Nvidia MCP 73 pixellated

THE FIRST PICTURES of Nvidia's upcoming MCP73-based motherboards have hit the interwibble for all gawping fanboys to clap their eyes upon.

You can check them out here.

MCP 73 is due out in September, and is the little brother of MCP 78, due out in November time. It has integrated graphics in the form of the GeForce 7050 and 7025, which you can basically think of as The Sims-class hardware.

The boards are targeted more at the low end, but the Topstar version on show in these pictures has a few neato features. It only has two slots for RAM and a single PCI-E x16 slot, but it has four SATA ports as well as both VGA and DVI outputs on the backplate - pretty nifty.

Pricing is expected to be at the lower end of the enthusiast mainboard spectrum, as this bad-boy is intended to go head to head with some of Intel's integrated graphics options. Versions will be available both for AM2 and LGA775, but expect the Intel versions to tip up first. The two green teams just ain't that close any more, fellas. µ