Intel X48 Chipset Launch Slipped Down To March

Suffering a similar fate as the 45nm quad-core processors, the X48 chipset has slipped from an early Q1 release all the way to March, the last month of the first quarter. Although both the chip and the CPUs have been slated for Q1 and no concrete release has been announced they were supposed to arrive, although in small numbers, as soon as the end of January, a target that has been obviously missed.

Whatever the reason, though we suspect the delay of the 3.2 GHz QX9770 to have something to do with this, the 1600 MHz FSB-supporting X48 and motherboards equipped with it will be arriving in March, likely in time to counter Nvidia's nForce 790i products. The bright side is that we get more time to save money for either one.

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Nforce 790i To Be Unveiled In Mid February

Nvidia wants its product to run head to head with Intel.For this Nvidia plans to launch its Nforce 790i DDR3 chipset in the middle of February so as to make its product line ready for the Core 2 Extreme 9770 from day one. Currently Nvidia is only shipping limited numbers of Nforce 780i products and many dislike the fact that this very expensive board only supports DDR2.

The Nforce 790i has two new tricks. It supports DDR3 memory up to 1800MHz speeds and it supports FSB 1600 for the latest generation of Core 2 Extreme quad core CPUs.

This chipset will work just fine with 45nm Core 2 Quad processors and it should launch sometime in the middle of February, together with the GeForce 9600 GT.

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After Nforce 780i Its Time For 790i

Just weeks after Nvidia launches its Nforce 780i chipset, the first chipset to officially support Triple SLI, Nvidia will follow up with its DDR3 chipset with Triple SLI support.

The Nforce 790i is on track for a January announcement and this new chipset will bring two unique features, support for 1,600MHz FSB CPUs such as QX9770 and DDR3 memory.

This will make the Nforce 790i a real competitor to Intel's X48 chipset which is scheduled for an announcement at about the same time. DDR3 is still overpriced, but people like the sound of 1,800 MHz DDR3 speeds, but unfortunately this super high speed doesn’t really translates to real world performance figures.

The Nforce 780i should support 1,600MHz FSB CPUs, but you will have to overclock the board as officially the Nforce 780i as well as the X38 chipsets are not suppose to go over 1,333MHz.

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