Friday, April 11th 2008

NVIDIA Promises Powerful sub-$45 Processing Platform

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It all starts with NVIDIA CEO's Jen Hsun-Huang statement "We're going to open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel, which quickly became a synonym for the announcement of NVIDIA and VIA jointly developed low-cost processing platform. During NVIDIA's financial analyst meeting today, the company revealed plans for what it calls "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC". The platform will use a VIA Isaiah C7-M processor coupled with an integrated NVIDIA IGP chipset. NVIDIA reckons that this combo will be good for a total of 36 GFLOPS in comparison to a mere 6.4 GFLOPS for a comparable Celeron-based system with an Intel 945 IGP/ICH4 chipset. NVIDIA also claims that its platform will be Windows Vista Premium capable, support Blu-ray HD and DirectX10, and cost less than $45.
Source: DailyTech

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68 Comments on NVIDIA Promises Powerful sub-$45 Processing Platform

#26
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
VIA chipsets had their good share of problems. So I dont think they make good stuff all the time. They do make some decent stuff, and their procs were decent in the day, though nothing to write home about.
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#27
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
the C7-M is octa? i thought at the most dual when i heard about it awhile aog...man i wish sun made procs that could do more than run nix and solaris.....their sunblade rigs rock 16 and 8core procs FTW!! and they have had them for years sun had multi core rigs much b4 amd was even x64 :( id love a gaming rig made with those
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#28
JrRacinFan
Served 5k and counting ...
So, now we have nVidia pairing with VIA after AMD purchasing ATi, what's next? Intel teaming with S3?
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#29
candle_86
That wouldnt make any sense, Intel and S3 are about as talented as each other with a GPU. As for this its a good idea for the market its going for, low budget HTPC and laptops. Also remember the C7 is the only line of CPU that can run passive
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#30
JrRacinFan
Served 5k and counting ...
IMO, I think it would make perfect sense. Then again, my opinion doesn't count for really much.
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#31
GSG-9
candle_86That wouldnt make any sense, Intel and S3 are about as talented as each other with a GPU. As for this its a good idea for the market its going for, low budget HTPC and laptops. Also remember the C7 is the only line of CPU that can run passive
Im pretty sure you can run a T7200 in passive but I never had a compatible motherboard to try it out.
Edit: Its also not a line of cpus I guess, just the slowest mobile Core 2 Duo.
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#32
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
JrRacinFanIMO, I think it would make perfect sense. Then again, my opinion doesn't count for really much.
now i wouldnt go saying that.
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#33
Esse
candle_86Also remember the C7 is the only line of CPU that can run passive
Intel's D210GLY2 ITX systems can run passive and they are Core 2 Solo Celeron U2200's 1.2GHz and they are were also much faster then VIA's offerings :)
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#34
ShadowFold
My E2200 runs good with no fan running on my AC Freezer.
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#35
Saakki
wow at price ..gonna buy 2 of these if they ever land here :wtf: and singlecore runs vista just..
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#36
AlCabone
candle_86Also remember the C7 is the only line of CPU that can run passive
I'm running my A64 3000+ passive.... overclocked to 2.3Ghz... stock HSF
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#37
Weer
wazzledoozleI wouldnt call anything with a single core vista ready.
That's ridiculous.

My Pentium 4 2.4Ghz runs Vista Ultimate perfectly.
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#38
tkpenalty
WeerThat's ridiculous.

My Pentium 4 2.4Ghz runs Vista Ultimate perfectly.
+1. Vista isn't CPU heavy, its heavy on memory usage.

Hmm.. if its so cheap I think this will make a great HTPC. Just need to make a good case for it though. I hope those boards have mounting holes for aftermarket NB coolers... or hooks. I suppose paired with a cheap HDD + cheap RAM this thing could be a powerhouse for its size. Just need to be able to find PSUs for these; note the 20 pin is NOT the standard 20 pin power header.
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#39
Nitro-Max
Id just like a can of whoop ass!!
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#40
Dangle
Just wait until they start making KICKASS cpus that WTFPWN Intel! WOOOT!
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#41
pt
not a suicide-bomber
5$ amd can put a cheapo sempron and a r600 all in one for cheap that pwn this :)
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#42
Dangle
I Hope NVIDIA and AMD push Intel out of the CPU game
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#43
[I.R.A]_FBi
DangleI Hope NVIDIA and AMD push Intel out of the CPU game
thats impossible ... dont forget atom ...

what is atoms performance like?
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#44
Dangle
I hope they do. They should combine GPU and CPU into one piece with like 5000 cores. would be soOOOOOOO awesome woot!
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#45
Morgoth
Fueled by Sapphire
5000cores overrated and you couldt even pay for it!
btw Intel is combining GPu and Cpu on 1 die for low end cpu's nehalem
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#46
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
Morgoth5000cores overrated and you couldt even pay for it!
btw Intel is combining GPu and Cpu on 1 die for low end cpu's nehalem
ya the amount of cores is only usefull for what they are micricoded to do...i personally think 8 cores are pushing it now...after 8 core i wouldnt upgrade for like years because nothing software wise can use it......the only way a 5k core cpu is usefull is if its coded to process grafx physics and regular commands as well as jump out of the case get me a mountain dew and cover my GF in chocolate.
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#47
Morgoth
Fueled by Sapphire
yep and i do like to see cores reaches 4-10ghz in future (stock)
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#48
[I.R.A]_FBi
Solaris17get me a mountain dew and cover my GF in chocolate.
theres an idea, specially teh latter
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#49
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
[I.R.A]_FBitheres an idea, specially teh latter
i thought it would be fun
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#50
beyond_amusia
Via made this CPU from scratch, and the MMX and SSE crap is actually bulit into the architecture, not just add-on instrutions like AMD and Intel have. It's also x86/x64, so it'll be future proofed. It was also desinged with multi-core in mind, so I assume it will debute as a single core or dual core and expand from there... I'm dying to see how this will perform again my machine... If it out does it, I found my new PC, lol.
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