790i chipset issues: NVIDIA and vendors give their views
Scott Bicheno - 1 Aug 08, 12:00pm
Not NVIDIA’s month
Foxconn announced today that it was not going to continue with the development of its planned Dreadnought motherboard due to issues with the NVIDIA 790i chipset.
Carl Brunning, the UK technical manager at Foxconn, told HEXUS: “The [790i] chip is not of the quality standard that we needed for the Quantum Force range.”
Quantum Force is Foxconn’s relatively recent entry into the enthusiast motherboard space. It has already released the Mars and Black Ops, with the 780a Destroyer expected soon, having been delayed by a BIOS rewrite, according to Brunning.
The P45 Avenger is apparently still a work in progress, with BIOS debugging being the delaying factor here too, but the 790i Dreadnought has left the building. Brunning confirmed that nobody in the media and certainly no consumers had received any Dreadnoughts.
Here's one on show at this year's Computex.
NVIDIA's response
HEXUS.channel spoke to Ben Berraondo, the UK PR manager for NVIDIA to ask for an NVIDIA perspective on this. “Every company that has already released a 790i board isn’t pulling it,” he said. “You’ll have to talk to Foxconn to get the details of their specific case but I doubt it’s just a chipset issue.”
We then spoke to Rui Pereira, channel sales manager at Gigabyte UK. He said: “If we are going to pull our 790i board I have received no confirmation from HQ. As far as I’m concerned the 790i is still on the roadmap.” He did reveal, however, that back at Computex this year, Gigabyte had encountered compatibility issues between the 790i and some Intel CPUs.
Another motherboard maker we were able to speak to was MSI, in the form of product marketing manager Richard Stewart. “We have a 790i board called the P7N2 Diamond out at the moment and it has no reported issues,”he said.
So this appears to be limited to Foxconn for now. It would be interesting to know whether there are any temperature and overall stability related issues with this chipset. We would like to hear from any readers that already have a 790i boards and how they’re finding them. As ever, let us know your experiences in the HEXUS.community. "
Edit: 02Aug08
There is no MSI 790i P7N2 Diamond available at retail. It is not at Newegg, Tigerdirect, nor is it listed at MSI's, "where to buy", retailers.
Fonte VR_Zone
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