NVIDIA company intends to add integrated graphic core in the majority of its new chipsets in order to enable the technology hybrid SLI. Even if speed increase from the association of integrated and discrete graphic cores is small then hybrid power energy-economy technology possesses a completely practical value.
In the second quarter NVIDIA is going to add some chipsets for intel platform using the chipset MCP7A- U and MCP7A- S, supporting DirectX 10 and Hybrid SLI . Today associate reported about additional chipsets series MCP7A.
All chipsets in this series (exception MCP7A- H ) will not support video output from the integrated video core, but they still able to accelerate games using the technology hybrid SLI . Remaining chipsets will get the graphic cores with directX 10.0 support in different speed levels . The most powerful one can accelerate video decoding full HD (1080p), the lest powerful will be limited to 1080i. All those integrated chipsets support HDCP, DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI and RGB. The Majority of chipsets support two digital or two analog (output), and only MCP7A- J posses three digital output .
All chipsets series MCP7A support intel processors with 1333 MHz system bus. The supported memory by chipsets MCP7A- U, MCP7A- S and MCP7A- H is limited to DDR 2-800. Elder chipsets are capable to support DDR- 3 memory . Each chipset support up to 20 lines PCI express (version 2.0) . Only two chipset: MCP7A-SLI and MCP7A-GL support SLI according to PCI express x8 + PCI express x8 .
These chipset have one chip layout, their south bridge possibilities are identical: six ports SATA-300, twelve ports USB 2.0, gigabit net port, support RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 5. Motherboard producers already began to obtain the chipsets models ( revision a01 ), soon this chipset will be updated to revision B1.