New Chipset From NVidia
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For those of you who may not have heard, the chipset made by NVidia, features technologies developed at AMD to link the bridges in "Crush" via an LDT bus. Currently Asus, Abit, MSI, Gigabyte en Acer are working on a motherboard for the chipset.
"Crush" as the hardware is named, features a peak bandwidth of 800 Mb/sec and a PCI controller transfered to the South Bridge.
The South Bridge is the MCP-1 already announced by NVidia applied to the X-Box console. It boasts an array of hardware slots including five PCI slots, one ATA-100, 2 USB ports, an Ethernet 10/100 Mbps controller and an AC'97 interface.
"Crush" will first be seen in the GeForce2 MX and later in the NV17.