Nvidia MCP 73 to Launch in September

Nvidia’s MCP 73 chipset family supporting Intel platforms will launch on September 25 this year, according to sources at motherboard makers.

Five versions of the MCP 73 will be introduced, four including an IGP; GeForce 7150 nForce 630i, GeForce 7050 nForce 630i, GeForce 7050 nForce 620i and GeForce 7050 nForce 610i, and a single non-IGP chipset the nForce 630i. The chipsets series will support PCI Express and Intel CPUs ranging from the Core 2 family to Celeron D, noted the sources.

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Past reports have pointed to a trio of MCP73s: two with on-board graphics and one without. The chipsets are again said to support HDMI and HDCP. Previously, what’s now being called the nForce 630i will host up to four 3Gbps SATA drives and a single parallel ATA peripheral. It can run up to ten USB ports and has Gigabit Ethernet on board.

The MCP73 line is expected to be followed later this year by the MCP79, claimed to contain a GeForce 8-class GPU to allow it to support DirectX 10. It too will host HDMI ports and HD resolutions of up to 1080i. It will connect to the CPU over a 1,333MHz FSB.

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