Originally posted by: mechBgon
Originally posted by: Necrolezbeast
why exactly would they give you a choice to do that when all it would to is increase the cost of the mobo manufacturing? And also, why would they want you to decrease the performance?
Integrated graphics cores come to mind. Since the integrated graphics need access to system memory too, adding a northbridge might be the lesser of two evils, versus making the CPU spoon-feed the GPU whenever it wants something from memory.
Precisely Mech, that is why Nvidia has a MB with onboard GPU and without. The board without will outperform the board without for exactly that reason. ASUS did it with previous generations, others are just doing it too now.
EDIT - Hey Mech, just as I posted this saw this Posted by Anand and Co from Comdex:
Nvidia unveils K8-supporting single chip
November 22nd, 2002 4:43 PM - Brandon Hill
Source: DigiTimes
Category: News
DigiTimes has some fresh info on NVIDIA's new single chip AMD K8 chipset:
Nvidia?s new K8-supporting chip for the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) platform, the Crush K8, will come as a single chip solution with the AGP controller interface integrated into the south bridge chip (media communications processor, MCP). Nvidia demonstrated the product for the first time to certain customers at Comdex Fall 2002.
With AMD incorporating the formerly north bridge-based memory controller into its upcoming K8 processors, the role of the north bridge chip will become rather limited, Drew Henry, Nvidia?s senior director of platform product management said. As a result, Nvidia decided to include the AGP controller interface in the south bridge to shorten motherboard makers? design time, he added