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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (67385)	1/8/2002 2:28:41 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"It's basically a nForce without integrated graphics. I wonder who will buy this chipset?" It does offer nVidia a chipset that they could lowball to leverage some marketshare without cutting into their graphics chipset business. But even without cutting it's price to the bone, it will have better audio, likely better PCI transfer speed (remember VIA's little "problem"?), and better bandwidth to the drives.

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (67385)	1/8/2002 2:37:10 PM
From: g_w_north	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

ASUS is going to use it in one of their boards. Basically, you have the advantage of the audio, ethernet and bandwidth (HT) and this will allow for a third party video card without the chance of driver issues. From the Register: Asus to re-vamp Nforce A7N266 Cross-bred beastie soon By Mike Magee <mailto:newsdesk@theinquirer.net>, 07/01/2002 11:32:07 BST MOLES NOT A MILLION miles away from Brazil tell the INQUIRER that Asus is set to re-vamp its Nforce based motherboard at the end of the month. According to our information, the mobo will likely be called the A7N266C, and while it will employ the Nforce chipset, have Dolby Digital 5.1 and onboard Ethernet, the onboard graphics will be disabled. While it will still use 128-bit Twinbank DDR memory and the rest, it is intended as a "cost effective" (cheaper) Nforce based board, for those folks who want o plug in a Radeon 8500 or a Geforce Titanium. Now there's a turnup for the books. µ I would presume it is a cheaper version to produce.