NVIDIA nForce3 250 To Ship In December?

A source reports NVIDIA’s plans to start shipping its long-awaited nForce3 250 chipset next month. This will be the company’s top core-logic for this year and early 2004 and will also become the firm’s third single-chip mainboard core-logic ever.

. . . The nForce3 250 family of chipsets support AMD 64-bit Socket 940 and Socket 754 processors and is ready to power both high-end AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 FX microprocessors as well as performance-mainstream AMD Athlon 64 chips. The nForce3 250 products are very likely to bring a number of advanced features its predecessor – NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 – lacks, such as 2 Serial ATA-150 ports as well as external 2 Serial ATA-150 PHY support in addition to presently available AGP 8x, PCI, 2 ATA-33/66/100/133 channels with RAID 0,1 and 0+1 support, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, USB 2.0, etc.