It's a known fact that Intel makes the best chipsets for
their own processors. No one else has been able to offer the same combination
of speed and reliability of Intel chipsets. However all that could be about to
change with the release of nVidia's new chipset dubbed nForce 590 SLi Intel
edition. nVidia's last stab at making chipsets for Intel CPUs was with
the nForce 4 chipset, and to be honest they didn't have much success with it.
Appalling overclocking capabilities and stability issues were only some of the
problems that the chipset was plagued with.
This time round, it seems that nVidia may have a winner. The chipset is aimed
to compete with Intel's latest offering - the top of the line 975X chipset. The
975X has been around for a few months now and most of the bugs have been ironed
out. However previews of the nForce 590 look promising. There are no boards at
present which utilise the new chipset, but fortunately AnandTech have been able
to run a few tests on a pre release reference board. The chipset supports all
previous Intel LGA775 CPUs and is reported to support the upcoming range of
Core 2 Duo CPUs.
We'll keep you updated and will hopefully be able to torture a sample pretty soon, so stay tuned!!
The full preview can be read over at AnandTech.
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