Does the NForce Mobo's Support P4's?

[The Stigenator]

I dont know if the Nforce chipset supports P4's ... does it or does it not.

I am looking to build a few P4 based Linux workstations for development boxes. Otherwise i ahve to go with the regular P4 mobo..
question is that all i see is that mwave has a lot of P4-533mhz mobo's .. we dont need more than a 1.6A or a 1.8A.. but the 533mhz mobo's the proc's start at 2.0B and all....so whats the deal.

I was going the Nforce way cause i would rather have a geforce for display in linux than an ATI, plus a unifiedboard can keep things small and light.

 

[NFS4]

No. B/C Intel wants to be too stingy/greedy with their licenses:| NVIDIA definitely has the knowledge/knowhow to do it (afterall, the XBox via a PIII on an nForce board).

ALi and SiS are no threats to Intel's chipset market...that's the ONLY reason why they have licenses for the P4. Given the nForce's superior design/features/onboard video, Intel simply doesn't want to get itself embarassed.

One even more perplexing matter is that even ATI has a P4 license...why not NVIDIA? I think Intel is just threatened by NVIDIA aka "Mini Intel"

 

[Snoop]

Why not go with an athlon 1600xp and nforce or preferably nforce 2, instead of a P4? For the same money you could probably bump this up to around an 1800xp, and it will definetaly be upgradable in the future to 2500 or 2600. Save a little money, and no loss in performance. And from my understanding, nvidia develops a fairly good set of linux drivers for the nforce platform already. Nvidia Linux support

 

[Snoop]

No. B/C Intel wants to be too stingy/greedy with their licenses NVIDIA definitely has the knowledge/knowhow to do it (afterall, the XBox via a PIII on an nForce board).

Exactly, I think Intel is a little nervous about the amount of chipset sales Nvidia could take from them, so they are jacking up the licensing costs.

 

[Athlon4all]

nVidia ihas the same problem VIA has, Intel wont give them a licence at a reasonable cost. Such a Shame

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Athlon4all
nVidia ihas the same problem VIA has, Intel wont give them a licence at a reasonable cost. Such a Shame

Can't we all just get along?

I guess it really won't matter once Granite Bay and the consumer Intel DDR platforms get here (though they still will have crappy integrated video).