Nvidia presents anti-ATI attack to world+dog

TECH POWER UP has filed slides from an Nvidia Pure Video presentation, here. Golly, there's more here from Gruffzilla about Crossfire. Gee whizz and sheesh kebab, now Nvidia is using the INQ to fud up ATI. This is a bloody war, indeed. Has Nvidia not heard of our TH'INQ™ Logo Licensing Scheme?

Asrock has the first Athlon 64 Nvidia integrated motherboard pictured. The socket 754 K8NF4G-SATA2 features the new Geforce 6100 IGP which is the NV44. Good news is that it supports DX9.0 and PS3.0 and should overclock wonderfully, bad news is that it still depends on shared memory. You also get SATA2, RAID, 7.1 audio from Realtek and GbE LAN.

Xbitlabs builds what many would consider to be a geekers wet dream, two AMD Dual Core CPU in a dual processor workstation configuration. They did it! Processor used is a couple of Opteron 275, matched with an Asus K8N-DL and a Quadro FX 4500 graphics card. Performance with supported software is quite stunning. Obviously, you are paying a price for that.

Hothardware shows that life does not revolve only around high end components. As Sean Pelletier reviews the XFX Geforce 6200TC. It comes with a passive cooler which bodes well if you're looking for a silent cooler. Even then they did managed to get to overclock it and guess what, they found it to perform better than the soon to be replaced X300.

Optronix is not a brand that you often hear. PlanetAMD64 is reviewing a motherboard from them, the OP-K9A200G-MLF. It is a socket 939 model with an ATI chipset and IGP using the X300/9600 core. You get all the usual goodies, four SATA ports and four PATA ones, LAN, five PCI slots, 5.1 sound, eight USB ports and Firewire ones. What is peculiar about it is its relatively high price and the fact that it has a sizeable chunk of PCB empty. Also don't count on it for overclocking.

Hardwaresecrets sees the new Sempron 3400+ encroaching its big Brother AMD Athlon 64 territory. The only main difference with the AMD Athlon 64 3200+ which runs at the same speed is the amount of cache - 256kB vs 1024kB. The reviewer compares it to a slew of processors including Athlon XP and 64, a lonely Duron, Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 EE and some Semprons. After a series of benchmark, we can find out that this Sempron outclasses all socket 462 processors, overclocks very well and doesn't cost that much.

Clubic has a roundup of chipsets with integrated graphics. The Radeon XPress 200 as well as two solutions from Intel are tested. No product from VIA or SIS which is obviously a pitty. All this just before Nvidia releases its own integrated solution. Your best choice would probably be to buy the cheapest mobo and stick the cheapest separate graphic card you can find. µ