Where are the nVidia based AM3/DDR3 Motherboards?

[kjmcdonald]

Are there any? I'm having trouble finding any.

Even nVidia's supposed AM3 chipset the 980a (reported to be a rebadged 780a) is only available on one board, and that only does DDR2.

So what's the story?

I can't find much of anything on the 980a here on AnandTech, and probably rightly so if it's really a 780a, but I would have expected to see some article or blog about what ever technical issues, or corporate politics are keeping these boards off the market?


-Kyle

 

[Sylvanas]

Well, it looks like Nvidia may be on the way out of the AMD chipset business and judging by their recent, rather poor releases I'd say that's entirely plausible. The AMD chipsets are better in nearly every way at the moment with exception to allowing SLI support and Nv doesn't appear to go going after the platform in any way.

 

[kjmcdonald]

That's sad if true. That article was kind of the thing I expected to see somewhere in the archives here at AnandTech.

I've always been a big fan of both AMD and nVidia - AMD becaue they're the underdog and how on and off they actually manage to put out processors that beat goliath, nVidia because of their early and quality suport for unix like OS's (Linux and Solaris.) So in my mind nVidia was always a better fit for AMD than ATI.

I hope the article is right and there are true AM3/DDR3 MB's in the works, the 980a (I don't care what it's called) - has everything I'm looking for. Then again except for SLI the 790FX isn't far off.

I had read in another forum speculation that issues were being seen getting the 980a to work correctly with DDR3, but there weren't any facts, and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense if the memory controller is in the processor.

So if no nVidia chipsets end up in AM3 MB's, then I hope that nVidia licenses SLI to AMD soon so that at least there is still a choice of GPU on AMD.

-Kyle