Sweet drivers, a new nForce, and a lesser 7800.

Well the following is verging on nVidia underground but regardless of what you call it, it all sounds like good news, here's a taste of what's to come:
"Our Colleagues at 3D Chipset pulled a nice win in the eternal Leaked Driver Championship - far more interesting than Formula 1 drivers these days. Nvidia has been saying a lot of things about Detonators 80, and now the time has come for people to see the first beta results of nV's efforts. Nvidia stated that Release 80 should fully-enable performance boost on dual-core systems, such as the Pentium D and Athlon 64 X2. Ben de Waal, VP of GPU Software was especially proud of that supposed achievement - such as a 20-30% boost in performance from new drivers alone - of course, in certain apps. Also, a lot of SLI related improvements are due, but for that, go to one of my previous stories But - there are couple of other, more interesting things in the just leaked Release 80.40.

First of all, is of course - the unreleased hardware. The presence of C51 string, and even C51GL string is a witness that upcoming "nForce5" chipsets from Nvidia will have integrated graphics inside, for the first time after nForce2 IGP.

While we're uncertain of the GPU core inside - some of our sources speak of 6200, but could we have a totally cut-down version of 7800 inside - it is more that obvious that professional 3D users will have an opportunity to buy the nForce Professional board with Quadro graphics. And this chipset will be the first integrated chipset for professionals since Silicon Graphics pulled from the market with their 320 series, and that was back in 1999.

Second of all, we have the first G7x derivative. After GeForce 7800GTX, we have G72 and it's professionally flavoured version, G72GL. While we have absolutely no information about the specs, my personal guess is that this is the new "6600", designated for both desktop and workstation space. Number of G72 and G72-related strings also can hide screamin' fast GeForce "7600"? Go and Quadro Go products.

Thirdly, NV48 is still present, so you could argue that NV48 is actually G72 in some variant. When it comes to actual products of NV4x architecture, there is room only for the NV49 (G73? G74?), a lower-end product (6200 successor), and then time comes for NV50 (G80). Lastly, after a lot of FUD from the competition, the new drivers feature support for H.264 encoding on the 7800 series of products. So yes, they do have a working PureVideo processor inside. Yawn.

If you own a 7800 board, this install is the one you want, but as always with unreleased software - you're doing this on your own risk."
From www.theinquirer.net/:good:

 

what, are they making really powerfull intergrated graphics?
wow, i wonder how much that will cost.

 

Sounds like it anyway, the board will probably be easily $200 or more, what's that like 110 quid or something?

 

yea lol, is it intergrated graphics that are matching up to like the x800xt and 6800gt cards?

 

If the sources are correct and the 7600 pans out then yeah, it should be compairable to those cards. And dude, don't hold your breath on this and buy it for UT2k7, there's a chance I, and the sources could very well be wrong and it may come out too late as well.

 

lol, i hope the sources are right, i would be saving a lot of money, if the motherboard is like well £200, it would be well cool, kick ass intergrated graphics matching up to a x800xt graphics card, wow, i hope it comes out in the next like 2 months

 

Yeah, 2 months, I so wish dude, sadly the nForce 4 chipset has only been out for like a year now so I wouldn't hope too hard

 

is this new chip set eventually going ot be called n force 5?

 

That's what it sounds like so that's why I'm thinking we'll have to wait awhile

 

I think the NForce 5 chipset was meant to be nVidias Intel chipset for SLI.

 

Well if that's the case nForce 5 is pretty crappy

 

ah, so i dont have to worry abut being all exited about those intergrated graphics , cos i am going with AMD-64, INTEL is going right outa my windows, i just hope it dont hit the car :\