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Posted by Tekime on 2006-05-29 06:00:01
Let's put it straight, NVIDIA didn't have to launch a new series of chipsets: there are no plans on upgrading to a new standard of a system or peripheral bus so far. AMD has actually designed processors with DDR2 support. But memory operations in the AMD64 architecture are private affairs of a processor, it does not require any support from a chipset. However, an excellent occasion to nForce 500 (instead of the expected nForce5) was an announcement of a new socket of AMD Athlon 64/FX/X2 models (let's not forget about Sempron) =97 Socket AM2. Of course, motherboards can combine well an nForce 500 chipset with old Socket 939 or, vice versa, VIA K8T800 (ok, K8T890) with Socket AM2. But it seems to me that the new chipsets will mostly be used for the new socket.
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