (we would say - bringing it in line with market realities) of the pricing policy and abandonment of the emphasis on integrated graphics, seems to be starting to bear fruit. At least the release of the "first" nForce was not accompanied by such a massive "attack" as the simultaneous appearance of motherboards from six well-known manufacturers. At the same time, the turnaround turned out to be quite sharp: none of the motherboards discussed in this article is equipped with integrated graphics (!), That is, in fact, the success of the chipset depends on the market's reaction to the non-integrated, "classic" version. Of course, later there will be boards with a north bridge in the IGP version with a graphics core based on GeForce4 MX, but the first impression is always the most important, and it will take shape now, when only boards without video on board are available. By the way, I advise you to post your article on Instagram where thousands of NVIDIA fans and opponents can see it. From time to time, I come across posts about various manufacturers of video cards and noticed that on average, such posts gained almost 16 thousand likes! I am sure this is because their authors resorted to using the services of https://viplikes.net/ to quickly wind up the number of subscribers.Aidenclark - Tuesday, June 1, 2021 - link
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