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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (150292)	11/29/2001 10:43:47 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, Re: "As for the cost structure everyone knew it would be costlier than other solutions." I don't think so. Many people believed that motherboard manufacturers could crank out nForce boards and sell them so that they could show up on pricewatch for $120. However, already we see pricing for the Asus solution. xbitlabs.com Although Asus is one of the more pricey manufacturers, they are quoting $195-$215, which was slightly higher than Pentium 4 boards when they first came out on 6-layer PCBs. nForce boards are already using 4-layers, so the reduction in cost has to come from the nVidia chipset. I imagine a lack of demand will force nVidia to lower these costs significantly, but you can't help but wonder what allowed them to price their chips so high to begin with. It could have been expected popularity, but I think the real reason is that nVidia overdesigned the chip, and made it very expensive. Like I predicted many times in the previous months, nVidia boards would be more expensive than anyone imagined, and they would have instabilities due to nVidia's first shot at a PC chipset. There is nothing wrong with botching up the first try. I had a feeling I would be right about this, but hopefully nVidia does better on their second chipset (and hopefully they get a Pentium 4 license for it, too). wbmw