NVIDIA MCP73 to be ready by September

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The largely anticipated MCP73 integrated chipset supporting the Intel LGA775 Core 2 Duo/Extreme 1333FSB is pushed back to September.

We saw some of these boards on show during Computex and has been waiting for it. So far, from what we gathered, the earliest we will see it is in September. Chipset comes with integrated GPU supporting PureVideo decoding with HDMI/HDCP support. The drawback is support for only single channel memory and only up to DDR2-667. Other competitors already support Dual Channel DDR2-1066.

Below is a photo of Gigabyte's N73-PVM-S2H, this is a board based on the GeForce 7050-630i chipset for Intel.

Some of the features of the NVDIA 7050-630i chipset includes :

DDR II 677 / 533 Single-CH x 2 Marvel 88E1116 SC PCI Gigabit LAN PHY NVIDIA MCP73 2 x UltraDMA 133 / 100 / 66 4 x Serial ATA (3.0Gb / s) RAID 0, 1, 5, JBOD
Azalia Audio CODEC Thermal Throttling Tech
10 * USB2.0 CPU
HDMI Option
DirectX 9.0C Shader Model 3.0